Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

Similar to the list I shared for nonprofits focusing on education , arts and culture tends to be a very popular issue area for American foundations. The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Areas served: Worldwide.

Arts 73

Arts Grant Culture Fund 73

DipJar

JANUARY 28, 2022

Managed by the Pinellas County Parks and Conservation Resources Department, the Gardens are free and open to the public year-round. 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.

Florida 52

Florida Foundation Environment Conservancy 52

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. But effort and efficacy are not the same.

Museum 21

Museum Culture Professional Training 21

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. Yes, some people (especially vocal museum staff!) But what about visitors?

Museum 54

Museum Photo Policy Open 54

Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

Higher education – Cultivating major gifts. A rebounding economy and long-term investment in major gift donors paid off for colleges and universities in 2013, said John Lippincott, president of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). . “It costs money to bring in money,” McGinly said.

Communication 38

Communication Results Disaster Fundraising 38

Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

Museums have been grappling with this question for years ( here's a 2007 roundup of such projects ), most aggressively in zoos and natural history museums where staff hope to inspire conservation and in history/concept museums that focus on civic engagement and activism. No small task for a museum exhibition.

Story 47

Story Participatory Museum History 47

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

We still produce exhibitions, events, and educational programs for an audience, but that audience is just one of our major constituencies. Relative to other museums, I think we spend less time producing an "onstage" experience and more time collaborating with community organizations behind the scenes to empower them to produce.

San Diego 20

San Diego Work Museum Model 20

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

Examples of numbered lists include, “Five Reasons Why Conserving Wildlife is Important,” “Ten Simple Ways to Serve Your Local Community,” “Nine Powerful Stats about Domestic Violence in America,” and “Six Reasons Why You Should Read to Your Children.” Or an arts organization could write about the top 10 museums to visit in a lifetime.

Content 100

Content Ideas Summary Stats 100

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

It's Labor Day, and across the country, a working dichotomy is manifest in museums. How often should educators, designers, and execs push back from their desks, throw on a nametag, and walk the floor? For mostly practical reasons, museum staff offices have shifted over the last couple decades further and further from the public.

Museum 20

Museum Second Life Ipod Avatar 20

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2015

The best end-to-end campaign was done by the Museum of Modern Art. My multichannel award goes to The Nature Conservancy. But only one nonprofit, The Nature Conservancy, sent me a text message with a donation ask. Give Hope to Children this Holiday Season. Happy Holidays from Boston Children’s Hospital.

email 20

email South Carolina Fundraising Gift 20

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Best Innovation in Graphics: This one goes to Lifeline Children’s Services for showing a giving pyramid inside the email noting how many gifts of each level they had received and still needed to get. The Nature Conservancy gets the Best Text Message Award for the second year in a row. Countdown for our children.

email 20

email Fundraising Gift Children 20

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Interactive, web-based ebooks are coming and will transform education and publishing in the near future, but until the technology arrives, you can copy and paste the text below in Word document. Follow and study UNICEF , SOS Children’s Villages , ONE Campaign , National Park Foundation , and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Mobile 265

Mobile Social Fundraising Social Media 265

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2007

It's late at night at the Museum Curator smackdown. Museum folks often talk about the time decades ago when museums began to shift from places for objects to places for visitors. My background is in science and children's museums, where it's relatively easy to keep visitors in the foreground. Is the fix in?

Museum 20

Museum Donor Arts Artist 20