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Making Women’s History More Visible

Forum One

This Women’s History Month, we celebrate the work that the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum does each and every day to bring women’s stories alive and into focus. Forum One worked with the Museum to create the 10-minute digital experience, which will be available this Friday on the Museum’s website. January 30, 2024).

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[Webinar] Major Gifts: Asking in the Age of Zoom

CauseVox

The pandemic brought both donors and development professionals to a new place, demonstrating that major gift work can, indeed, take place online. But, even before the virtual shift, this approach was creating significant barriers for smaller nonprofits as well as wear-and-tear on traveling major gift officers.

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The Sit-Ins: A Story of Creative and Strategic Struggle

DipJar

The story of that day, the movement it spawned, and its lasting impact are told at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum. The museum opened on February 1, 2010, the 50th anniversary of the sit-in that marked a watershed moment in the movement for justice. Photograph Credit :Mark Herboth, ArchDaily. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Audience Engagement Conversation at Western Museums Association

Museum 2.0

The Western Museum Association was kind enough to invite me to speak on a panel about engagement at their annual meeting in Boise. Phillip’s early remark about museums was an invocation for everyone. As an outsider, he immediately saw that museums were operating “under a business model that doesn’t work.” We need to change.

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Navigating the Conundrum of Auxiliaries

VQ Strategies

Designed to assist and support an organization (and most commonly hospitals, museums, libraries, and arts organizations), these groups historically focus on raising funds, sometimes manage the volunteer corps, and nearly always maintain their own governance system.

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Non-Profit Storytelling: What If There Is No Conflict?

The Storytelling Non-profit

Conflict demonstrates a clear problem that donors can solve by making a donation. Impact stories work well for fundraising because they demonstrate a need that donors can meet through donating. But what about arts organizations or museums? When writing a story to raise money, an essential part of the story is a conflict.

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The Next Generation of Major Donors to Museums: Interview with David Gelles

Museum 2.0

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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