NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Collaboration. Nonprofit Hub runs a coworking space (or a “collaboration center,” as we like to call it), and we’re constantly surprised by some of the relationships formed between our members. When you’re working just feet away from dozens of people trying to make an impact, collaboration is bound to happen. Let’s take a look.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2016

One of my organization's core values is radical collaboration. We work with over 2,000 regional partners each year to develop exhibitions, festivals, programs, and projects. But radical collaboration with our community only works if we also collaborate internally as a team. We're using it for creative collaborators too.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). I hope you'll share your thoughts in the comments.

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Whole Whale

MAY 16, 2022

It is important to note that these tools won’t do all of the work for you, they are human-assisted and there is an art to working with them. They can also help you generate ideas and structure your thoughts. Collaboration: AI software can help you collaborate with others on projects, making writing a team effort.

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Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Data & Discovery Candidates should be able to speak to the process for donor research, which data points they have found are most impactful, what information is needed prior to a donor visit, and the art of donor research. What strategies do you use to track progress on major gift projects?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Imagine sitting around a conference table planning an upcoming project that involves user-generated content. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. Rick wanted a better way to describe what kinds of projects led to different community outcomes.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). In my experience, innovation is about flexibility, capacity, and collaborative relationships. A crew that has the capacity to build a sign at the last minute. How do you loosen up funds?

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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. There are many amazing community representatives from business, arts, education, and social services who connect us to powerful ideas and partners. It was an evening meeting with beer and chips.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Corporate presence and visibility in the community have been most effectively accomplished through relatively low cost/high yield investments, including short-term project grants, event sponsorships, cause-related marketing, voluntarism and hands-on projects, in-kind giving (e.g., This is all good and deeply appreciated.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Every Saturday, the curatorial team at Elsewhere , a living museum in downtown Greensboro, NC, reviews the project proposals of its artists-in-residence. Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We've gotten a little more organized at The Museum of Art & History , and we've now released opportunities for summer internships. These are unpaid part-time and full-time opportunities to help design public programs, develop new uses for the museum, perform visitor research, and pursue unusual projects.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NPTECH Punk June 19, 2008 Beth, of course, suggested this , and I’m jumping on her bandwagon. I realized, in being introduced to Edupunk , that I have been doing it for, oh, almost 20 years now.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. When I look back at some recent projects that I''m most excited about (like this teen program ), I realize that I had very little to do with their conception or execution. I''m open to any questions you want to share in the comments.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

While informal involvement or input for a specific project is always useful, there''s also value to more sustained participation--and the relationships and accountability that comes with it. So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

Michaela Hackner, Project Director & Content Strategist, Forum One Communications. Norman Reiss, Project Manager, Technology, Center for Court Innovation. Sean King, Director of Youth Education in the Arts, USBands. Sue Ann Reed, Project/Production Manager, The Engage Group. Robert Weiner, President, Robert L.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. Riding the art couch through downtown Santa Cruz with two visitors and a dog while blasting the Jackson 5 was one of the highlights of my year. Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

If a capital campaign is on the horizon for your organization, Aaron Bishop and Brian O’Neil will share strategies and resources available to confidently predict your project costs and resources needed. We were talking before the session started, they’ve got a lot of really interesting projects. Aaron, Brian, I got 2:00 Eastern.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2016

Five years ago, I left the consulting world to take the helm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) at a time of crisis and change. We have spent the past three years planning and raising money for a project to build a creative town square for our city on the front porch of the museum. I bridle under too much structure.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In the first rectangle, I sketched out one version of how our organization could be structured. After an hour, I had 12 different versions of our staff structure, each in its own little box. But I resisted structure. And so we stayed egalitarian and collaborative. I set the timer for five minutes and started working.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In 2016, NMAAHC launched the Freedmen’s Bureau Transcription Project within the Smithsonian Transcription Center. million pages of documents in the Freedmen’s Bureau archive— the largest transcription project ever undertaken by the Smithsonian. A Seat at the Table It was March 2020. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project. They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

This swings both ways, of course: if our organization and leadership create an environment and structure that forces IT to stay confined, we can only help you run faster. John Merritt from the YMCA of San Diego describes the process of Mission Alignment as the ART of Technology : A = Alignment. That brings us to IT Alignment.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. For this reason, some citizen science projects are now moving towards collaborative and co-creative models.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

At our museum, we don't provide a lot of structured mentorship for interns. I wanted the ability to do projects that would end up on the floor. At this time, we're not ready to offer people highly structured internships. I was dismayed to discover that by the standards of many of these grad students, I'm a lousy intern manager.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

And their unique structure and bottom-up approach offers some instructive lessons for museums that want to really embrace visitors and members as co-creators of the institutional experience. In some cases, such as AS220 labs , they are part of larger community art spaces. This isn't just a geek thing. They're organized around members.

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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. Small organizations are often best at forming long-term relationships with community members, whereas large organizations can rally lots of participants for a contributory project.

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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

How did this project come about? The City Gallery was mounting a contemporary art exhibition at the New Walk Museum called Play Ground , which featured artists who treat the gallery space as a kind of carnival instead of as an aesthetic temple. What were the City Gallery goals for the project? Can you explain how that worked?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

We experimented with everything--hours, front desk staffing structure, community programs. and we've tried to internalize a mindset of perpetual beta and modular support for community collaboration. We knew we weren't doing everything at the desired quality level. But we got it going anyway.

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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. Consult with an attorney if you plan to do this.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In the past year, I've seen the conversation shift to talking about impact and sustainability of these projects--how we evaluate audience participation and how we can shift from experimental pilots to more day-to-day implementation. A lot of these projects are about getting people to be more social and active in museums.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs.

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Neon CRM

JULY 20, 2023

Capital campaigns typically focus on raising large amounts of money for a specific project over a set period of time. A capital campaign is an aggressive funding push to support a large, expensive project. While this is particularly prevalent in historical or arts nonprofits, you’ll see it in almost every sector.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration / Cancún Yucatán, (Int.) Participants will network and learn about other areas of practice, discuss a range of opportunities and challenges faced by different sectors, and work collaboratively to improve impact measurement. Oct 9 - 14.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As we embark on the fundraising journey in 2024, the significance of a well-structured nonprofit annual development plan cannot be overstated. Building Donor Relationships Building meaningful connections with donors is an art and a science. Check out this detailed update on how your donation is making a real impact.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

1stfans was not an “if we build it, they will come” kind of project. When we first shared this idea, Will’s boss said, "this is a great and innovative project, but it only serves one part of the community. She’ll do two talks about the project—one just for 1stfans and one that’s public and open to all.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. However, the contest also prevented us from legitimately fostering collaboration.

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