Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

A fundraising email is not the right place to thank Board members, reflect on events that already happened, spotlight a wonderful volunteer, or highlight a major donor. You can be their hero and change their life.”. For example: “Many teen girls struggle with their self-esteem thanks to Instagram and Snapchat. Add a new service?

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Results email Fundraising Story 122

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them. Types of nonprofit strategic plans Different circumstances and goals will require different types of nonprofit strategic plans.

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Examples Guide Model Nonprofit 117

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. MySpace is reflection of the society in which we live. The mother from Missouri that pretended to be a teen boy and cyberbullied a young girl to the point where she committed suicide.Tragic yes, but MySpace’s fault?

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Myspace Teen Facebook Social Network 190

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

We had a range of participants at different levels and a room with fixed seats or what I call “University Lecture” style. While this was a little at odds with an interactive format, we made it work. It was a change in their daily routines of publishing content: now they had to get a source code for each hyperlink they inserted.

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Measure Data Facilitation Teen 98

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary.

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Museum Director History Teen 49

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The behavior of people is hard to change and can take time – usually more time than you’d like. Your organization serves and supports the challenges real people face, so why wouldn’t your creative reflect those people? When developing the creative for your cause, consider these three elements to set your movement up for success: 1.

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Teen Social Empowerment Audience 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

This post outlines what I see as the opportunities and challenges for different kinds of museums in pursuing participatory visitor engagement. They also want to avoid stories or perspectives that reflect hateful or offensive views toward other people. They are frequently about real people's stories.

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Museum Difference Participatory History 29

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

We are so focused on getting things done, checking it off the to do list and the forward momentum that it requires, that we miss an important opportunity to hit the pause button, reflect, and improve process. Being intentional about learning can also help an organization scale effectively.

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Knowledge Process Share Organization 100

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

We thought so, so we put together a short list of items we felt could trigger meaningful conversations just in time for end-of-year reflection and 2019 planning. . This is quite different than the past, when someone would support multiple causes and was generally satisfied with the noble act of giving back itself. .

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Organization Disaster Boston Blackbaud 26

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

You do not need to be an “artist” to make a postcard, but each participant is surprised and delighted by their creativity and to see that their cards contain colors, words and images that reflect their strongest selves. Connecting personal wisdom to effect positive change is our goal. Each card is a piece of art in my mind.

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

By the time my mom was at the Bay Area Discovery Museum, I was in my late teens/twenties, and I started to know the board socially, including Bob Fisher, who is now very involved with SFMOMA. Programmatic engagement is a very different story. But I do think some of these examples are really something very different.

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Museum Generation Interview Donor 54

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information. Judgment ???

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Participatory Teen Vlog Mashup 50

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

We decided to start with teen girls, ninth through twelfth grade, and with the notion that that's when as a young girl we're beginning to make important decisions about college, about life steps, and about goals. Creativity: to really explore coloring outside the lines, and doing things differently. We came up with our first program.

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Interview Costa Rica Teen Green 42

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

But since so many years of work have gone into the TRC’s report, it is also useful to reflect on the broader role of the TRC in Liberia as well as truth commissions around the world. IRR measures whether different coders, given the same source material, produce the same quantitative output (e.g. Liberian children.

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Liberia Statistics Analysis United States 100

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

How do you overcome institutional resistance to change and uncertainty to do something wild and hopeful? What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? I worked on one project in which the client institution thought they wanted unfettered teen expression. These transactions will make change possible.

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Project Museum Teen North Carolina 22

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

MacArthur wants to know: How is digital media changing the way that children learn and develop and what are the implications? "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. Young people have access to computers in schools and libraries, but there is a difference in the quality of experience.

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Digital Learning Media Avatar 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

What hope do you have that virtual worlds will be reacted to any differently? He somewhat dodged the answer, saying that MacArthur wanted to learn how to work with virtual worlds, to convene people and to bring virtual projects into making real world change. Teen Listening Party and Global Kids coverage. Virtual to Reality Blog.

