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10 Online Fundraising Tools to Watch in 2021

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Designed to inspire generosity in children, members are mailed monthly postcards featuring nonprofits and then the family can listen to the impact of their giving through Alexa. It’s ideal for museums, zoos, and any place that accepts point-of-sale donations. Good for restaurants struggling during COVID-19 and nonprofits.

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Press Here: Breaking the Fourth Wall in Children's Books. and Museums?

Museum 2.0

You open a children''s book. Either I''m really sleep-deprived, or Press Here is the most brilliant interactive children''s book ever. Either I''m really sleep-deprived, or Press Here is the most brilliant interactive children''s book ever. This makes me wonder: how do we break the fourth wall in museums?

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Nonprofit Membership Models: The What, Why, and How

Neon CRM

Stronger Advocacy: There’s strength in numbers, and a strong membership base provides organizations with more voices to amplify their cause, advocate for policy changes, influence the community, and raise awareness for their mission. Define your value proposition for members to illustrate how your membership model benefits them.

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MuseumCamp 2014: Experiments in Social Impact Assessment

Museum 2.0

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. People x (Food + Place) looked at photos taken by children in a park to understand what contributed to their sense of community.

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How nonprofits can attract and retain high-quality employees

ASU Lodestar Center

While salaries can influence the retention and recruitment of employees, a potential employee’s intrinsic motivations related to the mission and social connection to the organization also relates back to the satisfaction of that employee with their jobs. Lipp in “Keeping the Volunteers You Have.”.

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Museums, Church, and Doable Evangelism

Museum 2.0

I often think museums are like church--passionately loved by staff and devout audiences, irrelevant or off-putting to lapsed or uninterested adults, alien and overwhelming to newcomers. Two years ago, my dad and I embarked on a podcast project called Museum Hater. Help people understand why you do what you do. What do you think?

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. Most of my work involves museums, but these categories can be useful in any project that involves user participation. They have some influence over the direction of the project but don’t steer it themselves. Wiki users are often collaborators.

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