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How We Doubled Attendance in a Year: One More Post about How Events Changed Our Attendance

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But we've just compiled all our attendance data for the past year at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (our fiscal year ends on June 30), and several people have written to me asking for the numbers behind our turnaround. A big festival with 50 collaborators and 1,000 visitors might rate a $250 budget.

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Which New Audiences? A Great Washington Post Article and its Implications about Age, Income, and Race

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One that has found remarkable success is California’s Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Audiences of all backgrounds found ways to connect with museums as it presented exhibitions with the help of foster youth, migrant farmers, roller-derby girls, mushroom hunters, surfers and incarcerated artists, among others.

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Diversity in Design: Inclusion Won’t Fix a Broken System

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We read articles mapping out the “perfect face” according to the Greek ratio of Phi but we never question why Greek history is the arbiter of truth in many cases when much of Greek philosophy was stolen from Egypt. When we take a look at design history, we quickly start to see how whiteness relates to the rule setters and power holders. .

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Online Auctions for Nonprofits: Ideas for 2021 and Beyond

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Auctions are a classic fundraising event that can not only raise an impressive amount of money but also provide your supporters with a much needed night of fun. The Lake Wales History Museum recently hosted an online auction dedicated to vintage furniture. Plus, you’ll provide artists with some much needed recognition.

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Memo from the Revolution: Six Things I've Learned from our Institutional Transformation

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Over the past two years, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has undergone a significant transformation of program, audience, and resources. Our revolution is predicated on three big ideas: Art and history are something you do, not just something you learn about. More money. You can download all the slides here.

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21 Strategic Lessons for Creating Great Nonprofit Games

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A dynamic design team will include developers, designers, artists, strategists, community builders, researchers, and studies on the success or impact created through gameplay. (MB, Macon Money is one example of a game that creates an alternative currency for real world exchanges in the physical world, similar to economic stimulus. (BS).

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What's Your Vision?

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A cheerful curly-haired deli owner stands in front of 30 of us and shares a quote he loves: "Artists live in the present and write detailed histories of the future." A vision is a detailed history of the future. This is a detailed history from the future. WHAT IS A VISION? A vision is not a solution to a problem.

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