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Celebrate, Educate, and Fundraise: Planning Winning AAPI Heritage Month Events

The Modern Nonprofit

The events can also effectively raise funds through ticket sales, sponsorships, and donations for organizations that provide services and advocacy to advance AAPIs. Others may prefer moderated discussions or interviews. Or present grants and donations to causes they support. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators.

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Developing a Participatory, Provocative History Project at a Small Museum in Minnesota: Interview with Mary Warner

Museum 2.0

Earlier this year, I was fascinated to read the account of a participatory project at the Morrison County Historical Society in Minnesota, in which community members were invited to write essays about “what’s it like” to have various life experiences in the County. We had a board member who kept asking us to do oral histories.

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12 Ways We Made our Santa Cruz Collects Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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The Secret To Social Media Engagement: Kiss A Squirrel!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. You don’t have to do a comprehensive survey, you can use some participatory research techniques like interviewing or fly on the wall observation. Or just keep your ears open.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

So we tend to have three legs of support: municipal, grants/donations, and fee for service (usually with the school district). For example, the Exploratorium is an extraordinarily participatory museum, but it''s not nearly as participatory as a Community Science Workshop. In fact, we have almost no individual donors.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

On July 9, 2009 I interviewed David about Spot.us Below is an edited transcript of the interview which you also can listen to online , or subscribe to via iTunes. The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. Are there ways they can get involved beyond just donating?

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Social Media, Networks, and Data in Patient Healthcare Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some are describing this shift in perspective as “participatory medicine” or “person-centric care.” A campaign that raised awareness and donations for ALS to epic proportions. ” to “Can I donate if I don’t dump water on my head.” This “Dr.