Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

So consider this just the first of many posts related to issues of cultural inclusion, evaluation, and impact. 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. What would you like to learn, and what have you discovered?

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Internal evaluation Create clear guidelines for your project and try to rank the proposals across different attributes. Interviewing and deciding Choosing the right vendor is more art than science. Project Background: Include stakeholders and history of need. What is your firm’s history with our cause and technology stack?

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Since then, Candid has been evaluating the way we identify this type of giving, both going forward and looking back over the last decade. Working with trusted community partners with deep history and expertise on grantmaking for racial equity, we responded this month by updating our special issue site on funding for racial equity.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 18, 2013

These are the questions that underpin Museum Camp 2014 , a professional development experience in which diverse people from the arts, community activism, and social services will measure the immeasurable together. This is the second year that the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) is hosting Museum Camp.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. Please bear in mind that these were very quick projects and are more like research sketches than full evaluations.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Check out this quote from a recent NonProfit Pro article: “The Great Resignation offers one of the greatest recruiting opportunities — if not the greatest — in recent history. Arts and entertainment has the longest road to full job recovery at 18.3 But don’t just take our word for it. months; and health care at 13.2

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

The Vera Institute (2015) offers this definition of social impact bonds: “In a social impact bond, private investors fund an intervention through an intermediary organization—and the government repays the funder only if the program achieves certain goals, which are specified at the outset of the initiative and assessed by an independent evaluator.”.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 17, 2017

friends, I want to share two great opportunities to get involved at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in 2017. Each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History hosts MuseumCamp , a professional development experience that is part retreat, part unconference, part adult summer camp. Dear Museum 2.0

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Her career has been dedicated to connecting people and places through performing arts . Selected in 2009 as one of Puget Sound Business Journal’s Women of Influence and nominated in 2015 as one of Metro Vancouver’s YWCA Women of Distinction in the category of arts, culture, and design . San Francisco Ballet. Kristin Bertell, m.a.,

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

This is the last week to apply for MuseumCamp 2014 , a professional development experience in which diverse people from the arts, community activism, and social services will measure the immeasurable together. Museum of Art and History professional development Quick Hits' The application period closes Friday, February 28.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 18, 2023

Common segmentation criteria for nonprofits include such as age, location, interests, communication preferences and donation history. For example, you might label a segment “Young Environmental Activists” or “High-Income Arts Patrons.”

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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.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2011

It's a little living room in a lobby area that invites people to lounge on comfortable chairs, leaf through magazines and books related to art and Santa Cruz history, and generally hang out. The area that houses the Creativity Lounge also shows art. Teenagers are curling up with art magazines. People love petting zoos.".

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

In the case of social and political upheaval, these might include coming together with others to advocate, share music and art, create and offer support (sometimes virtually). Whatever you did, evaluation is in order to assess what worked, what didn’t and why. Your donors have experienced strong emotions too.

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CauseVox

MAY 12, 2022

It’s time to re-evaluate your website’s donation page. As a separate option to recurring donations, Pledge Now, Pay Later (aka PNPL) is CauseVox’s state-of-the-art model. You can add offline donations and keep track of donor activity and history with its easy-to-use digital fundraising reporting interface. Pledge Now, Pay Later.

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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. The theory of change has been invaluable as a "playbook" that we use to guide programming decisions, evaluation protocols, and marketing messages about our impact. and it feels amazing.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

Going into the new year, we're focusing on: making exhibitions and collections as participatory as our public programs transforming our volunteer gallery host program into something more interactive helping members feel more like part of the family with us and with each other finding and testing out innovative formats for participatory history experiences (..)

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

As a forest-dwelling hippie, I know very little about reality TV, but it''s clear that the model of "do an ambitious, wacky project really fast" is now tied closely to a slew of shows about everything from cooking to art-making. Sure, they might have decided to present an art object in a confrontational and opinionated way.

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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. It depends.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2019

Marriott suffered a data breach affecting up to 500 million customers—one of the largest breaches in history. Some of them may not apply to your organization, but it’s a good place to begin evaluating how robust your policy is. Its executives were hauled before Congressional committees. 5(1)(a), 13, 14).

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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2011

They are successful with audiences who already believe in the intrinsic power of art or the role art plays in civic engagement, but it's unclear how helpful they are to the people who aren't attending, participating, or supporting. People often think of art institutions as providers of individual entertainment opportunities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. help to evaluate resumes of kids). You just need to show proof of membership.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2019

At the time, I was leading the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Today, OF/BY/FOR ALL is introducing a new free resource - a guide to creating and implementing demographic audience surveys that are accurate, respectful, and useful. We were three years into a dramatic transformation to welcome new people in new ways.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2012

I've always been a bit confused when people talk about the impact of a museum or arts institution as being about "more than numbers." I was visiting with Adam Lerner, Director and Chief Animator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Adam and his colleagues are more like a conceptual art collective than arts administrators.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2013

Small-scale evaluation for non-professionals. And FYI, we will soon be opening a full-time Education Associate job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. How can we look at "experiences" across space and time instead of separating place- and event-based projects? Supporting staff in a time of growth. Let me know.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2011

This was an aha moment for me at the time about self-confidence and self-evaluation, and it's one I've carried into my career. I've often argued that art and history museums should adopt this approach and encourage visitors to explore their potential as artists or historians, not just audiences for content.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. We tracked down as many people as we could and developed a big spreadsheet so we could evaluate the possibilities.

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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. How do you evaluate participatory engagement strategies?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2008

I visited a friend last weekend who works at a coffee shop in downtown Santa Cruz, right next to the Museum of Art and History. And on the walls, my friend explained, was art from the museum itself. Why doesn’t the whole Museum of Art and History look and feel like the coffee shop? There was funky music.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

, an exhibition produced with schoolchildren at the Wallace Collection in London, is a lovely example of co-creation that demonstrates the multiple benefits of inviting audience members to act as partners in arts organizations. These young curators really made 18th century design, art, and armory accessible and intriguing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2005

These inquiry-based projects are rooted in student questions and interests, and involve the focused, intensive study of one or more aspects of the literature, art, music, history, religion, language, daily life, customs, and traditions of other cultures.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 9, 2009

What is the evaluation plan? Kylie Pine worked with a small, traditional history museum very unfamiliar with social media but interested in embarking on online discussion. Erin Milbeck worked with an innovative art space that has had a hard time attracting local audiences in a suburb fairly unfamiliar with contemporary art.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I used the example of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which has a mission statement that includes unusual words like “bold” and “fearless.” I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

It’s part art and part science. There are plenty of ordinary happenings that can grab a headline, such as your nonprofit’s annual student art contest or upcoming 5K. A story about your organization’s history, programs, and future goals is unlikely to get picked up by a newspaper, TV station, or digital publication.

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