Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

In my experience, innovation is about flexibility, capacity, and collaborative relationships. Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. That said, the fact that we work with contemporary artists can also create a lot of stress in our institutional systems.

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Arts Interview Teen Artist 46

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

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." In the Zingerman's model, visioning is for everyone at all levels of the organization. It's a story written from the vantage point of a few months or years from now.

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History Pennsylvania Michigan Indiana 26

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. Develop collaborations and programs, keeping in mind what you have learned. Often, organizations adopt a service model that is strictly needs-based. It's pretty simple.

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Teen Museum Voice Collaboration 20

Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Pet Adoption Events Collaborate with local animal shelters for pet adoption events where a portion of adoption fees goes to your cause. You can either use a pay-to-enter model or turn it into a bit more of a gamble, where participants get a basket of eggs that may or may not contain a valuable prize.

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Ideas Fundraising Movie Classes 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You can collaborate with other nonprofits in your region or in your issue area to investigate whether you can all offer benefits for each other. This can include the history of the organization, testimonials, ways to access important documents or files held by the nonprofit, stories of impact, personalized swag, and a welcome letter, or more.

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Donor Sponsor Accessibility Music 343

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

These teens are actively involved what Jenkins calls "participatory culture" - a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating and sharing one's creations, and some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices.

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Participatory Teen Vlog Mashup 50

Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. Everyone is entitled to art in their life.

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Artist Digital Arts San Francisco 40

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

What we do here in Oakland, and throughout the Bay Area, is we work with inner city companies that not only have a scalable model, but also have a social responsibility aspect built into their business model. They capture the negative stories of the inner city. That's a very long story. I love their stories.

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Oakland San Francisco Companies Business 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

They're investigating how short, 140-character contributions can build upon each other to create a non-linear narrative – like a Choose Your Own Adventure story or a game of Consequences. The story is line is being summarized regularly on the blog. Just tweet your line of the story to @youropera. Pick the Right Model.

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Analysis Music San Francisco Mashup 88

Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2008

Pandora uses collaborative filtering to create a real-time radio station for you based on your preferences. You enter a seed artist or song (or several) and Pandora starts playing music that it interprets as related in some way to your selections. It doesn’t just group artists together and play music by similar musicians.

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Collaboration Music Museum Articulate 20

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And that might involve collaboration, saying, “We acknowledge that there are others in the community that do this better or more effectively. So look at the fact, are you creating and using an evidence-based program model? So, if your program has an evidence-based model, and I’m not just saying. ” So what?

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Report Measure Impact Process 78

Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

The Vermont Women’s Fund focuses their grantmaking on supporting women and girls on pathways to economic well-being, including career development, an area highlighted by the research of their initiative, Change The Story. Areas served: Vermont. eWomen Foundation. Areas served: Native organizations only. Mary’s Pence. Areas served: Kentucky.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 104

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The Vermont Women’s Fund focuses their grantmaking on supporting women and girls on pathways to economic well-being, including career development, an area highlighted by the research of their initiative, Change The Story. Areas served: Vermont. eWomen Foundation. Areas served: Native organizations only. Mary’s Pence. Areas served: Kentucky.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 79

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. The key is breaking down the tasks into bite-size pieces and engaging crowds in the process.

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

"To us, it's really about collaboration. They shared stories from their experience there, and talked about how they are trying to do development and social change work differently. This was a collaboration among several organizations, A Single Drop, Crabgrass, ProNet Accra, and Women's Earth Alliance.

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Director Ghana Africa North America 40

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Favianna Rodriguez Activist printmaker and digital artist. One Mango Tree uses a fair trade model to provideincome generating opportunities for women artisans inimpoverished and conflict-ridden areas of the globe. Naomi Natale Founding Artist, One Million Bones. Halle Butvin Founder and Director, One Mango Tree.

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Change Podcast Sudan Interview 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail Note from Beth: In 1993, I worked as the "network weaver" for an online network for individual artists called "Arts Wire" where I facilitated online conversations, provided technology support and training. The envisioned twenty-first-century model, however, is more level. Collaborator.

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Museum Arts Artist Conservancy 82

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

It seemed to be a really good and sustainable model, and we raised around $300,000 doing that kind of work. The other thing that Off the Mat, Into the World does is that we create and model our own outreach projects, but on a grander scale. I know in my heart I cannot get fixated on the story, I have to experience the soul.

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Interview Cambodia Children Uganda 46

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now. It's all about collaboration. I don't think we learn very much about collaboration in our culture. How to have relationships. Look at us, how creative we are.

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Arts Podcast Action Interview 40