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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

Museum 2.0

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. I''ve never worked in such a supportive, energized, active environment. In any work environments, there are things that we fix right away, and then there are other things that are just a bit too tricky or unpleasant.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. I started the keynote by reading a poem by Deanna Zandt, a friend and the author of Share This!

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Four Tips to Help Nonprofit Marketing Departments Create a Culture of Philanthropy

Connection Cafe

It also creates a problem internally where turf wars and a noncollaborative environment lead to frustration, burnout, and staff turnover. Rituals are repeated behaviors that foster a positive work environment and tell a story about your organization’s culture of philanthropy. Business guru Peter F.

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’ve wrote about the importance of building resilience in networks given the complex and connected environment we live in today. Hurricane Sandy caused over 100 deaths in 10 states and left more people in the dark than any other storm in United States history. It’s not a nightmare,” I said, “It’s for real.”.

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Update: Nonprofits - Power and Influence in our lives

Connection Cafe

Sunday, I decided not to add them to the total – I did not count churches, but did count faith-based organizations, like the Mobile Loaves and Fishes truck feeding the homeless near a downtown park. I counted 8 different museums represented in a 45 minute viewing of one show on The History Channel.

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

Have Fun - Do Good

Almost never do they receive healthcare benefits or vacation time and oftentimes, have to work in incredibly oppressive environments. Steve Williams: I think for me one of the things that motivates me is the idea that the world can be a better place. Britt Bravo: Have you always done this kind of work?

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. History remembers Queen Anna Nzinga as one of the great female rulers of Africa.

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