DipJar

JANUARY 28, 2022

The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission is to create an environment at the Gardens that allows the community to come together for education, inspiration, and enjoyment. The community the Gardens serves is large and diverse, with people from the region, around the country, and around the world.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. Founder Adam Braun started the organization with a dream of creating educational infrastructure in the communities that need it most and a deposit of just $25.

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Technology New York City Donor New York 83

Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Livability Index scores neighborhoods and communities across the U.S. and presents detailed data from more than 50 sources on 61 key factors that most affect their residents’ lives, including housing, neighborhood amenities and conveniences, transportation, environment, health, opportunities for civic engagement, and inclusiveness.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Livability Index scores neighborhoods and communities across the U.S. and presents detailed data from more than 50 sources on 61 key factors that most affect their residents’ lives, including housing, neighborhood amenities and conveniences, transportation, environment, health, opportunities for civic engagement, and inclusiveness.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

GOLD – Community Website. The Livability Index scores neighborhoods and communities across the U.S. The Livability Index scores neighborhoods and communities across the U.S. the African American community. Here are this year’s winners. AARP Livability Index. Pacific Science Center. GOLD – Science Website.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 10, 2021

November 20, 2021 is Family Volunteer Day – a global day of service that celebrates the power of families who work together to support their communities and neighborhoods. For generations, parents and their children have responded to the needs of neighbors, organizations, and their community by rolling up their sleeves and working together.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums?

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Classroom Children Museum Model 22

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. We are trying to change the visitors’ experience at the museum as well as ownership of what is in the museum, break down the walls between the public and the museum.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

In the aftermath of a disaster, whether it be a devastating hurricane that has left your community flooded or a wildfire that has forced your community to leave their homes behind, you’ll need to mobilize quickly to provide support. Virtual tours for museums. Emergency campaigns. Virtual peer-to-peer run/walk/ride.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. When, on the other hand, amateurs had the opportunity to help design scientific questions or disseminate research results, they often felt more ownership of the project and greater interest in using scientific methods to address their own community needs.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

People often ask me which museums are my favorite. I visit lots of perfectly nice, perfectly forgettable museums. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. By calling ourselves a museum, we respond to those cultural institutions that have separated practice from production, exhibition from process, and work from play.

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Collaboration North Carolina Museum Artist 36

Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

On a recent trip to DC, an old friend showed me around a new exhibit at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide. The paper is perforated with one section for the promise, which visitors keep, and another section for a signature, which visitors leave at the museum.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

The presumed answer is "yes" your museum needs a blog, a pony, or a set of comfy couches. Does your museum need a custom online social network? Many museums have been experimenting in these spaces by creating institutional profiles, museum affinity groups, and connecting with visitors and other museum professionals individually.

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Museum Social Network Case Study Discussion 20

Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

Museums have shifted the focus of their fundraising to better address demand from donors who want to know the difference their gift makes, said Ford Bell, president of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). Environment – Connecting with donors. Human services – Communication and planning.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 21, 2009

I’ve often wondered why I’ve never seen a museum with a punch card system. But many large museum membership database systems are dismal at tracking members’ or visitors’ repeat attendance. But many large museum membership database systems are dismal at tracking members’ or visitors’ repeat attendance.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Vu is a writer, speaker, vegan, Pisces, and the Executive Director of Rainier Valley Corps, a nonprofit in Seattle that promotes social justice by developing leaders of color, strengthening organizations led by communities of color,= and fostering collaboration between diverse communities. Julie Hirshey. philadelphiaeagles.com.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Game Culture Change Museum 52

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. what is the value of the exhibition experience to non-participants, that is, regular museum visitors?

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

little more traditional you can give museum membership or buy that Andy Warhol replica that would look great in the hallway.the really neat thing about shopping online from charity is it is easy to find the perfect gift for anyone – even the person that has it all.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Not only did we make the list one time – we made it eight times with two gold wins for non-profit and cultural institution websites and six silver wins for apps and websites in non-profits, health, families and kids, the environment and sustainability, science, and education.

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Award Museum Kansas City Drupal 88

Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

into the museum is the potential to encourage more positive in-museum interactions among strangers. I want in-person museum experiences to be more like experiences on social sites like Flickr, where strangers connect and form relationships around content. A lot of what interests me about bringing 2.0

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Last week, I had the honor and pleasure of giving a talk at an institution I''ve long admired: the Taylor Community Science Resource Center at the St. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. blog posts from the past. Louis Science Center.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And what we’re seeing is that while this is encouraging, the numbers are going up, nonprofit boards are still far from representing the communities that they serve. Next, it’ll allow us to cultivate trust and confidence with the communities that we serve. Okay, so positive trend.

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Leadership Fundraising Gift Slides 64

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2009

I counted 8 different museums represented in a 45 minute viewing of one show on The History Channel. As a successful dentist, he wants his family to give back to the community and use their talents and blessings to help other. One, I think it is important that people realize the impact of nonprofits on the community.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

I firmly believe that all people have something meaningful to contribute to our communities, cultural work, and society at large--including youth. He explains that FoodWhat graduates get jobs all over the community—that pretty much any place you might want to work, there’s probably FoodWhat alumni there. That gets them excited.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Last week, I had the honor and pleasure of giving a talk at an institution I've long admired: the Taylor Community Science Resource Center at the St. Diane is both visionary and no-nonsense about deconstructing the barriers that many low-income and non-white teenagers and families face when entering a museum. Louis Science Center.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This year, the American Association of Museums annual conference was in Los Angeles (my hometown). I hosted two sessions, one on design for participation and the other on mission-driven museum technology development. He started with museums as a "place to go"--to see things, consume experiences.

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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Here's the basic idea: while you are at the museum, you save digitizable content--either content you make (photos of yourself) or content you collect (museum-supplied text or media of interest). The personal webpage has many adherents, and some institutions, like The Tech Museum in San Jose, have been offering them for almost a decade.

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Personal Museum Pledge San Jose 34

Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

This is the penultimate installment of Museum 2.0's s book club on Elaine Gurian's collection of essays, Civilizing the Museum. NMAI opened to the public in fall of 2004, and has endured very mixed reviews for its presentation of the Indian experience largely from the perspective of native communities, not curators or historians.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Today, we take a page from Wallace Stevens and look at some alternative ways to structure museum admissions and pricing. What if visitors could stream into the museum, with the expectation that at some point they would encounter a staff member who could facilitate the purchase of admission? Get rid of the admissions desk.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. The book is intended to be a practical guide to participatory museum experiences focused on design strategies, case studies, and activities. I’m using a wiki to do so, and a few intrepid generous folks have signed up to give feedback on the evolving draft.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

We share an abiding interest in exploring the community-enhancing roles of libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs), especially in terms of the practice of hospitality and service within the institution. Nina's research keeps finding that the right kind of constraints work to produce a better participatory museum experience.

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