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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

Get Fully Funded

For the purposes of our exercise, let’s say our story takes place in India. For our fictitious story, the plot is that many children only eat one meal a day — dinner. For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school. Setting: This is where your story happens. Your donation of $7.32

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How to Navigate the Post-COVID Novel Nonprofit Economy

Bloomerang

I suggest using these as a brainstorming exercise with your team (executive management; development; board or whoever your key stakeholders are) to develop the raw material you’ll need to create a future-facing strategic plan that speaks to the times in which we’re living. Please read my article linked above; let’s then explore further. .

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Games Games Games

Museum 2.0

In any case, when I was a kid, growing up on Long Island, the newly opened Hall of Gems and Minerals at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) was like a mysterious dark cave for my sister and I to explore, ever on a hunt for gems. Also, familiarity with game design techniques, and tools, and exercises, and processes.

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Designing Interactives for Adults: Put Down the Dayglow

Museum 2.0

In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. We've been trying to actively combat this at The Museum of Art & History (MAH) in Santa Cruz. I was initially totally skeptical that people would actually engage in what sounds like a potentially uncomfortably personal or complicated exercise.

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Benetech and the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Benetech Analyzes Human Rights Data for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission A Guest Beneblog post by Kristen Cibelli Our team at the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) has recently concluded a three-year project with Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help clarify Liberia's violent history.

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Techniques for Identifying and Amplifying Social Objects in Museums

Museum 2.0

It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect. I noticed a trend: children posed with the smaller mice, whereas adults stood with the largest one. There are two parts to the workshop: Social Object Hunt.

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Update: Nonprofits - Power and Influence in our lives

Connection Cafe

I counted 8 different museums represented in a 45 minute viewing of one show on The History Channel. Trying to beat the 105-degree heat and get my son and his sleep-over buddy some exercise we went for a round or two of Laser Tag. One of the impressions was a bit ironic.