The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Well-planned events enable nonprofits, community groups, businesses and government agencies to showcase AAPI arts, food, performances, and more. Effective outreach strategies should focus on connecting with local AAPI groups, leaders, and community centers. Reach out to Asian American student groups on college campuses as well.

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Celebrate Education Fundraising Culture 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. re not creating a billboard, but rather starting a conversation -- you have to be willing to respond." Go read it. vlogging, and podcasting). .

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. Ideally, you’d run this workshop with your team, organization, community group, etc.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

By creating opportunities for engagement, the nonprofit sector is responsible for building cohesion and social capital. Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. posted by Shayla Hubbard Project Coordinator, University of Arizona College of Medicine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

She posted a pointer on the NTEN Nonprofit Flickr Affinity Group list today. Britt Bravo who is also the Flickr Affinity Group wrote about Oxfam America Campaign here. It describes various sub-groups of consumer co-created content. Paid media: Old advertising model She points out why she likes the campaign: 1 ???

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Meme Participatory Campaign Flickr 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In addition to the countless lunches, coffees, roundtables, focus groups and other opportunities for feedback and discussion I engaged in I also dug into the evidence on the impacts of capacity building on organizations. When social change issues are complex, we can sometimes default to creating a set of tools to make sense of them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

Group Polling Techniques and Tools. Creating a Network Map. Small Group – Making Posters. Small Group – Making Posters. Full Group Interactive Exercises. Participatory Facilitation Techniques. Train the Trainers Model. I cebreakers and Closers. Icebreakers Tips and Tricks. Design Labs.

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Training Train San Jose Instructional Design 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

As trainers, Andrea and I both know the value of “modeling the model,” so we wanted to use and model best practices for designing effective meetings on their preferred platforms. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. Next, as a group we do a theme analysis. Design must comes first.

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Facilitation Virtual Arts Participatory 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The supervisors toured the exhibition with some of the 100+ local partners who helped create it. This argument became one of the foundations of The Participatory Museum. Even a smash hit program is hard to scale up in this model. At the MAH, we've tried wherever possible to break out of unidirectional program models.

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Platform Impact Childhood Museum 31

Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). In 2008, when this group was assembled, they had political backing, financial support, and an energetic approach to their work. The early participatory projects are terrific. The media strategy is impressive.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. There were curators co-creating with prostitutes. Designers creating space for nationwide reconciliation and transformation. Even the conference itself was a model of social bridging. I first sensed the difference at the front door.

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Museum America South America Participatory 40

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit. The idea is that you specify your values, relationships, and assets, and then match those up with potentially fruitful legal structures, financing models, and growth potential.

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Structure Model Social Profit 31

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. This isn't just a rhetorical question.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. It is a useful technique for creating a more responsive, flexible organizational culture as well as coming up with more innovative ideas for programs and grants that are a good fit. How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Every non-profit works with “systems” – internal ones relating to how work gets done, issue systems relating to the topic that the NGO is working to address, and mental model systems about strategy. The mental model mapping can uncover conflict, make it discussable, and enhance effectiveness. Key is a participatory development process.

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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Are you creating your measurement approach/designing your evaluation, or did someone prescribe the approach you now need to implement? Do you hope to fundraise or garner more support by measuring?

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Evaluation Measure Seattle Lesson 95

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. And yet in 2004, I listened to an exhibit manager vent about the challenge of creating an early childhood development exhibition in his science center.

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Classroom Children Museum Model 22

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day. This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. It was pretty freaking amazing.

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Reflection Community Museum Participatory 43

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

And my museum, and this new model, as a space for them to do so. For example: We worked with a local psychologist to create an implicit associations-based game called "Smart, Hot, Honest or Not?" game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Museum Roles Game Participatory 51

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

I led a session with Eric Siegel and Ellen Rosenthal on museum business models and some of the issues we grapple with in managing money. And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution.

