Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2011

The rise of QR Codes has helped many nonprofits understand the need for mobile websites, or at the very least mobile-optimized web pages. Here are 22 nonprofit mobile websites to help get your creativity flowing: 1. Dallas Art Museum :: dallasmuseumofart.mobi. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art :: nelson-atkins.org/mobileguide.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The rise of QR Codes has helped some nonprofits understand the need for at least mobile-optimized web pages. Here are 33 nonprofit mobile websites to help get your creativity flowing: 1. British Museum :: m.britishmuseum.org. Dallas Art Museum :: dallasmuseumofart.mobi. Nature Conservancy :: m.nature.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Buy your holiday cards from the British Heart Foundation and 100% of the profit goes towards helping beat heart disease. Anderson Cancer Center Children’s Art Project :: View Collection. Museum of Modern Art :: View Collection. British Heart Foundation :: View Collection. Operation Smile :: View Collection.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 22, 2012

Until then, since the iPad is the top selling tablet and its dimensions are compatible with desktop and laptop devices, if your nonprofit is considering launching a new website, then the following eleven nonprofit websites will help guide your design decisions. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art :: sfmoma.org.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2017

So as we look to engage with our audiences, digital strategies are essential , even if our end goal is an in-person interaction—visiting our museum or attending a performance—and not necessarily an online donation. The five levels of the vision matrix are: Conservative – Traditional, restricted, or protected approach.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Fundraising is a HUGE field and there are many great oranizations that help improve the quality of the sector like the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). Given this competitive landscape it can make a lot of sense to look for fundraising consultants and firms to help your nonprofit. List of Nonprofit Fundraising Companies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. How do you truly involve the general public and ask them to engage , online with art? In essence, it is visible storage for the museum.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. But effort and efficacy are not the same.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Environmental Impact.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Environmental Impact.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 22, 2012

Until then, since the iPad is the top selling tablet and its dimensions are compatible with desktop and laptop devices, if your nonprofit is considering launching a new website, then the following eleven nonprofit websites will help guide your design decisions. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art :: sfmoma.org.

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

Fundraising is a HUGE field and there are many great oranizations that help improve the quality of the sector like the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP). Given this competitive landscape it can make a lot of sense to look for fundraising consultants and firms to help your nonprofit. List of Nonprofit Fundraising Companies.

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DipJar

JANUARY 28, 2022

Managed by the Pinellas County Parks and Conservation Resources Department, the Gardens are free and open to the public year-round. He imagined that he would work with plants, instead, he’s working with people to help them understand and appreciate the rich native flora of Florida. Adding an ATM helped, but not as well as hoped.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

What does this have to do with museums? It is why in the great museum upheavals of 2020 no white male director of import ended up getting toppled. It is why art museums have greater financial resources than other ones. The big next step for most museum professionals will be the hardest. Here’s the thing.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Museums, zoos, and aquariums are finding that crowdfundraising can be a strategic tool to add to their fundraising playbook. Here are 3 arts and cultural organizations that have given crowd fundraising a go for compelling causes: National Air & Space Museum. Are there works of art you want to restore? Denver Zoo.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 9, 2013

MUCH appreciation to the incredible guest authors who helped me out: Stefania Van Dyke, Beck Tench, Julie Bowen, Adrienne Berney, and George Scheer. And thanks to you for engaging with their posts and with the reruns from the Museum 2.0 In a useful post, Doug Borwick suggests that art is like baseball: declining in relevance.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2011

Our goal is to tackle the root causes of this issue and provide people with services that help them transition out of homelessness. I'm trying to reposition our museum as a cultural hub supporting creative and intellectual community growth. These museums work differently. They have different goals they are shooting for.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

Helping to drive that growth, experts say, was a recovering economy and a focus on fundraising fundamentals, including investment in fundraising capacity and attention to cultivating major donors, using data to better understand and segment donors, refining communications, focusing on impact, and making more effective use of technology.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

