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Next Level Donor Relations: Make The Experience “Unexpectedly Pleasurable”

Bloomerang

To spark conversation, have different questions on board members’ name tags such as “Ask me about our new kid’s program, Jumpstart.” Customized artwork Collaborate with local artists to create custom artwork inspired by your cause. This can be done in a format combination of video, photography, and memorabilia.

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Boost Your Nonprofit’s Impact: 10 Power-Packed Summer Fundraising Ideas for 2023

The Modern Nonprofit

Artists’ Showcase A creative way to engage your community and raise funds is by hosting an artists’ showcase, where local artists can sell their work, and a percentage of the sales go toward your organization. Be mindful of costs associated with venue rental, marketing, and staffing for the event.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. Artist Blogs. s Blog about?

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Guest Post: A Tale of Two University Museums

Museum 2.0

The Siskind Center gives students and the public the opportunity to pore over the photography in the Museum's large collection of works on paper. We artists and designers love our cheese-cube-and-wine-fueled Gallery Nights and those should stay. Tags: design guestpost comfort.

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Users active in online social environments based on social objects like Flickr (photography), Ravelry (knitting), and Wikipedia (information) often trend older. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 The program operates like a camp that is co-led by the teens involved. Museums are not in the business of giving anyone who wants one a soapbox.

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Brooklyn Clicks with the Crowd: What Makes a Smart Mob?

Museum 2.0

They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.

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Interview with Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein

Museum 2.0

The real show in the museum was a series of canvasses showing tags--graffiti--and the curator and education department installed a wall in the middle of the gallery so that visitors could tag (we provided colored pencils, and people brought their own markers and stickers). We’re very clear about our photography policy everywhere.

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