Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Field Museum Store offers gifts for those interested in science and cultural, natural, and human history. Proceeds benefit First Book, a nonprofit that provides new books and educational resources to schools and programs in low-income communities. 8) First Book Marketplace :: fbmarketplace.org. 10) Getty Store :: shop.getty.edu.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2014

This week, I''m celebrating three years on the job as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. In three years, our attendance has tripled, we''ve built a solid financial footing, and our involvement in the community has increased. This spring marked a big conceptual shift for me and the museum.

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Qgiv

JULY 28, 2022

February is Black History Month. Black History Month is a month that celebrates the achievements of African Americans and the struggles they’ve faced throughout U.S. Nonprofits that benefit African Americans or were founded by African Americans should consider fundraising during Black History Month. June is Pride Month.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

As of May 2, I will be the executive director of the Museum of Art & History at McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, CA (here's the press release ). Because of the increased workload I expect in the months to come, as well as the likely possibility that we will start a Museum of Art & History blog, I'm lowering my Museum 2.0

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MARCH 28, 2012

How do you develop programs that are responsive to your community in a meaningful way? How do you find out what's important to different communities, and how do you change your plans based on their needs? So we've started a new committee called C3--the Creative Community Committee. Six goals for MAH community programs.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Since then, Stacey has become an indispensable member of our staff, leading our community programs and inspiring us to think in new ways about how we can build social capital in our community. I chose to focus my thesis on Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2017

This is the ninth in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. Working with creative people taught me to think like an artist: observe, explore, dive in, look out. We develop the ideas.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2018

The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History keeps growing and experimenting in our quest to build a stronger, more connected community. We have several jobs open right now , but I want to highlight two for people with passion for building community in new ways. Here's the full description and how to apply.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. They talked about community building.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

Yesterday, I learned about the Silk Mill, a British historic site that is going through a dramatic community-driven reinvention. The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. And perhaps most ambitiously, they see it as a community-based project. What do you do?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

What role does design play in TWLOHA’s history and present-day work? Obviously the funds from the sales of these shirts will go toward connecting people to mental health resources in their own communities, but also the shirts themselves remind people that they’re loved and that their lives are important.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2017

The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History keeps growing and experimenting in our quest to build a stronger, more connected community. The Exhibitions Catalyst will lead the way in bringing together artists and diverse partners in the development of powerful exhibitions. We are dreaming big, reaching out, and going deep.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations. Each month we work with 50-100 individuals to co-produce our community programs. Every time we collaborate, we learn new ways to improve our process, organization and communication.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

What''s the best way to get formal input from diverse community members? I''ve mostly seen museums employ one of two methods for formal community advisors: Create special "spots" on the board of trustees for certain kinds of community representatives. PRO: gets diverse community members in positions of real authority.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

These histories can be built on but there is a risk they begin to drift from the original prompt and even forget key elements. This is where we think the magic really is in developing models that able to reliably creating unique first draft content. Start from scratch : some interfaces like ChatGPT allow for long threaded chats.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It was a local history urban scavenger hunt that sent teams of 2-5 people out into the city to track down as many historic checkpoints as they could over the course of an evening. We saw Race Through Time as an opportunity to share our mission around engaging with history with a new and highly desirable audience of young professionals.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Do you dream of a summer filled with learning, community engagement, and sea lions? This summer, we''re offering some amazing museum internships, as well as MuseumCamp : a weekend-long professional development experience that is part retreat, part conference, part summer camp. Community Engagement. Community Programs.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Dear friends, We're about a month from the deadline to apply for MuseumCamp 2017 at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). A month before MuseumCamp, the MAH is opening a new exhibition, Lost Childhoods , co-developed with foster youth, youth advocates, and artists in our community.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The 5 key points from “Ogilvy on Advertising” Do your homework – Study the product, its competitors, and research consumers’ views before developing advertising. Participation builds loyalty and community. The goal is to develop sustained relationships through habitual positive exposures. Apply those lessons.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

The Lake Wales History Museum recently hosted an online auction dedicated to vintage furniture. Virtual Community Market Themed Auction. For a more collaborative online auction idea, you might want to throw a virtual community market. You never know what treasures your community members have right at home!

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it. Every Saturday, the curatorial team at Elsewhere , a living museum in downtown Greensboro, NC, reviews the project proposals of its artists-in-residence.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Dreaming of a summer filled with learning, community engagement, and sea lions? This is the last week to apply for MuseumCamp 2014 , a professional development experience in which diverse people from the arts, community activism, and social services will measure the immeasurable together. Community Engagement internship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

They also created a website that serves up clips from the film, plus a wealth of supporting information backing up the provocative claims contained in the movie and myriad ways for citizens to get involved in their own communities. But that is only the jumping off point for the inquiry.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

We wanted to share with people, in as clear and transparent a format as possible, our approach to developing exhibitions. In particular, we want exhibition collaborators--artists, researchers, historians, collectors--to understand our goals and how we intend to steer the exhibition development process.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

It strengthens your community. MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. We encouraged teams to think like artists, not researchers. It changes kids'' lives.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2013

The weather is hopefully the least of the reasons you should want to come work with us here at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We have five open positions in Community Programs and one in Exhibitions. Participatory Performing Artist-in-Residence program. Museum of Art and History Quick Hits'

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

We'll share some interesting apps developed for arts. organizations, but also some insights into the development process and lessons that these organizations learned. This was a great way for the students to contribute to their community. and to get practical, hands-on app development experience. They also have some.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

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. The busiest day in both 2011 and 2012 is our longtime community program, Free First Friday.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

At my museum, we pride ourselves on developing programming in a collaborative way that emphasizes diversity and intentionally encourages social bridging by bringing people together from different walks of life around cultural experience. But how do we know whether these efforts are working?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

It's my second week as the Executive Director at The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz, CA, and boy is my everything tired. I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. Here is our statement.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2013

This week, the Santa Cruz Weekly's cover story is about my museum (the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ) and the work we have done to make it a more participatory, community-centered place over the past two years. Perry describes me as the "conductor" of a community-programmed orchestra.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

Over the past two years, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has undergone a significant transformation of program, audience, and resources. At the same time, our community relevance was limited. There was a small, dedicated group of people who knew and loved the museum, and then a larger community that barely knew we existed.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Involvement from the curators and staff to develop 100 quests that the public could participate in on the night of the 20th. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. When we first started babycastles, we had no idea there was any kind of community in NY for it.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We've gotten a little more organized at The Museum of Art & History , and we've now released opportunities for summer internships. These are unpaid part-time and full-time opportunities to help design public programs, develop new uses for the museum, perform visitor research, and pursue unusual projects.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

After our last Nonprofits Live event on gaming, our social media team received many questions and requests — many of you in the TechSoup community are excited about the future of creating games for nonprofit causes! community. (BJ). TechSoup community can save 10% with the code TECHSOUP here: [link]. How to Design.

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