Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2019

GivingTuesday Data Collaborative?reports Taking a different approach, the Bishop Museum of Science and Nature , the largest natural and cultural history museum on Florida’s Gulf Coast, partnered with a local couple who are matching donations dollar for do llar up to $25,000 given before December 31. . reports that in the U.S.?online

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This Black History Month, we reflect on the strategy work that our team does through our partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture —much of which centers around expanding access. A Seat at the Table It was March 2020. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Marc van Bree and I were chatting about some of the collaborative arts marketing strategies that some arts organizations have experimented with on Twitter. Since there have been a few examples, I asked Marc if would write a post looking at some of these. What do you have in store for the future?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. As we start the process at our museum of updating our permanent history gallery, one of our specific goals is to increase intergroup understanding in our community.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Partnering together, we collaborate to help people fulfill their passion to make a difference for others. With aligned missions–and wonderful people–we knew we wanted to collaborate with Qgiv! We provide services to every sector, whether it’s arts and culture, human services, foundations and associations, and more.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Your marketing strategies and the marketing channels you use can drastically affect your fundraising success throughout the year. Nonprofit marketing refers to all of the different strategies your organization uses across the various channels of communication to spread awareness about your cause and gain new supporters for your mission.

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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 Marketing and Communications Catalyst will shape and execute our marketing, press, and communications strategy. We're expanding beyond our walls this summer with the opening of Abbott Square.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Note From Beth: Yesterday, I attended a convening called “ Beyond Dynamic Adaptability ” for arts organizations about cultural participation in the arts. Together, Fox and Fledgling developed an intensive outreach strategy through more than 500 community screenings.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2016

One of my organization's core values is radical collaboration. But radical collaboration with our community only works if we also collaborate internally as a team. We all collaborated to develop programs, strategies, and community partnerships. Sometimes, we fail because we are not collaborative enough.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Designs and launches new initiatives, drives organizational strategy, and helps chart the future of Feeding America. 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 .

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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. Our revolution is predicated on three big ideas: Art and history are something you do, not just something you learn about. You can download all the slides here. Be rigorous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

If you want a chance of winning a copy, leave a comment saying how you might apply some of the science of participation to your social media strategy. Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s. Wiki users are often collaborators.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

I’m here with our Art Director, Devyn Taylor. This is well documented, and even the history of people describing themselves as white goes back to the slave trade. Danielle Coates-Connor : This piece that you two collaborated on is stunning, I think. This article references the book The Politics of Design. How are you?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I'm incredibly proud of all the staff, trustees, volunteers, collaborators, visitors, and members who have made this happen. There are at least three significant things that have contributed to our success thus far: A clear strategy. We started the summer with no money and a strategic vision to be a thriving, central gathering place.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2017

This is the eleventh 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. It felt like we needed to lock in a date so we could book collaborators, schedule staff, market the activities, and plan everything.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2015

This is the first in a two-part series about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History’s new theory of change. This week, Ian David Moss and I are each writing blog posts about our collaborative process to develop a theory of change at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Where to start? It depends.

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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. They talked about community building.

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Forum One

APRIL 2, 2024

The Webby Awards , established in 1996, are the leading international accolade for Internet excellence, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS). Let’s make history together and help HHMI’s Wild Hope and Vilcek Foundation’s Pueblo Pottery win the Webby People’s Voice Award.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. Giant collaborative tweetups show we like to work together. But every time a museum social account responded to another museum we saw this form of collaboration.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You can collaborate with other nonprofits in your region or in your issue area to investigate whether you can all offer benefits for each other. For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Use the list to augment or inform your own strategy.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. While effective as a tool for rapid change, “embrace the chaos” is not a comfortable management strategy. It’s been a wild and wonderful year—without question, my most challenging and stimulating yet.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 10, 2020

Utilize your data and analyze your giving history to better understand how your donors might support you. Developing sharable content is a great way to get your donors to collaborate. Day 4: Day-of Strategy. Set a realistic goal and plan to share your success throughout the entire day. Day 3: Create Spreadable Content.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

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. And folks should check your agency out once the session is over, over there at RBW Strategy. What’s our strategy?” And we’re going to talk through some strategy building blocks.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2024

If you are a grantmaker, you know how important it is to have a reliable and efficient software system that can help you manage your grants, track your impact, and collaborate with your stakeholders. MicroEdge was established back in 1985 and released their Grants Management Software “GIFTS Online” in 2009.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. 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.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration / Cancún Yucatán, (Int.) It is our turn to make history. Oct 9 - 14.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

This articles provides some excellent tips and strategies for a successful group approach to blogging. non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. Small dots is an advocate for technology in the arts. Dave McClure has a guest post on TechCrunch called " Seven Steps to Graphing Your Facebook Strategy.

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Neon CRM

JULY 20, 2023

While this is particularly prevalent in historical or arts nonprofits, you’ll see it in almost every sector. This might include state-of-the-art machinery, computers, software, or other tools designed to improve operations and further the cause. Conducting a Feasibility Study A feasibility study is all about early due diligence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Walker Art Center New Media Blog Interview with New Media Designer Community Programs Blog Interview with community program. An internal focus for organizations to capture knowledge and support collaboration and go external. Nonprofit Quarterly/N-TEN Collaboration: What's a blog and why should nonprofits care?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2012

Legends of the Stall was started by a visitor services staff member, Katie Chrivia, who collaborated with interns and volunteers to develop the content and the design. There's no oversight or permission required because the activity is self-evidently in keeping with our goals and strategy. We seek and value the feedback of others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. I'd love to see more detail, like an overview the strategies or how they measure success. What do you think?

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2022

Forum One received 10 awards in seven categories in this year’s awards for Canopus (platinum), Centauri (gold), and Arcturus (rose gold) across the categories of government, health care services, diversity & inclusion, art, nonprofit, education, and financial services. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. Truman Scholarship Foundation.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Two weeks ago, I wrote about t he use of the word "quality" in the arts and its many forms. Inspired by Stacy, I wanted to share some of the work we are doing at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History to clarify what we mean by engagement. I don''t think these goals are universal by any means to the museum or arts field.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

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. That said, I think it's really important for all these engagement strategies to be "opt-in."

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 13, 2017

Plan for the meeting to last around 30 minutes and include a review of the organization’s history, mission, and board structure/requirements on the agenda. Committing to this type of recruitment process will ensure a successful collaboration between new members, existing members, and staff. Organization history.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

Telling engaging stories about your nonprofit requires more than just broadcasting an overview of your mission and history to the world. This could be environmental issues, education, or arts. To effectively evaluate and adjust your marketing strategies, track specific metrics on each platform you use.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we''re approaching this challenge through a different lens: social bridging. One of our core programming goals is to build social capital by forging unexpected connections between diverse collaborators and audience members. Museum of Art and History programs social bridging'

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