Let's say your organization has a mission to increase X (art, healthy kids, clean water, community cohesiveness, etc.). Relative to other museums, I think we spend less time producing an "onstage" experience and more time collaborating with community organizations behind the scenes to empower them to produce.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

Museums have been grappling with this question for years ( here's a 2007 roundup of such projects ), most aggressively in zoos and natural history museums where staff hope to inspire conservation and in history/concept museums that focus on civic engagement and activism. No small task for a museum exhibition.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Joe also shared some great Pinterest use-cases for nonprofits to experiment with including a Pinboards of fashionable used clothes available in Goodwill stores and beautiful images endangered frogs Conservation International is working to save. Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The conventional wisdom on museum memberships is that they are "one size fits many" programs whose primary benefits are free entrance to the museum and insider access to exhibition openings. But what about all the other people who love your museum? Want to know how the Brooklyn Museum is answering this question?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2007

Inventory isn't a museum activity that inspires curiosity in many visitors. This summer, the Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art ( Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde) is trying to change that. People often talk about non-collecting museums as the museums of the future.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or produce an art exhibit with elementary school students. But then I started finding more humble projects related to broader issues, and I began to see Kickstarter as a potentially fascinating space for museums and cultural institutions. Why should cultural and arts organizations care about Kickstarter? How would you fund it?

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

Here are examples of the types of campaigns silent auctions can help with: Annual giving campaign Giving Tuesday or another giving day campaign Large fundraising events, like a gala or banquet Online fundraising campaigns with a virtual auction element. Create a plan for storing and cataloging auction items.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Animal rights organizations use mobile fundraising to help advocate for those who cannot advocate for themselves. Environmental conservation and preservation societies, on the whole, tend to use mobile fundraising to raise money and support for important legislation. Arts and culture. Animal rights. Environmental awareness.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

If people on the street are talking about X, the museum should be talking about X too. This is the least useful form of relevance for the arts. I used to work at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. Our mandate was to be the museum of Silicon Valley--not of its material history, but its pulse of innovation.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Braided River is a Seattle-based publishing organization that is committed to inspiring support for critical conservation efforts. The nonprofit creates books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. As a reuse organization, its motto is "make art, not waste."

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Care2

JUNE 22, 2012

When the fire alarm went off in my building this week, I couldn’t help thinking that the experience was a lesson in how organizations can effectively handle crisis. Well, first I thought “Let’s get out of here!” ” but once safely outside, I considered the learning opportunity.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2009

In 2006, John Falk and Beverly Sheppard, seasoned museum researchers and practitioners, released a co-authored book entitled Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. This is a pretty powerful and provocative book—you talk about rethinking the whole business of museums.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

Elizabeth Merritt is the director of the Center for the Future of Museums , a new project of the American Association of Museums (AAM). In this post, she describes the thinking behind the Center and asks for your help in shaping its future. I would argue that for the past century, museums have been operating in equilibrium.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2019

But matching gifts are designed to help your organization raise more money without any extra hassle. Double the Donation offers a more in-depth guide to corporate matching gift programs that you may find helpful if you’re interested in learning more or seeing some real-life examples.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Now, not all of you will get to spend every other week for months chatting with Rob about museums, but I wanted to offer you a slice of how wonderful that can be. This week Rob will share some ideas about museum work. The Activity Level Discussion in Museums: Is a Role Marketplace an Answer? People make museums.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. what is the value of the exhibition experience to non-participants, that is, regular museum visitors?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2018

Members are the catalyst of your arts or cultural organization. Here are seven tips that will help drive your membership success: Involvement – Involve your members in your mission, first-hand. One might support conservation while another is intrigued by your toddler program.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Oh, and her work with her husband has helped to lay the groundwork for much of our understanding of modern science today - no big deal. Are you passionate about conservation and environmental causes? Nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy , Union of Concerned Scientists , American Association of University Women , and NRDC do, too.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet. Instagram :: instagr.am.

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