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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. The Denver Foundation. The Denver Foundation. The Kresge Foundation.

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Treat Your Website Project Like an Investment Rather than an Expense

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After more than 13 years working with nonprofit and cultural institutions, like the Denver Botanic Gardens , our firm has seen that these problems are epidemic. Mind Shift: Expense Versus Investment. It's also trusted by institutions like Greenpeace, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Red Cross, and the White House.

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Empowering Staff to Take Creative Risks

Museum 2.0

I was joined by Lori Fogarty (ED of the Oakland Museum of California), Adam Lerner (ED and Chief Animator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver), and Beck Tench (Director for Innovation and Digital Engagement at the Museum of Life and Science). I learned three big things from this panel: Risk-takers need space-makers.

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Back to Blogging with a Roundup of Terrific Articles

Museum 2.0

I thought a library was one of the few sites where the urge to conserve and the desire to improve—twin poles of our political mind—were easily and naturally united. In a useful post, Doug Borwick suggests that art is like baseball: declining in relevance. Give yourself a long afternoon and read it. SPEAKING OF RELEVANCE.

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Weekend Reading: 2012 Trends and Young Adult Programs

Museum 2.0

Such a diverse group of topics in one report got my mind moving laterally and imagining other trends I might want to follow. I have a personal connection to this report, which was produced by the Denver Art Museum after a multi-year project developing meaningful connections with young adults.

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Six Museum-Related Blogs You Might Not Know About That Are Really Good

Museum 2.0

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. This is a new blog written by Diane Ragsdale as part of the Arts Journal suite. One last new blog, this time from Jaime Kopke, the smart cookie behind the Denver Community Museum.

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Dangerous/Ridiculous: Reflections on AAM

Museum 2.0

Our curator writes labels about licking the art. Merilee Mostov and the Columbus Museum of Art. While the content of any one meeting wasn't mind-blowing, the fact that we're now sufficiently technology-mediated that these kinds of informal, spontaneous events can happen is really exciting. I found this idea really powerful.