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Virtual Philanthropy Foundation Second Life 50

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

We trust different people and institutions in different ways--to be respectful, to keep our secrets, to give us love, to give us information. You may remember the NPR stories in 2007 about changes in the way that doctors acknowledge mistakes and offer apologies. I'm reading a book of essays about how to teach written by teens.

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Participatory Museum Teen Voice 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities. This is a teen magazine-style flowchart quiz that takes you through a series of simple scenarios and decisions to determine what type of collector you are (based on five major types as defined by psychologists).

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Participatory Museum History International 44

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

Five stakeholders in different cities want to see the work that's been done so far. Where else can you find Pakistani bathroom signage or Mexican biker teens while researching a project? You can set up automatic emails to go out when things change on the site. Your boss is in California picking out antique fountains.

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Flickr Work Photo Teen 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

By understanding what individuals are highlighting about the Exploratorium experience, the museum can craft its own messaging--and programming--to reflect and enhance the elements seen as most valuable. a completely different side of the Exploratorium (also because I was drinking all night). Good listening breeds potential.

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Museum Teen Second Life Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I'd always believed in engineering as a creative path to changing the world, and my professors encouraged that mindset. I believe that setting that expectation at the outset made a big difference both in my eventual pay and the responsibilities offered to me. But internship after internship didn't live up to those expectations.

Museum 52

Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Besides having the longest name on the planet, the Taylor Center is one of my greatest inspirations when it comes to an institution authentically and whole-heartedly making a difference in the lives of underserved community members. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. YES changes that.

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St. Louis Museum Audience Teen 45

Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

We all have problems getting in the door—they’re just different doors. Cultural icons serve many important purposes, but these, I have reluctantly begun to realize, may be quite different from, and perhaps mutually exclusive with, museums focused on community well-being. Some are simple design choices—like at the MFA.

People 20

People Museum San Jose Chapter 20

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So one of the things that I’ve talked about a ton over the last year has been about wellness and wellbeing and what it means to lead in a changing time. Some late hours at different times, for sure. Whew, listen, we all have had a time of it and what I saw over and over again, and so I’m no different from you.

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Management Work Video Slides 87

Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Besides having the longest name on the planet, the Taylor Center is one of my greatest inspirations when it comes to an institution authentically and whole-heartedly making a difference in the lives of underserved community members. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. YES changes that.

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St. Louis Audience Teen Museum 53

Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Nearly 70% of users are under 35 , and 72% of teens use Instagram. As above, your content should be visually focused, so unique, high-quality imagery that reflects your nonprofit’s values and branding is essential. You can read more about why you should use Instagram Business on the Constant Contact blog. What and when should I post?

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Guide Beginner Social Media Nonprofit 40

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Here are a few things I learned from this session: Self-censorship is different in different museum types. Our desire to "protect kids"--which reflects twenty years of clamping down (at least in the U.S.) In science and technology centers, there are some “can’t”s that are alive and well in other museums.

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Museum Professional Teen Map 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Changing lives is expensive whether you do it with at-risk teen staff members or at-risk teen virtual partners. Or are you primarily interested in reflecting and presenting local content and perspectives? The short answer is pithy: it's different for every institution. So what's it worth?

Virtual 20

Virtual Museum North Carolina Evaluation 20

DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing guidelines, and a disrupted economy have all completely changed business-as-usual for nonprofits. This means that web design projects (and even smaller, iterative updates) are important investments for nonprofits, and they can involve any number of different strategies and techniques.

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Websites Organization Nonprofit Game 52

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I was talking this week with Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project (an alternative arts space in LA), about different models for community engagement in cultural institutions. At one point, he commented that there's a difference between the "framework" and the "sensibility" for engagement. Adam is a master of sensibility.

Voice 42

Voice Los Angeles Denver Museum 42

DipJar

AUGUST 24, 2022

These include the library’s Teen Squad, currently focused on coding and understanding and working with data; an active small business network; learning circles, essentially programs that are co-created and co-led by the community; adult education focused on workforce development; citizenship services and support; and English language learning.

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Library Public Local Reflection 105