article thumbnail

Nonprofit Strategic Planning: Ultimate Guide + 7 Examples

Bloomerang

Each team member has inherent strengths, so this model is designed to help your nonprofit make the most of those strengths. Then, you designate other team members to notify impacted donors as quickly as possible about the breach. This model never looks the same for two organizations.

Examples 117
article thumbnail

Take a Side Trip to the Denver Art Museum

Museum 2.0

This week, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened a new temporary exhibition called The Psychedelic Experience , featuring rock posters from San Francisco in the heyday of Bill Graham and electric kool-aid. It’s a thrilling challenge to the traditional form of art museum exhibit design, and better yet, visitors like it.

Denver 21
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Designing Talkback Platforms for Different Dialogic Goals

Museum 2.0

Answers will differ depending on who's asking, but they are also influenced by the designed environment in which questions are asked. The outcome of our conversations is dependent on the diversity of designed environments in which they occur. "Where were you last night?" If someone asked you that question, how would you answer?

Design 31
article thumbnail

Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

In the past, I've highlighted a few--like 826 Valencia and the Denver Community Museum --that I think have already influenced the way many traditional cultural organization do business. But it is also a symbol of a movement for third places that combine commerce, design and community. Elsewhere Collaborative (Greensboro, NC).

Culture 49
article thumbnail

AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

Museum 2.0

I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. If participatory exhibit design is going to progress as a design methodology, it has to produce outputs that are demonstrably equivalent to or better than exhibits created by traditional methods.

Slides 20
article thumbnail

Eight Other Ways to "Connect with Community"

Museum 2.0

We're always happy for more bodies in the door, but if supporting teens means alienating seniors, there's a problem. But it skips some of the fundamental design and operational choices that separate community centers from the rest of the civic and cultural landscape. The "community" doesn't have to leave their block to get there.

article thumbnail

Framework vs. Sensibility: Separating Format from Voice

Museum 2.0

Teen docents are more serious than adults because they want to be treated like professionals. The Exploratorium and MCA Denver are both masters of pairing fairly standard museum frameworks for audience engagement with an energized, funky sensibility. But it's far more typical to focus on just one. Adam is a master of sensibility.

Voice 42