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Why Your Giving Day is Your Secret Weapon

M+R

Launching a Giving Day at a cultural institution is particularly special because you can invite your community inside the building to participate in your philanthropic mission. Pi Day, celebrating math and science, is the Museum’s signature day of giving. When we started working with the Museum, Pi Day was in its fifth year.

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The Benefits of Having Digitally Savvy Board – for Museums & Nonprofits Too!

Connection Cafe

In the words of Stephanie Woerner, research scientist at MIT Sloan’s CISR, “Directors on digitally savvy boards have an understanding, tested by experience, of how digital technologies impact the way that companies will succeed in the next decade.”. But the initial costs should not be a deterrent.

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Design Series: Understanding Audience Needs

Forum One

And that strategic teamwork translates to efficiency on the other end, building products that audiences want to engage with because they’ve been thoroughly tested and designed. This fosters a culture of open communication and empathy within the team. We tested that prototype, iterated on it, and tested it again.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. We are trying to change the visitors’ experience at the museum as well as ownership of what is in the museum, break down the walls between the public and the museum.

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Embedding Purpose-Driven Communications into Email Marketing

sgEngage

Why does your museum open its doors each day? Every arts and culture organization has a brand and that brand has a purpose. For arts and culture organizations, brand purpose is often about facilitating learning and engaging visitors in unforgettable experiences that provide educational and social value. Where are they located?

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Top #GivingTuesday Takeaways for Arts & Cultural Organizations

Connection Cafe

While we’re still calculating how much of that total cultural organizations raised, here are some campaigns that stood out: . Museums or performing arts centers can do the same but ask their followers to name new statues or caption new pieces of art. Donation matches are time-tested. billion. .

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Building a Culture of Experimentation

Museum 2.0

Last week, I sat down on a toilet in our museum and found myself looking at an interactive station intended to test a “Legends of the Stall” sign concept for the restrooms. Some of my happiest moments as a director come when I encounter awesome things in our museum that I had absolutely nothing to do with. Sorry for the delay.

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