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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

In our data culture , we suggest your nonprofit takes the time to put one together as a means of showing your organization’s transparency — and bragging about your success in the past year. The nonprofit lets the impact stand on its own on certain pages – no pictures, very little language, and lots of white space. Power Poetry.

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Is Your Nonprofit Too Old To Barf Rainbows on Snapchat?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, why another social network, especially one where the focus is to create content, not consume and the culture of it is rather secretive? If you are targeting Gen Z and Millennials and you have someone on staff who speaks emoji as a first language, set up a small pilot and test on SnapChat using Laura’s steps.

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Let's Stop Talking about What People Need

Museum 2.0

How many times have you heard this phrase in the context of cultural institutions? It''s presumptuous to suggest that we know what people "need" in a cultural context. Some need to conduct programs in multiple languages. It''s depressing to imply that culture is not what people "want." For me, the answer is too many.

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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

Museum 2.0

When I look back at some recent projects that I''m most excited about (like this teen program ), I realize that I had very little to do with their conception or execution. We work hard to name and build our culture in many ways. We''re seen as a trusted and desirable partner to diverse cultural practitioners in our community.

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

Museum 2.0

Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. Emily started by honing in on local teens' assets: creativity, activist energy, desire to make a difference, desire to be heard, free time in the afternoon. We start with the community and build to projects.

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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. Third, you need to align your idea with institutional culture. If your institution says it is bold and fearless, how do your programs support that?

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

By slowing down and making a piece of art for someone, we provide a personal connection to the issues and to individuals and create opportunities to see our commonalities despite geographic or cultural borders. I feel that art is able to translate beyond language, and communicate a much larger vision of personal connection.