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Finding Your Perfect Love: Grant Writing Tips for Nonprofit Organizations

NonProfit Hub

You will learn, rework, resubmit new proposals, and eventually land the perfect one and put a ring on it. For more details on how each of these categories break down, take a look at the Minnesota Council on Foundation’s Common Types of Grants article. Let me know in the comments section below. Now for the slightly scary stuff.

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Month at the Museum, Part 1: A Video Contest that Delivers

Museum 2.0

I hope you'll weigh in with your own favorites and observations in the comments. There's the guy who proposes to his girlfriend. Here are the videos that intrigued me most in several categories, so you can waste minutes, not hours, exploring. Overall favorite. I loved this video by Tracie Farrell. Personal overshare.

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How Much Time Does Web 2.0 Take?

Museum 2.0

When David explained that each of the Holocaust Museum’s myriad comment boards, blogs, and online forums is moderated by a staff member, the audience turned a little green. If reviews include incorrect information, add your own comment giving helpful information about hours, prices, and new cool things people might like. the comments.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

Museum 2.0

When you speak in the language of the institutional mission, executives will understand you better and be attentive to the new connections you draw from the mission to proposed projects. The Minnesota History Center team solicited visitor nominations for exhibition topics and then built an exhibition out of those contributions.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Public Insight Network in Minnesota is a network of 75,000 people who help make Minnesota Public Radio News by sharing their observations, insights, and experiences with reporters and editors who may share these insights through a story or on the web site. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&#

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Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation

Amy Sample Ward

Below, I’ve shared my keynote remarks and slides and I hope you’ll share your ideas and further the conversation in the comments. It sounded great, until her last comment: She told me that it was a really important program, because libraries are the heart of the community…well, in elementary schools at least.

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Sustaining Innovation Book Discussion Part 1: What Does it Take Innovate Naturally and Frequently?

Museum 2.0

To write the book, Light selected and studied 26 innovative non-profits and government agencies across Minnesota during the mid-90s. Of the 26, two are museumish: the Minnesota Zoo and the Walker Art Center, and three are arts organizations: Artspace, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater and Theatre de la Jeune Lune.