Museum 2.0

APRIL 9, 2014

Grant proposals. For many arts/museum professionals, writing text in 100-word chunks is a daily activity. There are great references for better art writing, but we don''t always use them. Then I started using it for chunks of grant proposals. Exhibit labels. Promotional text. Word counts matter there too.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2011

She is also a Penn student and a current Top 15 National Finalist for the Washington Campus Compact's Students in Service Awards , as well as the winner of a DoSomething Grant. June 1-22: My Juicy Blogging E-course: The Art and Play of Blogging for Artists, Writers, Creative Entrepreneurs and Do-Gooders.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. We’re here to talk about how to build a better grant strategy in this post-COVID, to the extent that we are post-COVID world. Rachel: Mm-hmm.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Army Traumatic Brain Injury Program, developing the Army’s brain injury prevention and treatment strategies for soldiers . Her career has been dedicated to connecting people and places through performing arts . Previously served as deputy director of the U.S. Bernard Mauricia. Oncology and Kids. San Francisco Ballet.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2014

Personally, I’ve been on the inside, wracking my brain for a creative way to convince a potential donor why he should give to my NPO. Years ago, I helped start a Young Arts Circle for a nationally recognized museum and art gallery. 2) I wouldn’t recommend granting lifetime memberships, regardless of the size of donation.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

Debra Askanase, Director of Outreach, National Brain Tumor Society. Sean King, Director of Youth Education in the Arts, USBands. Jeff Yin, Founder & Google Grant Ad Strategist, Sustainable Clicks. Debra Askanase, Director of Outreach, National Brain Tumor Society. Annie Lynsen, Marketing Director, Small Act.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The potential for being overwhelmed by technology is magnified in the workplace by something called “ Collaborative Overload ” Rob Cross and Adam Grant in a recent Harvard Business Review article. Learn the Art of Saying No Effectively. What is Collaborative Overload? Make it a policy to have some white space as part of your week.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2014

Personally, I’ve been on the inside, wracking my brain for a creative way to convince a potential donor why he should give to my NPO. Years ago, I helped start a Young Arts Circle for a nationally recognized museum and art gallery. 2) I wouldn’t recommend granting lifetime memberships, regardless of the size of donation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. We Inspire Grant : One year of creative services to one U.S. Early registration deadline is Nov. Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi. nonprofit (valued up to $75,000 ).

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

The art of writing letters, and writing in general, has fallen by the way­side. The result could mean the difference between whether or not a nonprofit receives a major grant, acquires a new donor, or secures a key partnership. Case Study: The lost art of writing. When was the last time you received a handwritten letter ?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 27, 2015

Reading through 400+ session proposals made my brain hurt, but at the same time pumped me up. Great Stories Grant Wishes: Using Audience Personas to Update Make-A-Wish’s Messaging : Learn how to identify your target audience based on learnings from Make-A-Wish’s audience persona development. Nearly impossible. Campaign Case Studies.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

There are plenty of times I have silenced the exhibit designer in my brain who wanted everything just so, or the museum director who wanted to make our visitors happy all the time. The grant is for a three-year educational program whose curriculum has to be locked in from the start.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2013

If you asked me a month ago what the biggest barrier was to American arts organizations adopting practices that support active engagement in the arts by diverse participants, I would have said two: money and legitimacy. I asked how their new Exploring Engagement Fund (of which my museum was an early grant recipient) was going.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Online Fundraising Campaign or Program Honorable Mention: Planned Parenthood and Freestore Foodbank Winner: Ploughshares Fund Offer $100k grant to organization with the most votes in their "Peace Primary." With a simple and compelling concept, they asked their supporters what calendar would like. All rights reserved.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Our volunteers are the heart and soul and brains and heavy lifters (figuratively and-- when you have boxes of books involved-- literally) of our organization. Fostering new connections is also why we prefer collaborative programming with other arts and education groups as opposed to developing everything internally.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

We're taking the art of freelancing for writers, and making it much more transparent and much more public. I got the grant about a year ago, and then it took us about four to five months to get up and running. Actually, the art analogy isn't that far off. Art has never really been sustainable--high art.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

Some of the passions written were arts, education, animals, domestic violence, dance, family, health and wellness, abused children, boy scouts, environment and many others. I get to use my brain to think and figure things out. Student-led grant committee program with University of Central Florida. Mark’s Vocabulary (Our CEO).

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

It might take a minute to get your brain around that idea, that the donor is more important to you and your organization than their donation. Maybe they love the food bank but don’t care about the arts. Focus on grant prospecting, collecting stories, and creating content. But let that sink in. It’s just how it is.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I think our days and our brains can sometimes feel like this calculation. . So another client of mine, Upstream Arts, they provide programming in the Minneapolis schools, the Milwaukee School District, and I think they’re going to a couple other states now. So Free Arts Minnesota, I gave them $100 gift.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

Instructional design is knowing how to organize your content and shape exercises based on brain and learning research. The term was coined by Rob Cross, Adam Grant, and Reb Rebele in this HBR article. I’ve found drawing Zentangles , a form of meditative art work that you can do in 10-15 minutes, has helped improve focus.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

It's only been open for a few weeks, and they already have lots of visitors sharing stories, making and sharing art, and adding their voice to the exhibitions. Kris talked about brain research related to the potential cognitive and social impacts of participation. It's not enough to just receive information.

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