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49 Online Fundraising Ideas to Help You Raise More

Qgiv

Make sure to advertise your artists and makers on your social media platforms leading up to the opening of your shop with photos and videos. Virtual tours for museums. Your local museums may not be open for admission, but that doesn’t mean you can’t explore all they have to offer. Sports tricks contest. Student art show.

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Month at the Museum, Part 1: A Video Contest that Delivers

Museum 2.0

On October 20, a young woman named Kate will move into Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and live there for a month. This post is not about the Month at the Museum concept or implementation. Instead, this post focuses on a fascinating aspect of Month at the Museum: the video applications. That will come later.

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Arts 2.0: Brooklyn Museum Click Exhibit Results: It's not a contest, it's a study in curation of the crowds.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In April, I taught a social media workshop for artists and arts nonprofits and did some research. The Brooklyn Museum kept coming up as a stellar example, particularly its Click Exhibition , an experiment in crowd-sourced exhibits. I'm also interested about how the museum approach the issue of moderating or not.

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37 Spring Fundraising Ideas for Small Nonprofits

Whole Whale

This is an amazing April Fool’s idea from the Frederic Remington Art Museum : Their annual April Fool’s Day Ball invites users to contribute at normal event-pricing tiers (attendance, attendance + pre-party, attendance + after-party), but then not show up. Offer to highlight the winners on your social channels. BBQ for Good. The Michael J.

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Machinima Festival and NTC Video Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Museum of the Moving Image is hosting the 2006 Machinima Festival this weekend in NYC. Moderator: Carl Goodman (Deputy Director and Director of Digital Media, Museum of the Moving Image). Chris Burke is winner of Save the Net viral video contest - check out the video here. If I was going, I wouldn't miss this panel.

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Online Auctions for Nonprofits: Ideas for 2021 and Beyond

Qgiv

The Lake Wales History Museum recently hosted an online auction dedicated to vintage furniture. Do you have any local artists in your area or artistic, passionate supporters in your donor base? Plus, you’ll provide artists with some much needed recognition. The team that wins the trivia contest can win a special prize!

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Across the museum field, the questions about visitor participation have gone from "what?" Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. and "why?" to "how?".