Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Celebrate the season by sending cards that show your support of American Humane Association’s mission – to create a more humane and compassionate world by ending abuse and neglect of children and animals. Anderson Cancer Center Children’s Art Project :: View Collection. Museum of Modern Art :: View Collection.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The temporary AGI limit increase from 60% to 100% on itemized charitable deductions for cash gifts is extended for 2021. In all other years, donors who made significant gifts could only deduct up to 60% of AGI. The gifts must be cash, not stocks or property. Why not do your donors a solid by letting them know?

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

Impact Nonprofit Donor Databases: The Ultimate Guide 35 min read Read Now 6 Ways to Segment Your Donor Data Segmenting donors by campaigns supported, giving behavior, gift size, engagement levels, lapsing donors and archetypes are all helpful in different ways. To see how this works in action, we can use a common scenario as an example.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Museums have used games to engage visitors for decades. SR: I came to games before I came to museums. My grandmother cheated at Candyland and uno. :) Games, I think, have a nice Venn diagram of overlap between museum lovers. I love thinking we're getting new museum lovers through games. How did you get into museum games?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Well, one of the families we were able to work with as a result of your gift just moved into their own apartment! The mom has a job at a museum cafe, the older kids are in school, and the youngest attends a wonderful daycare center we are so fortunate to partner with. What gift do we want the donor to make? Your gift of $29.88

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DipJar

JANUARY 28, 2022

But the Gardens aren’t the only draw, it shares a campus with several other organizations: a heritage village, an art museum, the Extension services, as well as the county parks department. . It also operates a small gift shop. The second is the creation of the Majeed Discovery Garden for children.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Online fundraising is extremely cost-effective compared to other types of fundraising campaigns, and our Generational Giving Report revealed that almost 55% of donors prefer to go online to make a gift. Matching gifts drive. Partner with a corporate sponsor or a major gifts supporter to host a matching gifts drive.

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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. Revenue Streams: Museums want to maintain control of sales of "officially sanctioned" images of objects via catalogues and postcards.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

I’m looking for a place to donate in honor of my mother’s 90 th birthday, and a gift made to the local symphony orchestra in Myrtle Beach seemed like the right thing to do. You gravitated toward the museum, zoo, gallery, symphony, cultural management organization because of your roots. Loyalty gifts can work in your favor.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2019

Visitor (though, really my child) at the Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK As I said, last week, I’ve been to a travelin’ girl for the last couple of years. So, instead, I am offering 3 posts this month about what I learned from visiting more than 300 museums. Last week, I talked about what I learned about museum workers.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Donors love to know that their money was leveraged, and with matching gifts, they’re essentially giving two gifts for the price of one. In fact, one of the main reasons why Millennials donate is because they know their gift will be matched. Matching gifts are also a great way to boost donations mid-campaign.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 4, 2023

For example, a CRM designed specifically for museums might emphasize their ticketing features, whereas a CRM for general nonprofits might have some registration tools but lack a built-in ticketing component. Carl lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife Sarah and their two children Charlie and Evelyn. Applications.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 14, 2015

There are plenty of great arguments out there for WHY to make museums free. It''s much easier for art and history museums than for those museums that rely on admissions for a majority of their income (science, children''s). Nationally, admissions income generates only 1-4% of most art museums'' annual revenue.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Last week, as part of my museum's year-long Loyalty Lab project , we hosted a workshop for Bay Area museum professionals with special guests Ian Kizu-Blair and Sam Lavigne of the game design firm Situate. Our goal was to help people see the museum as a Friday night habit. When you mastered arcane rules to achieve your goal.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2020

In this package, adjusted gross income limits on charitable deductions are suspended or adjusted for cash gifts made by individuals and corporations. Children and Family Services Programs – $1.9 Institute of Museum and Library Services – $50 Million. Adjusted Gross Income Limitation. Community Services Block Grant – $1 Billion.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 2, 2018

Disa McAlister, MNLM, is the founder of the Museum of Science and Sustainability, a portable museum serving the Greater Phoenix area. She was the license holder and head curator for TEDxMesa, has worked with gifted youth, youth in crisis and children with special needs. Government Executive. Retrieved from [link].

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

Organizations that raised the most money invested more in staff, in securing major gifts, and in overall fundraising capacity. Higher education – Cultivating major gifts. ” Those outings can include activities for families and children, and can pave the way for additional gifts. .”

