Forum One

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The 2022 inaugural competition received nearly 2,500 entries from 36 countries worldwide and winners are selected by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Talking About Race is a widely referenced and shared section of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture ’s website.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2019

It’s 2019, and a whole lot is changing in the museum and nonprofit world. That’s not to mention how strained museums already are in terms of resources. According to the American Alliance of Museums, the average museum has 6 volunteers for every paid staff member , a ratio which s oars to 18:1 in museums with budgets under $250,000.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

Two weeks ago, Roberto Bedoya asked several arts bloggers, including me, to write a post reflecting on Whiteness and its implications for the arts. I am in no way an expert in issues related to racial and ethnic representation in the arts. I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

Organized by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA) , this year’s 28th annual awards includes over 6,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world. National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Talking About Race. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The donations collected will contribute to Broadway Cares’ support of The Actors Fund’s safety net of social service programs and its own annual National Grants Program. . Museums or performing arts centers can do the same but ask their followers to name new statues or caption new pieces of art.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Note from Beth: I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion in October at the recent Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson where I learned about some of the preliminary study result he discovered. Arts organizations are not alone in this. The question. What we learned: a snapshot.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. We ended up with a gallery in the museum instead.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The new Pollination Project is giving $1,000 seed grants to individual changemakers, every day, 365 days a year. Do you have an idea for a world-changing project that could bloom with some seed money?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 7, 2020

To help, here are some thought-starters from the Blackbaud Arts & Cultural team – along with a sneak-peek at what we have planned for 2020 so far. . . This might sound obvious, but it’s easy to take for granted : y our surrounding community likely consists of your main base of volunteers, visitors, members and donors.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2012

What happens when you let visitors vote on art? Each of these invited members of the public to vote on art in a way that had substantive consequences--big cash prizes awarded, prestige granted, exhibitions offered. The Brooklyn Museum just finished the public stage of GO , a "community-curated open studio project."

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Whole Whale

MARCH 10, 2021

There are many exchanges to find NFTs and each one tends to specialize in different types of art or styles. What’s more, artists will continue to get a percentage of the future sales of that NFT art into the future. Token holders can be granted exclusive perks, given additional airdrops, and rewarded for using NFTs.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Earlier this month, the Detroit Institute of Arts was "saved" by a voter-approved property tax (called a "millage") in its three surrounding counties. Residents in the three counties that pay the millage will receive special benefits : free admission to the museum and expanded educational programming.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This week, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released a new paper by Holly Sidford called Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change. The majority of foundation funding for the arts goes to large, established organizations that present work that is based in the European canon for a primarily white, upper-income audience.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Davey Awards are sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts , a top-tier body of select professionals from the “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms. SILVER – Virtual & Remote Experiences-Arts & Culture for Virtual & Remote. Pacific Science Center.

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Qgiv

MAY 1, 2023

Read books written by AAPI authors and visit a museum to learn about significant figures in the AAPI community and their contributions. Exploring Asian and Pacific art is also a great way to delve into AAPI history. You can even visit virtual museums or look up educational resources online. Donate to support their work here.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

When I started this blog in 2006, I made a multi-media introduction to the concept of "museum 2.0" Venue as content platform instead of content provider: the museum becomes a stage on which professionals and amateurs can curate, interpret, and remix artifacts and information. The museum gets better the more people use it.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. A grant from the Campion Foundation provided 7,000 books at cost to advocacy groups. Environmental Impact. Contributors presented across the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. A grant from the Campion Foundation provided 7,000 books at cost to advocacy groups. Environmental Impact. Contributors presented across the U.S.,

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

AS works with nonprofits across a wide range of industries, including arts and culture, the environment, foundations, and government. Byrne Pelofsky has served clients in various sectors for services from grant writing to campaign management. Website: [link]. Alexander Haas. Website: [link]. CCS Fundraising. Website: [link].

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

Margaret shared these thoughts about "museums for use" on her blog , and I asked her to adapt a version for the Museum 2.0 Should a museum be a destination or a place for everyday use? During my time at RISD studying industrial design, I developed relationships with two museums on campus: the Museum of Art and the Nature Lab.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

It’s been a rough couple years for arts-based nonprofits. As pandemic aid has run out without patrons returning in pre-2020 numbers, many arts nonprofit across the country have had to shrink programming, cut staff, or close altogether. This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2009

As someone who spent half her career working for and with arts organizations this news makes me sad: A report yesterday from the USAToday that quotes Bob Lynch , the President of Americans for the Arts estimating that 10,000 arts organizations will close this year, 10% of the total number.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The W³ Awards are sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA) , an assembly of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The W³ Awards are sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA) , an assembly of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2020

Emergency Economic Injury Grants. Community Services Block Grant – $1 Billion. Child Care Development Block Grant – $3.5 National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities – $75 Million each. Institute of Museum and Library Services – $50 Million. Community Development Block Grant – $5 Billion.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 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. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

AS works with nonprofits across a wide range of industries, including arts and culture, the environment, foundations, and government. Byrne Pelofsky has served clients in various sectors for services from grant writing to campaign management. Website: [link]. Alexander Haas. Website: [link]. CCS Fundraising. Website: [link].

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

But Vi doesn't work in a science museum. Its funding has skyrocketed as major foundations and technology companies have made multi-million dollar grants and investments in its growth. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, who are well known in museums for their excellent Smarthistory website and podcasts. the way the best museums do.

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DipJar

JANUARY 28, 2022

Since the 1980s, the land grant university extension for Pinellas County has been on the site of the Gardens. But the Gardens aren’t the only draw, it shares a campus with several other organizations: a heritage village, an art museum, the Extension services, as well as the county parks department. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. Nonprofit dashboard reports, which communicate critical information in a concise, visual, and more compelling way, are mostly used by board or staff for discussion at internal or private meetings or used as part of reports back to funders for grants. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

It was quite impressive/overwhelming to see everything we did in the past year–evaluations by consultants, training evaluations, family member surveys, post grant evaluations, etc. Action #2: This session made me think about how we could try something more interactive with our recently completed grant seeker survey.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You really need zip codes to apply for that grant, but you realize this is an inconvenience for both ticket sellers and patrons. My kids love to print helmet stickers at the local fire museum and I’m inclined to add my email address to get it sent to my inbox for a record of our visit. The front desk data collection conundrum.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

We also work with animal shelters and animal-related causes, as well as with the arts, whether it’s museums, education, or other types of art institutions. That’s why we launched a few things this year, including a discount program for Qgiv customers and a new grant program to help nonprofits upgrade their websites.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 9, 2014

Grant proposals. For many arts/museum professionals, writing text in 100-word chunks is a daily activity. There are great references for better art writing, but we don''t always use them. Then I started using it for chunks of grant proposals. Exhibit labels. Promotional text. Word counts matter there too.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2014

What if we used art to activate space in a different way? I''ve been reflecting a lot recently on our museum''s work on " social bridging "--bringing people together across cultural, ethnic, geographic, generational, and socio-economic differences--and how to take it outside. But bonding is easy. Bridging is hard. Bonding is crowded.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2015

I spent last week holed up in a cabin, working on my forthcoming book, The Art of Relevance. The book is a deep account of repatriation of spiritual objects from museums to native people, written by museum people and Blackfoot people together. Museums believed it held the bundles legally, purchased through documented sales.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Not because of the unusually big grants, but because most of them are members of our TechSoup family. A panel of community advisors reviewed the submissions, and chose 25 finalists – all of whom won significant grants. TechSoup Members Among the Top 10 Finalists ($250,000 to $500,000 Grant Winners). 500,000 Grant Winners.

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