Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

It became an overnight viral sensation and cultural phenomena. Rather than chaining game players to their computer screens inside their houses, it sends players roaming their neighborhoods and communities to play the game. Perhaps its appeal is an escape from all the bad things that are happening the world right now. A Few Concerns.

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2012

One small organization, for example, is using text messages to communicate with teens who participate in a mentoring program. A staff member observed that, though all the teens carried cell phones and used them frequently, few would answer phone calls or emails. Can your organization replicate these kinds of results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

In November, the Chase Community Giving. The top 100 included a mix of nonprofits with an operating budget of under $10 million with programs in designated Chase corporate responsibility areas: education, health care, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare. .

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

FoodWhat's staff and teens have taught me a lot about what it really means to be relevant to people who are often overlooked or ignored. I firmly believe that all people have something meaningful to contribute to our communities, cultural work, and society at large--including youth. First, Doron throws fruit to the crowd.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. We work hard to name and build our culture in many ways. Naming our goals and our culture. Naming fears, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

I believe that, too, and I love working for an organization — Common Sense Media , an independent nonprofit — that’s dedicated to preparing kids to make the most of the incredible opportunities this networked culture provides us, while overcoming its potential pitfalls. Instant updates to your whole community?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

Imagine the most community-based science center possible. Imagine it in a poor, immigrant farmworker community. In a Community Science Workshop. A couple months ago, I visited a Community Science Workshop for the first time in Watsonville, CA. Can you give me the overview of Community Science Workshops? It thrives.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Whoever your community is, they decide. Can you define the community to whom you want to be relevant? The community decides what is relevant to them. Who interprets the interests of the community and decides on the relevant themes and activities for the year? Then, we define the needs and assets of that community.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Takeaway #1: Think holistically about your program . Technology is dramatically changing the way we work and live our lives, and the social good community needs to account for this digital transformation that demands increased transparency and also opens new doors. Foster a data culture, and a testing culture .

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This week, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released a new paper by Holly Sidford called Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change. We may say that we want to support programming and cultural opportunities for low-income and non-white people, but that's not where the money is going. The title may sound innocuous.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

On Thursday afternoon, our workshop fractured as curators, educators, media producers, and marketing staff scrambled to talk to press and put together spur-of-the-moment exhibits and tribute programs. It is apropos that the EMPSFM workshop was focused on how the museum can deepen relationships with teen audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

As Wyman’s Teen Outreach Program® began to be replicated across the nation, the need to capture learning in a more sophisticated way grew right along with the growth of replication. Being intentional about learning can also help an organization scale effectively. Create a Staff Engagement Strategy. Conduct an Organizational Audit.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

I have clients that have mobilized entire communities and Facebook groups around advocacy and around, especially for people that are in very niche communities, like, rare diseases or communities that have a lot of stigma where they need like a private group, so they can have a safe space to talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

We’ve pledged to award more than $20 million to support innovative ideas that move communities forward. million to the winning ideas across six categories, including: Health, Arts & Culture, Food & Shelter, The Planet, Neighborhoods and Education. Anyone can apply for a grant and the public decides who wins.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We created Race Through Time in partnership with a local networking group called Santa Cruz Next , whose primary aim is to support and celebrate ways that young professionals can and are changing our community for the better. Performances just for teens. Late night mixers at museums for young adults.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

Sarah has worked at the Walker since 1992 and is currently the Director of Education and Community Programs. It's easier to secure grants for community-based programming or exhibitions, but it's not easy to get funding for some of the core work that museums do. In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I just received my copy of Henry Jenkin's Convergence Culture which has been on my list ever since I heard him speak at the launch of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Learning and Media Initiative. ve created something that has some impact in the culture. the opportunity to program and build stuff in Second Life is pretty awesome.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

By the time my mom was at the Bay Area Discovery Museum, I was in my late teens/twenties, and I started to know the board socially, including Bob Fisher, who is now very involved with SFMOMA. DG: There is a culture of young philanthropy in NYC, perhaps in contrast with Silicon Valley. I’ve known Bob for 15 years now.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

Last month, the Christian Science Monitor published an article entitled, "Museums' new mantra: Connect with community." It took me a couple weeks (and various museum blog responses ) to realize what bugs me about this article--it treats "connecting with community" as a marketing ploy, a "mantra" rather than a mission. Which community?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

