Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Your work behind the scenes is to establish a structure—plans, systems and processes—by which the nonprofit may reach its advancement goals. Consider the services, products, or experiences that your organization could offer to generate revenue. Organized recordkeeping is key. Do you serve K-12 students? The BIPOC or LGBTQ communities?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Structural barriers to success The nonprofit sector is highly competitive, with organizations often competing for the same limited resources. Two individuals living in the same city, but from two different minority/majority communities, can experience the same town in two remarkably different ways.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Experiment with different phrasings, keywords, and other factors to fine-tune your approach. Here are couple of our favorite variables: Experiment with temperature : Adjust the ‘temperature’ setting in the AI model. You can even prime it with famous people – write our guide like Abraham Lincoln or Dalai Lama.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

What were structures in places at the time? . To look at design’s diversity problem without discussing current and former power structures is to ignore the root causes and only treat the symptoms. By stripping away extra details and embellishments, we ultimately create the ideal user experience. But At What Cost?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Press Here is a "normal" book that uses book-ish tools--pacing, spatial arrangement of images on the page, text as instruction--to break the fourth wall and create an interactive experience. Novak''s book uses the basic structure of reading aloud to subject the reader (presumably an adult) to proclaim ridiculous things about him/herself.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Is it only used by people with artistic talents and graphic design skills? Anyone can be a designer! His response: Looking: Observing human experience. Using structured brainstorming methods can lead to innovative ideas for nonprofit programs, platforms, and strategies in any area. What was your experience?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

Stacey has been collaborating with local artists to produce a series of content-rich events that invite visitors to participate in a range of hands-on activities. Instead, Stacey thought, why not make the feedback experience an activity unto itself? Instead, Stacey thought, why not make the feedback experience an activity unto itself?

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

With that in mind, Zero1's community engagement manager Danielle Siembieda-Gribben organized HackFlux : a weekend hackathon bringing together a mix of coders, developers, designers, artists, and thinkers this past June. To have in place the starting point for an app to create a seamless visitor experience at the biennial.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Visitors' interactions allow them both to personalize their museum experiences and to engage with other visitors through their shared interests. From 2006-2011, I focused almost entirely on #1 and #2, playing with ways to invite visitors to actively participate with professionals to co-create powerful experiences around museum objects.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2019

Last week, I talked a bit about the structural issues inherent in our systems and how they may play a part in our access issues. If your recent interest in an underserved group will be unwelcome if it comes “coincidentally” when you have an exhibition by an artist of that same group. People might not want an educational experience.

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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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

OdysseyWorks is a collective that makes immersive art experiences for one person at a time. And then, based on their research, they remake the world for a weekend, twisting the person's environment with sensory experiences that explore and challenge their deepest inclinations. The whole experience was kind of a deconstruction of form.

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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. We had about thirty participants ranging from MAH trustees to artists, educators to architects, moms to grandfathers. It was an evening meeting with beer and chips.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

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). Beck talks about this in the context of learning to play music as a young artist. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I'm personally most excited about the two types of interns who will be reporting to me: Community Research interns, who will start developing a methodology for us to use to understand how people in Santa Cruz connect with arts and culture experiences and what role the museum can play in satisfying their interests.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Also, on a personal level, I had this really powerful experience with my mother in a Storycorps booth in Grand Central years ago that had a profound impact on me. We had participants who loved the experience, but the watchers were really lukewarm about the results. She had revealed things I’d never known, and I kept coming back to it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

Creating a sustainable engagement platform within your existing structure takes time, creativity and dedication. Lina Srivastava is a strategist who works with nonprofit organizations, artists, filmmakers, activists and for-profits to focus on strategy, communication, design and media engagement to create social change.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. That’s why we partner with fire sculptors, knitters, graffiti artists, and bonsai growers. They are artists whose experience deserves a home in our institution alongside painters, photographers, and sculptors.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

As one African-American artist on a prominent museum board told me, "I felt even more tokenized than if I had been part of some kind of Artists'' Council or African-American Council." We''re hearing good things from C3 members about the value they are getting from the experience.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Laura’s experience working at and serving on the board of multiple arts organizations around the country shape her insights into the nonprofit community. Good signage can help with this (no one enjoys feeling confused or lost), but nothing is more important than an easy and pleasant experience at the front desk. Met the artist?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

I agree with Adin that accomplishing a valuable discourse online can be challenging – but all the more reason to start experimenting now. Crowd-funding New Ideas: Funding platforms for artists, musicians, and inventors: Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. Crowd-based funding for projects – such as Global Giving and Donors Choose.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. We have prioritized opening up to as many partners as possible through collaborative structures that scale.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Also, on a personal level, I had this really powerful experience with my mother in a Storycorps booth in Grand Central years ago that had a profound impact on me. We had participants who loved the experience, but the watchers were really lukewarm about the results. She had revealed things I’d never known, and I kept coming back to it.

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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.” Sometimes a nonprofit has access to world-class chefs, celebrities, artists, or architects or well-known lawmakers. Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? Access to a virtual VIP lounge.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

If new programs are sufficiently different from the traditional ones, they may be more effective as standalone program tracks than as gateways to the traditional experience. This "parallel" strategy even applies to experiments in new forms of gallery interpretation. It's the easiest way to get new experiments started.

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Candid

APRIL 17, 2024

But in the wake of the pandemic, the “Great Resignation,” and waves of burnout , more nonprofits may be adopting co-leadership models as they experiment with new ways of working, sharing power, centering BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) leaders, and planning for succession. What is co-leadership?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

She doesn't have a specific idea for a partner event or exhibit, but she feels like we have a lot to offer each other in terms of publicity and a shared focus on enhancing cultural experiences in the community. And she wants to do it now--in the next two weeks. I want to say yes. In fact, I do say yes. What will we harden into?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

How might we experiment with organizational restructuring or deconstructing? These dinner parties would inform the rest of the foundation’s funding by serving as an incubator to spark and experiment with new ideas. What has your experience been? How might we be complicit in preserving power or dispersing it? Thanks everyone!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The VSA has replaced their keynotes with structured group dialogue. But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. But will the conversations improve the overall experience?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

Unlike startups and rock stars, museums aren't structured to shoot for the moon and burn up trying. Their mission statement is: "Machine Project exists to encourage heroic experiments of the gracefully over-ambitious." This is the model that governs most businesses and artistic endeavors. They're made to plod along.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. I wanted the details of the residency to be shaped by the people who got involved with it, so it needed a structure with an edge that could be pushed against in different directions.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

First, we realized that our museum is different from other museums, but our benefits and membership structure were the same as others. We wanted to find a way to really connect with our members and understand what experiences they value most at the Whitney. and that solitary experience person might be 20 or they might be 80.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

This week, an interview with Brooklyn Museum 1stfans managers Will Cary (membership) and Shelley Bernstein (technology) and artist An Xiao. So you weren't targeting "Brooklyn artists" or some other demographic group. T he Twitter Art Feed features a new artist every month. How are you selecting and rewarding these artists?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

Like many people who've worked in science centers and interactive experience museums, I've always been perplexed by the fact that hands-on workshop audiences top out around age 14. Most hackerspaces have very transparent legal structures and operate on a consensus model. This isn't just a geek thing. They're organized around members.

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M+R

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In recent years, we have seen artists like Beyoncé and U2 experiment with new ways to launch music. For nonprofits, we find our clients often feel pressured to stick to tried-and-true structures or routines that they know will work. She showed that sometimes it is okay to drop the formalities.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. I frankly think this is ridiculous.

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