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Of that 106+ million people looking to give, there are about well over 20 million Americans who might be torn between buying a gift for a loved one or friend and giving to charity. I'm really looking forward to seeing my teenage daughter when she learns she's getting manure - She'll be happy when she learns it supports Oxfam.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

It’s also a time for gifts and new clothes, making this a great chance to raise funds or donations of new clothing, especially for children. Reach out to talented local artists, galleries, and museums to see if they can donate pieces, workshops, or behind-the-scenes tours to support your cause. Art Show and Silent Auction.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

But then I started finding more humble projects related to broader issues, and I began to see Kickstarter as a potentially fascinating space for museums and cultural institutions. game and the Neversink Valley Museum's capital campaign launch materials. The museum's page is much simpler.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2017

This is the second installation in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. We started designing ways to make Abbott Square a desirable “first landing place” in downtown—especially for families with children.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 21, 2009

When I moved across the country, a friend gave me a gift of a National Parks passport. 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. Museums don’t work that way.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And if you think about this pie chart, what I really want to call out is that bequests, which are about 9%, are gifts made by individuals. You know, one of the things about being a donor, it’s not just giving a gift, it’s building a strong culture of philanthropy.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They take care of your facility, give tours of your museum, welcome attendees to your annual gala, and pass out medals at fundraising races. A corporate sponsorship usually involves a sponsor supporting an event, donating auction items, or giving a monetary gift to help you meet a fundraising goal.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Barbara worked for my Dad at the Mystic Seaport Museum , and every year she would knit gifts for my parents and I. When I was growing up, every Christmas I would get a bumpy package with a card that said, For: Britt, From: Barbara Gould in criss-crossy handwriting. One year she made each of us a sweater with a story.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Lori’s gift is to help nonprofit organizations communicate powerfully so they raise exponentially more money. Paul is also a children’s book author who collaborates with his twin brother and NY Times #1 Best-Selling Author/Illustrator, Peter H. ignitedfundraising.com.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2017

58% of crowdsourced gifts were made on a mobile device – Your mobile strategy is no longer optional. In this example, Center for Global Impact centered their campaign on a major gift that was earmarked as a match. Source: Millennial Impact Report ]. Your supporters expect fundraising tools that are accessible via a mobile device.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

This is the final installment of Museum 2.0’s s book club on Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions , a collection of essays edited by Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean. Ultimately, the arguments against including visitor voices come down to a lack of respect for visitors as meaning-makers in museums. It seems so basic.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2016

By 2015, the Elks Lodge had become a haven for LGBT parents of young children. The greatest gift that insiders can give outsiders is to help them build new doors. It took until the mid-1990s for women and people of color to be eligible for membership, and even then, most Elks Lodges stayed white, male, and aging. I didn’t get it.

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

Recently, Save the Children partnered with NFDoge, a platform that sells “Non-Fungible Doge” artwork. community of fundraisers, here are a few tips, courtesy of our friend at Doctors Without Borders, Marc Almanzor, Senior Manager of Gift Processing (and Twitch Affiliate!): . If you do decide to pursue this new—potentially huge!—community

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. I asked a few people I trust who are not museum folks to read the third draft. Check out the other parts here.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was exhilarating to see them inspired to create their own meanings in response: lovers whispering together in alcoves, people of all ages writing and drawing on walls and post-its, children painting, everyone sitting rapt before screens. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2007

There have been some fun semantic jousting matches recently on the ASTC listserv about the difference between science museums and science centers. And earlier last month, the Museum of Television and Radio announced a name change to the Paley Center for Media. And more importantly, will it attract more visitors, members, and gifts?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2015

Once again, words like “gift” and “Holiday” were very popular. The best end-to-end campaign was done by the Museum of Modern Art. LAST CHANCE: Make a 2014 gift to protect rainforests. Just hours left to double your gift for animals. Last day to make your 2014 year-end gift! The Last Night.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Since many of your board members are professionals in the charitable space, they likely know other high impact supporters to contact and request gifts from. Participants garner support from their friends and family leading up to the big day and accept gifts during the game itself. Then, divide your participants into teams.

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NTEN

MAY 3, 2011

In "The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty" , Princeton University professor Peter Singer famously highlights one study in which individuals who were shown a picture of a girl named Rokia and told her story were willing to give far more than when asked to help three million hungry children in Malawi. You'd be wrong.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Variations on “Gift” and “Give” were very popular this year. Several organizations have developed very successful year-end matching gift campaigns. Very innovative and clever way to turn something only seen by fundraisers to help drive year-end gifts. RE: Urgent deadline: all gifts DOUBLED!

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