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Straddling the Comfort Zone

Museum 2.0

I finished reading the Museums and Social Issues journal on Civic Discourse, and it's brought up a groundswell of internal debate for me about museums and comfort. Some places, like the St. Louis City Museum, are able to offer a high level of comfort with a low level of safety. Supportive facilitators?)

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. International Fundraising Conference. International Fundraising Conference. USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences / San Diego, CA / Less than $200. Donor Relations. Mar 20 - 22.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

Museum 2.0

Last week, I had the honor and pleasure of giving a talk at an institution I''ve long admired: the Taylor Community Science Resource Center at the St. Louis Science Center. In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs. What does it take to make that happen?

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

Museum 2.0

This summer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Louis count it. Louis Science Center''s mission is to "ignite and sustain lifelong science and technology learning."

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What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

Museum 2.0

Last week, I had the honor and pleasure of giving a talk at an institution I've long admired: the Taylor Community Science Resource Center at the St. Louis Science Center. In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs. The Taylor Center is a testbed for the St.

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[VIDEO] First Steps to Nonprofit Strategic Planning, Now!

Bloomerang

But no matter what, even if you’re going to start devoting staff time to an internal planning process, it will demand some amount of financial investment. It may be that, for some organizations, a really large strategic planning process would include hiring an outside facilitator, doing a. So you want to look at that. .

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