Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. To achieve this, March of Dimes and Forum One worked together to develop Compass by March of Dimes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! What is Human Centered Design? Technique #1: Rose, Bud, Thorn (Understanding). What was your experience?

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Hispanic history is American history. While the nation has dedicated a month to shine a spotlight on these historical people, their accomplishments and significance should be celebrated every day. They are still making history. Jean-Michel Basquiat – Renowned artist of Neo-expressionism. Get Involved!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Went on to do what put them in the history books. The stories offer some perspective on what young people are experience now. Dilenschneider Today, Dilenschneider shares these added insights with us: Question: How many of the 25 people you profiled in your book were on your original list of landmark figures you planned to profile?

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MARCH 25, 2024

These events help unite people for a cause through the power of music. Many benefit concerts become annual events or make history for their cause. These concerts allow your donors to engage with your mission and other people who support your cause, keeping them involved with your nonprofit. Inspiration.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 4, 2024

Some common segmentation criteria for mobilizing support include: Previous engagement with your organization Specific causes they’re most passionate about Volunteering history Demographics Location Previous advocacy campaign participation Pick your segmentation criteria based on the goal of each message and your campaign in general.

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Qgiv

JULY 28, 2022

Because people are often more engaged with causes during their related awareness months. January has a few designations as an awareness month. 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.

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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. While it is not easy to ask directly "what do you think about XX people?"

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH), we've started experimenting with a "community first" approach to program development. C3 invites people to cross-pollinate and share ideas--the most promising of which we will follow up on to plan new programs. We made people write things down constantly.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

If you design interactives for kids, adults recognize that the experience is not for them, and they don't engage. There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. People of all ages are sensitive to the messages that design sends.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. If you want people to write and/or draw, encourage them to draw. If you don't need them, dump 'em.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

People donate and volunteer because of a history, an affinity, or a relationship with a nonprofit. To maintain donor confidence in the act of giving, donors need to be sure that their donation will be delivered to the nonprofit they designated and in a reasonable amount of time. Principles for Responsible Crowdfunding.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2014

At the 2013 American Alliance of Museums annual conference, a group of exhibition designers explored authenticity in a session called Is it Real? While many of their examples came from history and natural science, one of my favorite examples is from art. Many artists work with assistants and reproducing processes.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

You can even prime it with famous people – write our guide like Abraham Lincoln or Dalai Lama. These models are presently built on snapshots of internet data and aren’t designed to be research assistants. These histories can be built on but there is a risk they begin to drift from the original prompt and even forget key elements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

I’ve been busy interviewing people who work for nonprofits for my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit : Strategies for Impact without Burnout, with Aliza Sherman. The camp was co-designed by Beck Tench , a designer and brilliant thinker about creating space for creativity.

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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). Dive into co-creative project design. 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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

One that has found remarkable success is California’s Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests. The impact was dramatic.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

She is a lifelong artist, and was a therapist working in psychiatric hospitals before she made the leap into advertising (long story). Lisa Sonora Beam, The Creative Entrepreneur: How I Have Fun, Do Good Buy art from artists. One of the most fun ways to do good is to buy art and hand crafts directly from artists and artisans.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Research libraries have been facing daunting challenges in the digital world, but not everything is digital in research and the library really wants to connect people with the curators and staff that can help them. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

But not enough people care about it anymore, and the museum is fading into disrepair. The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. What do you do?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).

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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. There was a small, dedicated group of people who knew and loved the museum, and then a larger community that barely knew we existed. At the same time, our community relevance was limited.

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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. People wanted a fire festival, so we did a fire festival. were shamelessly resourceful.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

And this works pretty well in science museums, where designers talk about "hardening" exhibits to withstand the more aggressive touchers among us. At the museum of art and history where I work, we are grappling with the question of how to help people enjoy themselves while keeping the art and artifacts safe.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Experiences: People love getting to do something unique, interesting, and valuable, even more than they like “things.” History: Simply being around a long time has some cachet and may mean you have access to historical wisdom, knowledge, and records. Membership cards: Some people like being card-carrying members of a group.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 12, 2012

This is a picture of the largest temporary exhibition gallery in the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We're also curious to see if an evolving project draws people to come back again and again to see how it grows over time. Our next exhibition is opening in here in two days. Needless to say, this is a scary thing.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

The Lake Wales History Museum recently hosted an online auction dedicated to vintage furniture. Consider hosting a pet-themed auction where people can not only show off their pet on camera but also find some cool items that they wouldn’t be able to get otherwise. Plus, you’ll provide artists with some much needed recognition.

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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. It is a group of people connected by something shared.

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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

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. In the next month, this blog will feature guest posts from a few of the people behind these innovative, quirky institutions, but in the meantime, here's a short list of six of my favorites to explore. Skill-sharing free schools.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

That's all fabulous, but it's also all by design. And when I think back on the past year, some of the most magical things that have happened at the museum have NOT been designed by us. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible. The magic isn't by design.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

day adventure in which teams of adults--75 people, of whom about half are museum professionals, half creative folks of various stripes--developed an experimental exhibition around our permanent collection in our largest gallery. People talked about the camp as Project Runway for museums.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2015

INTERNSHIPS If you want to join us in Santa Cruz for more professional learning, consider an internship at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We''re offering internships this summer in: Participatory Exhibition Design. A great opportunity for folks interested in design, fabrication, prototyping, and interactivity.

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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. Studying engineering taught me to think like a designer: state the problem, brainstorm, test, iterate.

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