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Reflection Columbus Museum Participatory 43

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Cultural Connections is a group of museum professionals who meet up a few times a year and host excellent programs on a variety of topics. I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). Reason #258 I'm glad to live in California: Cultural Connections.

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Case Study Participatory Studies Museum 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

A national election is the ultimate participatory project. Advocacy groups of all stripes fall over themselves to give you opportunities to get involved, fight the good fight, fund the need, defeat the bill. It creates a disconnect between the "why" and the "what" that may weaken institutional progress.

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Product Build Museum Arts 51

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Last week, I attended a workshop on Creating a Vision of Greatness at ZingTrain , the training arm of Zingerman's Deli, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was even more useful to learn how participatory writing visions can be. In the Zingerman's model, visioning is for everyone at all levels of the organization. This is your dream.

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History Pennsylvania Michigan Indiana 26

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

There are communities for everything online, and chances are you can find a group that offers a good blend of related interest and current non-visitation to your museum. Create custom elements for the event(s) that put your content at center stage. Projects participatory museum. Talk to the folks at Instructables.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, Conversations create buzz, which is how ideas tip, become viral. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Thank you to everyone who came and helped co-create an exciting experimental event in a beautiful city. MuseumNext had four main sections: Interactive activities , including an opening workshop with a group of designers associated with an extremely wonderful exhibition called Doing it for the Kids featuring sustainable toy designs.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

He wanted to know how to get his kids access to tools that were affordable for them to create and edit media. And aren’t those different that the issues other groups of people face? So are the folks that are creating software with more diverse uses. That speaks volumes to me.

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Open Source Open Software Music 100

Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

Visitors tell us how much they love the MAH, saying things like, “I love that the MAH holds very welcoming, accessible, open-minded and open-hearted space where people from every walk of life can gather and (re)create community.” Or “The MAH is a living invitation of out-of-the box, beyond-perceived-walls thinking.”

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Public Museum Arts History 27

NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

At Radio Maria, Sullivan and the group used the IVR very simply, almost as a “glorified voicemail service.” The group created a special jingle and message to promote the competition. The group used similar sounding numbers for each of the networks. Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania.

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Press Ghana Tanzania Zimbabwe 49

Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A Living Library requires three kinds of people: Books, who openly and honestly represent certain stereotyped groups (i.e. A museum tour in which a docent "tours" you to a variety of volunteer artists who talk about how they create their work. Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. well, you know.

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Library Model Museum Europe 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

However, I have enormous respect for the customer-centered model when it is executed in ways that truly invite visitors in on their own terms and deliver satisfying experiences. I'd heard before about Riverside's development, which involved many community focus groups, workshops, and talkbacks.

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Museum Audience Music Arts 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. They may employ local artists to help create visitor experiences. They may build their exhibits to accommodate the interests and needs of particular families and school groups they have known and worked with for years. It creates another forgettable museum.

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Support Museum St. Louis NSF 41

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

to be a more participatory site with comment streams rampantly debating each post topic, but the reality is that my voice dominates the site. If I told you I'd created a participatory website in which 0.3% of visitors add their own content, you'd probably send me to a dictionary to look up "participatory."

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Twitter Participatory Broadcast Museum 24

Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Last month, I met an artist who was part of a group that created a renegade podcast tour for the Portland Art Museum. The participatory element employs an accessible speculative question. The participatory element is modeled well by the "official" content. They model the requested visitor contributions.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

While most non-profits are not known for technology, some are, and they are defying the traditional business models that drive technology.” Let them show you how to create an organic net-roots movement that upends traditional power structures and galvanizes your community.". But it wasn't here to enterain, no.

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Conference Government Social Media Influence 38

Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. The MP3 experiment is a model for how a typically isolating experience—listening to headphones in public—can become the basis for a powerful interpersonal experience with strangers.

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Instruction Instructional Nicaragua Experiment 21

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement. There have been several studies that show that creating a personal record of an experience and reviewing it later increases learning and retention of content. And it's not just about recall.

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