I wrote The Participatory Museum for two reasons: to explore the "how" of participatory design in museums, cultural centers, libraries, and science centers to create a version of this blog that was more "shareable" with organizational leaders and trustees By many measures, the book has been a success. Build community.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After jumping in, you swam across the short length of the hole (about 10 yards), and emerge, wet and freezing, only to get to race through temps in the teens to try to warm up in a lukewarm hot tub. Here are 3 arts and cultural organizations that have given crowd fundraising a go for compelling causes: National Air & Space Museum.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Looking closer, I saw that each seat had its own handwritten label, telling the story of the Philadelphia cultural institution from which it originated. It opens up new conversations about the work of art in our communities. They live their mission, working in questions and projects rather than exhibitions and programs.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. ” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

If your institution says it is bold and fearless, how do your programs support that? If you say, “we need a blog,” others in your organization won’t know how to contextualize that within the programs and mission of the institution. Third, you need to align your idea with institutional culture.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

For those who haven't attended, the Museums and the Web conference brings an international audience from art, history, cultural, and science museums together to talk about new ways to engage with their audiences via the web. Flickr's Commons project - Flickr is offering up its powerful community tools for museum photo collections.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

As cultural anthropology has swung away from a vision of authoritative history and toward the embrace of multiple perspectives, there is potential for those stories to come from all over the place, including visitors themselves. History Museums OPPORTUNITIES - History museums are in many ways the best-suited for visitor participation.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Last week, I had the honor and pleasure of giving a talk at an institution I''ve long admired: the Taylor Community Science Resource Center at the St. The Taylor Center is run by Diane Miller , who launched its award-winning Youth Exploring Science program in 1997. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Former museum start-up queen, Jen is taking a small organization whose goal is to promote girls’ involvement in math and science through research and programming to new, innovative, exciting places. Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. How do you simulate community on a website? They’re stealing my thing!

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 23, 2022

Since 1991, the Harold Grinspoon Foundation (HGF) has invested more than $230M into a collection of programs seeking to make Jewish life and Jewish community more connected. HGF creates opportunities for Jewish people across 40 countries to celebrate their culture, traditions, and values through engaging and educational programs.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

This week, thoughts on Chapter 12 of Elaine Gurian’s book Civilizing the Museum , "Threshold Fear: Architecture program planning." Cultural icons serve many important purposes, but these, I have reluctantly begun to realize, may be quite different from, and perhaps mutually exclusive with, museums focused on community well-being.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Last week, I had the honor and pleasure of giving a talk at an institution I've long admired: the Taylor Community Science Resource Center at the St. The Taylor Center is run by Diane Miller , who launched its award-winning Youth Exploring Science program in 1997. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2013

We are hiring for a School Programs Coordinator to wrangle the 3,500+ students and their teachers who come to the museum every year for a tour and hands-on experience in our art and history exhibitions. What kinds of programs should we consider providing for these groups? Not all learning happens in school.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 7, 2011

ASU School of Community Resources & Development. These programs are often developed to meet the needs of the youth they serve, and demographic shifts throughout the US suggest most programs will serve Latino youth, if they are not already doing so. Ariel Rodríguez, Ph.D. Assistant Professor. Welcome to Research Friday !

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Based on nominations that came in from the community, we had the challenging task of narrowing it down to just three winners. The Leading Change Award recognizes an outstanding individual whose leadership has made a significant contribution to positively change their organization, their community, and the sector.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

Like a lot of organizations, my museum struggles with two conflicting goals: The museum should be for everyone in our community. We''re more successful when we target particular communities or audiences and design experiences for them. This has led to a surprising outcome: we are now de-targeting many programs. Why fight it?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2011

Let's say you spend a year working with a group of teens to co-create an exhibition, or you invite members and local artists to help redesign the lobby. Community processes are both exciting and time-consuming. Community processes are both exciting and time-consuming. In some ways, this is a good thing.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

My house that I loved so much that I’m sure that I overpaid and was a fundraiser at Big Brothers Big Sisters at that time and really had to learn to navigate some really choppy waters around what it meant to help folks understand investing in their community in trying times, investing in young people, investing in our staff. Absolutely.

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