Connection Cafe

AUGUST 22, 2017

So as we look to engage with our audiences, digital strategies are essential , even if our end goal is an in-person interaction—visiting our museum or attending a performance—and not necessarily an online donation. The five levels of the vision matrix are: Conservative – Traditional, restricted, or protected approach.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Crisis Group :: @ CrisisGroup. National Museum of American History :: @ AMHistoryMuseum. National Parks Conservation Association :: @ NPCA. Ocean Conservancy :: @ OurOcean. Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans :: @ CIAV. Coalition to Stop Gun Violence :: @ CSGV. DoSomething.org :: @ DoSomething.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Their arts and culture funding goes towards artists, curators, conservators, scholars, and organizations to ensure equitable access to excellent arts and cultural experiences. The Shubert Foundation.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Every day for the past two months, a man has entered the largest gallery in my museum. The man is artist Rocky Lewycky , whose work is part of a group show of visual artists who have won a prestigious regional fellowship. It also complicates the question of what is acceptable in a museum. He smashes a sculpture of an animal.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. But effort and efficacy are not the same.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

Last week''s New York Times special section on museums featured a lead article by David Gelles on Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons. In the article, David discussed ways that several large art museums are working to attract major donors and board members in their 30s and 40s. David describes himself as a "museum brat."

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This group is a go-to for many fundraisers looking to learn and improve their skills. Alexander Haas is an Atlanta-based fundraising consulting firm that serves clients nationwide, including those in higher education, museums, schools, performing arts, human services, healthcare, and religious organizations. Aspire Research Group.

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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. Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. Yes, some people (especially vocal museum staff!) But what about visitors?

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

This group is a go-to for many fundraisers looking to learn and improve their skills. Alexander Haas is an Atlanta-based fundraising consulting firm that serves clients nationwide, including those in higher education, museums, schools, performing arts, human services, healthcare, and religious organizations. Aspire Research Group.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The 2013 Communities of Impact (CoI) pilot program consists of two groups, both focusing on the ways that nonprofits measure, learn from, and share their data. We’ll help the participants document, evaluate, and share their work, whatever shape it takes, and can’t wait to see what these groups uncover and accomplish together in one year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2016

The first nonprofit spotted on my #HagueDayTrip is the Mauritshuis – a #museum that holds a world-famous collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings from the fifteenth to eighteenth century. And though they were all quite busy running around working on behalf of animals worldwide, they took a moment for a group photo. .

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

International aid groups also have focused more attention on post-disaster recovery and rebuilding, and turned increasingly to social media to help educate donors about disaster needs, he said. With serious disasters abroad in 2013 eclipsing those in the U.S., Faith-based – Focus on fundamentals. Arts and culture – Giving for impact.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The conventional wisdom on museum memberships is that they are "one size fits many" programs whose primary benefits are free entrance to the museum and insider access to exhibition openings. But what about all the other people who love your museum? Want to know how the Brooklyn Museum is answering this question?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2007

I read recently about an awesome project at the San Jose Museum of Art in 2001, Collecting Our Thoughts, in which visitors were invited to write the labels for an art exhibition (more another time). But it's a lot of fun, and it could be a great way to construct a personalized takeaway from a museum experience. Pick a plural noun.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Environmental Impact.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Environmental Impact.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

No museum puts up a label that says: “Our last curator thought this painting was lousy and kept it in storage. Before the MAH exhibition, those historic surfboards rested deep in the collection storage of the Bishop Museum in Hawaii. We paid a small fortune to have them conserved and shipped here for exhibition.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

I spent Saturday in beautiful Monterey, ocean pounding outside the window of a conference room, where about 40 museum folks were pondering a question more elusive than the origin of the waves: can museums change the world? The Congo Gorilla Forest , is a special exhibition produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. It's great that NTEN let's anyone who is passionate about a topic set up an affinity group. A List of Examples.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Health and wellness advocacy groups often use mobile fundraising as a way to raise awareness as well as money. Environmental conservation and preservation societies, on the whole, tend to use mobile fundraising to raise money and support for important legislation. Health and wellness. Environmental awareness.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 9, 2008

