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Takeaways From the Year-End Nonprofit Fundraising Survey

NonProfit Hub

nonprofits making less than $1 million per year were just as likely to increase their funds as those making $50 million or more. At the end of the report, the NSF asked charities to predict what their fundraising would look like in 2018. What did differ, however, was the giving trends by region. How has 2018 stacked up?

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The Truth about Bilingual Interpretation: Guest Post by Steve Yalowitz

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I was co-author of a recently completed research study [ PDF ] funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bilingual Exhibit Research Initiative (BERI), which strove to better understand bilingual labels from the visitor perspective. BERI was a three-year collaborative effort I worked on with Cecilia Garibay, Nan Renner and Carlos Plaza.

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

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We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. In places that succeeded, at that point, a local coalition was in place to fund the Workshop. We''re really different from traditional science centers in our funding model.

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Faith Ringgold: 30 Years of Art-Making and Activism and Video Clip on Women Artists

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to Benjamin Stokes, co-founder of Game sfor Change, the NSF has funded several game projects aimed at girls. There's a growing number of artists, like Mary Flanagan who is on the board of Games for Change, interested in games.

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

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Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? , NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? And with NSF's support, some of the very first things we did were around people developing traveling exhibits. NSF seems to be perfectly happy with that.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

Funders and potential donors tend to look for particular benchmarks of professionalism (appropriately), and few are comfortable funding the most risky or content-specific institutions. Why are museums going in the other direction, trying to become more consistent rather than celebrating their idiosyncrasies? But that's only part of the story.

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Game Friday: Tagging For Fun

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These games were developed by Carnegie Mellon with funding from the NSF, with the goal of harnessing collective intelligence (and interest in playing games) to tag all of the images on the internet. The ESP Game , and its related game, Phetch , are two games that create a framework to make tagging fun. Why would they want to do that?

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