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

The Modern Nonprofit

It can pay tribute to heritage while also emphasizing the universal human ideals of justice, family, culture, or community. Incorporate interactive elements that allow attendees to directly participate. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators. Track participation data to inform future outreach efforts.

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Adventures in Participatory Audience Engagement at the Henry Art Gallery

Museum 2.0

This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program. In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery.

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Making Museum Tours Participatory: A Model from the Wing Luke Asian Museum

Museum 2.0

The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. Again and again, she told personal stories of her interactions with the historic and monumental people and events she described. What made it so special?

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Ze Frank Takes Over (My) Museum

Museum 2.0

Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. It's often intended for an audience that I only barely understand through the ways they respond and interact with the work. To dress up their vacuum cleaners.

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Participation through Gifting: Pass It On

Museum 2.0

donation to the universe, is a gift. One of my greatest interests is the "p articipatory museum," in which there is substantive, unfacilitated visitor-to-visitor interaction. When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This simple act, a $2.50

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Why Museums Should Become Sites for Civic Discourse

Museum 2.0

But all of us have experienced more informal, less well-facilitated forms of discourse. Yes, there may be sites for discourse in our lives, but they are not well-facilitated and are more often seen as undesirable disturbances--the kinds of incidences to lead us to look away from strangers on the street.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

This conference will be the platform for improving public awareness and receptivity to direct and interactive market driven philanthropy. This is your chance to meet, interact and learn from the best of the nonprofit best in fundraising, marketing and more. Fundraising / #DCNP2016 / @DMA_USA. Fundraising. 2016 IMPACT Conference.

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