Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 21, 2021

So when you use a main CRM database, such as Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP), along with an assortment of ‘satellite’ systems for online giving, fundraising events, email marketing, eCommerce, volunteers, and the like, data integrity has to be top of mind. The giving history on her actual record is now understated.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2021

People are very aware of the rabid fandoms around various mainstream geek culture, things like Star Wars or Marvel movies for example. This emotional response is a sign of an unhealthy relationship to cultural production. Often extreme fans of these media properties refuse to tolerate any serious critique.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits.

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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. We work hard to name and build our culture in many ways. Institutional culture is something I never really understood before and I am now completely fascinated by how it can shape work. Naming our goals and our culture.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2022

By better understanding the wide cultural roots of this season of generosity we can fine-tune the means to communicate with all who make up our communities. We all know that in Western Culture, Christmas typically dominates the holiday season. In parts of Europe Christmas falls on different days.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2018

The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History keeps growing and experimenting in our quest to build a stronger, more connected community. The positions are: OFBYFOR ALL Communications Catalyst : to fuel the OFBYFOR ALL movement by organizing civic and cultural professionals online and at conferences around the world.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

This is the second installation 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. The MAH fundamentally has two jobs: we bring art and history out into our community, and we invite our community in.

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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. As I did at the one-year and three-year mark, here are some of the things I'm most proud of, mistakes I've made, and questions on my mind as we head into the next five years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Last week I was honored to be a counselor at Museum Camp , an annual professional development event hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). This is more a mind shift than anything else. It’s also a sign that the employee and the manager are not setting a good culture of work life balance.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 25, 2014

So…why aren’t they giving to your cultural organization? With that in mind, here are three tips to engage millenials: 1. With a little tweaking and targeted messaging, you can start to build stronger relationships with millennials: the donors of the future and the largest generation in history.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 22, 2010

For a year now, Peter Linett and his friends at Slover-Linett Strategies have been blogging thoughtfully about connecting with arts audiences in new ways. While this blog started by focusing on audience research, topics include subjectivity, participation, innovation, and culture shifts. Thinking about Exhibits.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Arts & Culture: Big Sky. Big History. Education: A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste® — UNCF -The United Negro College Fund. Open minds. Searching on Google or even on Facebook for issues or ideas can tap into words in your tagline that may not be included in your organization’s name. Open doors. —

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Connection Cafe

JULY 25, 2014

So…why aren’t they giving to your cultural organization? With that in mind, here are three tips to engage millenials: 1. With a little tweaking and targeted messaging, you can start to build stronger relationships with millennials: the donors of the future and the largest generation in history.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Our curator writes labels about licking the art. And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution. Merilee Mostov and the Columbus Museum of Art. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise.

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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. And I had two very specific ideas in mind when I was thinking about the soundtrack to accompany this poem. I am the Chief Creative at Nonprofit Quarterly.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

This summer, we opened two exhibitions at my museum that are highly relevant to local culture. Both of these exhibitions are relevant to the cultural identity of Santa Cruz. These boards connect modern-day surfers to something greater than themselves: across oceans, across cultures, across time. The rechewed meat of culture.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 10, 2020

These are uncertain times and you most likely don’t have a giving level in mind. Utilize your data and analyze your giving history to better understand how your donors might support you. Your objective is to stay visible and in the forefront of your donor’s minds as much as possible. Day 5: #GivingTuesdayNow.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

The curatorial team or a multidisciplinary team who have the audience in mind when decisions are made about the best way to connect visitors to the collection?" What is on their minds. Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible. You go online, and that’s why physical culture is at risk.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 2, 2017

Almost every arts organization would say that audience development is vital to their long term viability. This can be challenging given the realities of limited marketing budgets and our media-saturated society where it can be hard to stay top of mind. How can we cultivate patrons to maximize support without any giving history?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 9, 2009

Recognizing that the museum is situated in a highly walkable, hip neighborhood full of representatives of the target audience, she recommended a highly localized campaign that gets the museum thinking "like a neighbor" and becoming a cultural block party/bbq hub for a tight geographic area. Go forth and do awesome things.

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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. We talk about a cultural aesthetic.” It’s about understanding who you are and where your strengths are.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Innovation Festival aligns a community of innovators and agitators, bringing to life the future of business and culture with a mix of playfulness and sophistication, captivating keynotes, hands-on workshops, and intimate site visits at the most dynamic studios, startups, and centers of creativity in New York City. INBOUND 2016.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

The Detroit Institute of Arts has been a precious anchor where many of us have created memories that helped define who we are today. The one example that is clearest in my mind is witnessing the violence of Spirit of the Dead Watching paired next to The Yellow Christ during the staff preview of the Humble and Human exhibition.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

This week's Ask Britt question, sent in by a reader, is, "How can I combine the creative arts with social impact? The arts are a wonderful way to make a difference in the world because they are fun, engaging, and oftentimes help you to tell stories, all key elements to attracting and keeping people involved in a cause. Great question!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

With that in mind, I turned the question of “who is a museum” to the people, here and on my social platforms, even my personal ones. He defined museums as “a lifeline between its community and the wider cultural landscape. For many people museums are purveyors of and intercessors with history. A 24/7 resource always top of mind.”

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

I don’t have an identity grounded in an single culture, nation or land. They are larger in our minds. They’ve had enough years to refine their art. It provides much needed difference and rhythm we are attracted to, over the often mind-numbing flat Twitter or Facebook feed. Our Stories. Typeface sizes matter.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 13, 2012

Fundraiser poaching : Newer organizations and competing programs find it easier to recruit top performers with incremental pay increases rather than teaching the “art of giving” to new fundraisers. Create a team-oriented fund development culture. Capture supporter information using a CRM or other system.

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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. Organization history. Strengthening your engagement process while updating them on initiatives will keep your organization top of mind. Schedule of board meetings.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2008

We have a show coming up right now about synthetic biology, where engineers are building life forms that are new to existence, new to the history of life. They articulate the basic questions and knee-jerk reactions in our own minds, carrying us deep into the content from a common starting place. And they're doing it quite.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. Most of our nonprofits have a human or community interest in mind, that purpose, and they exist to create impact, positive impact on the communities that we serve. So, obviously, going to be a really great presenter for you.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2007

As an illustration, consider the following names: Pirate Museum Art Museum Rock Star Museum History Museum What makes you excited about some of these and yawning at others? In my mind, they missed a huge opportunity to be the Pirate Museum. But what about the Paley Center and other museums offering more traditional content?

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

History of Thanksgiving. Some take issue with the narrative of Thanksgiving for the way it obscures the long history of war and massacre of European settlers against Native Americans. As a result of that long history, there are many features our language today that are rooted in genocide of Native Americans and remain insensitive.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2012

I choose nonprofits that in my mind have excelled at social media throughout the previous year and represent causes that I feel are timely for the coming year. Teach human history, art, and culture: @ Smithsonian. Every January Nonprofit Tech 2.0 The selection process is a personal one.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2016

Our entire strategy at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is rooted in community participation. We invite diverse locals to share their creative and cultural talents with our greater community at the museum. Does community participation work for big cultural destinations too? Printmakers leading workshops.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

The first couple days in Cambodia we learned about the culture, which was very important, but also very challenging for the participants. As a result, you have a culture of post-traumatic stress disorder. We spent the first few days really understanding the culture. My history is one of sexual molestation.

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