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Anyone Who Says this isn't a Business is Nuts.

Museum 2.0

In the Netherlands, State Secretary for Culture Halbe Zijlstra slashed 200 million euros from the national budget for the arts, leading to the close of the innovative National History Museum project and crippling many superbly inventive and inspiring organizations like Mediamatic and the Waag Society. Well, they only cost me $8 apiece.

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Minnesota Open Idea: Crowdsourcing Contest For Social Change Done Right

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Minnesota Open Idea is an example of an online social good contest that works. In this interview, Jennifer Ford Reedy , VP for Strategy and Knowledge Management, at the Minnesota Community Foundation shares the how they designed this online social good contest for success. What was your judging process?

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5 Types of People Who Need Nonprofit Fundraising Training

Achieve

Mary’s University of Minnesota. If we’re just talking about methods, there’s major gifts, bequests and trusts, corporate relations, grant proposals, direct mail, social media, virtual and in-person events. you rely on events, direct response (mail, email and social media) and grant proposals? Well, he was wrong.

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Month at the Museum, Part 1: A Video Contest that Delivers

Museum 2.0

There's the guy who proposes to his girlfriend. There's this would-be astronaut from the Art Institute of Chicago, an educator/artist from the Science Museum of Minnesota, an educator from LA's natural history museum, a technologist from Sci-Port, even a Texan librarian. Personal overshare. Museum staffers.

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The #1 Skill Nonprofit Professionals Should Focus on in 2021

DipJar

Imagine you run a performing arts organization dedicated to saving theater programs in your local public school system. For any gift, whether that from direct mail or a foundation proposal, you need all three. Mary’s University of Minnesota. In short, you need to define their CIA : capacity, interest, and access. .

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

Museum 2.0

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.” When you speak in the language of the institutional mission, executives will understand you better and be attentive to the new connections you draw from the mission to proposed projects.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Annual Conference. Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Annual Conference. Minnesota Council of Nonprofits / Duluth, MN / $299. Join the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits for our 2016 Annual Conference. National Arts Marketing Project Conference. National Arts Marketing Project Conference.