In May 2008, the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported that six groups (Fetzer Institute, Ford Foundation, Hidden Leaf Foundation, Jewish Funds for Justice, W.K. The Interfaith Power and Light campaign is, "mobilizing a national religious response to global warming while promoting renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

About three months ago Beth Kanter wrote about the Crowdsourcing of Vision at the Smithsonian Museum. Collective intelligence refers to the outcomes generated by pooling knowledge from diverse groups, using it to research and debate and then refining the resulting understanding into useful and actionable information.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

Before you dive into the nitty-gritty of auction planning, you need to gather a dedicated group of team members. If you find yourself needing to budget more conservatively, using volunteers instead of staff or receiving auction items as donations is a good idea. Essential Steps to Planning a Fundraising Silent Auction.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

It may be easy for big groups, with photogenic interests -- like the National Wildlife Federation's Wildlife Habitat program or The Nature Conservancy's nature picture contest -- to use something like Flickr, but you're too small? Or the Women's Museum. Balderdash! Take a look at what the Learning Community is doing.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. Braided River is a Seattle-based publishing organization that is committed to inspiring support for critical conservation efforts.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

Elizabeth Merritt is the director of the Center for the Future of Museums , a new project of the American Association of Museums (AAM). When I was given the opportunity to found the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM) I had been working for nearly 10 years with Museum Assessment and Accreditation at AAM.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2007

What does your museum have to say about it? What do visitors expect of museums, and what do museums expect of themselves, when it comes to timeliness? This is partially driven by museums, which want to be seen as "forums" for discourse, but also by the expectations of a media-saturated public. Pluto just got demoted.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

This week, we're looking at the first section, Talking Back and Talking Together , which features comment boards, talk-back walls, and discussion forums at a variety of museums. At the Boston Museum of Science's video kiosk on wind power, 3/4 of people were most interested in making their own video (as opposed to watching others).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. what is the value of the exhibition experience to non-participants, that is, regular museum visitors?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Part-website, part-smartphone app, this tool enables free group texting between small groups of people. You can either manage your group online or on your mobile phone. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Many of you, especially those in greater Chicago, may be familiar with the Data Analysts for Social Good group that Andrew Means founded in May 2012. To learn more and stay in the loop with Data Analysts for Social Good, you can join the LinkedIn group and subscribe to the listserv. right here.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2014

Best Use of Interactive Technology – The Tenement Museum – The Tenement Museum needed a system that could collect visitor information for future follow up while making the booking process easy and seamless, both online and onsite. Read the case study. Read the case study. Read the case study.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Are you passionate about conservation and environmental causes? Nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy , Union of Concerned Scientists , American Association of University Women , and NRDC do, too. Groups like the Lady Parts Justice , Ms. askformore. Rachel Carson. Fund their work! Sheroes in the Arts. Lorraine Hansberry.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Best Use of Interactive Technology – The Tenement Museum – The Tenement Museum needed a system that could collect visitor information for future follow up while making the booking process easy and seamless, both online and onsite. Read the case study. Read the case study. Read the case study.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

The most effective photos to add to your online donation form will generally feature an individual person or a small group people (three to four people, tops!). Environmental conservancies can show people enjoying the outdoors. Art museums can show a small family enjoying an exhibit. But how do you know which photo will work?

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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. The exhibition or program is of high quality, and from the visitor perspective, it may look like museum as usual. Community processes are both exciting and time-consuming.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

By this time, there was an official California Condor Recovery Program that included many groups: government agencies managing the program under the Endangered Species Act , environmental organizations, Native American groups, scientists, and zoos. The number of birds increased quickly. A puppet feeds a condor chick. This is success.

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