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Self Care in the Museum Workplace

Connection Cafe

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. We’d love to share. I am a bisexual cis woman.

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Warning: Museum Graduate Programs Spawn Legions of Zombies!

Museum 2.0

and with it flocks of museum studies / education / exhibit planning graduate interns. I’m always curious when I meet these folks, who are about my age, choosing a different entry path into the museum world. The value proposition of museum grad programs is cloudy in my mind. Summer's coming to D.C., You were a carpenter.

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Does the Most Powerful Work Live Onstage or Behind the Scenes?

Museum 2.0

The partners we work with--to catalyze projects within and beyond our walls--are just as important as our visitors to fulfilling our mission. Relative to other museums, I think we spend less time producing an "onstage" experience and more time collaborating with community organizations behind the scenes to empower them to produce.

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Kickstarter: Funding Creativity in a New (Old) Way

Museum 2.0

Kickstarter is a website for creative folks to find funding for their dream projects. Currently, the site supports US-based projects only. A Kickstarter project has three parts: Project description. This is typically a video plus text, although some projects just use a simple image instead of a video. Funding goal.

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Game Friday: Museum Mad Libs!

Museum 2.0

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). Which made my mind go to a far more irreverent destination: Mad Libs. They're owned by the museum. Pick a plural noun.

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Mobile Fundraising: A Complete Overview — Pt. 2 of 3

NonProfit Hub

Fund specific projects. Many nonprofits choose to use mobile fundraising to fund specific projects. Mobile makes it easy to mobilize donors at a moment’s notice, and it’s also much easier to inspire people to give on their mobile devices when there’s a specific goal in mind. #5. Your donors can pledge in an instant! #4.

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Spirituality, Religion and Activism: What's the Connection?

Have Fun - Do Good

Another recipient, the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, published a resource manual for social justice activists, The Activist's Ally: Contemplative Tools for Social Change. You can download a copy of the article on the Regeneration Project site.