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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

Museum 2.0

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. Often, organizations adopt a service model that is strictly needs-based. While needs are important, this service model can be demeaning and disempowering. It's pretty simple.

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New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

Museum 2.0

as physical analogs to virtual community platforms. On 8.16.08, the Museum of Art and History (Santa Cruz, CA) hosted FreelanceCamp, a free unconference that brought 150 designers and techies from the south bay area together to talk shop. Other person: Nope. Me: Me neither. Heck, it doesn't even attract the museum exhibit designers.

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Participatory Design Vs. Design for Participation: Exploring the Difference

Museum 2.0

I once worked on a project where the main goal behind our community-based participatory model was to make our exhibit process faster and cheaper. And that's a major monkey wrench in the standard models for how museums operate, staff, and fund their work. Do true participatory platforms need participatory design processes behind them?

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Visitor Voices Part 3: Co-Creating and Control

Museum 2.0

There is the Art Gallery of Ontario's portrait exhibition In Your Face , for which the museum solicited and displayed thousands of visitor-created self-portraits. More experimental are the projects where the museum sets up a platform for visitor co-creation and then lets the visitors run with it.

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Fundraising 101: Understand the Basics of Fundraising so You Can Fund Your Dream

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When you embrace this donor-based model of thinking about the needs and desires of your donors, fundraising gets easier. Maybe they love the food bank but don’t care about the arts. For a self-esteem program for teen girls : Showing every teen girl how awesome she is. a teen girl with a huge, confident smile.

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What I Learned From @Sree Sreenivasan Chief Digital Officer of @MetMuseum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Later, when were chatting with a small group of people in the lobby, we noticed a group of teens walking by looking a little sad. Everything Is In Service of the Art: The met has over 70 staff members on its digital team. Artists have been using the right tool at the right time to make art. They go where the audience is.

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14 Top Nonprofit Websites to Inspire Your Organization

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Let’s walk through a selection of unique nonprofit websites that not only incorporate these elements but go above and beyond to impress visitors and inspire donations: Interlochen Center for the Arts. Top Nonprofit Website: Interlochen Center for the Arts. North Shore Animal League. Mustard Seed Communities. Gooley Hemophilia Center.