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On White Privilege and Museums

Museum 2.0

I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums. The vast majority of American museums are institutions of white privilege. The popular reference point for what a museum is--a temple for contemplation--is based on a Euro-centric set of myths and implies a white set of behaviors.

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How can nonprofits convince funders to invest in capacity building?

ASU Lodestar Center

For example, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation offers grants for organizational effectiveness. Change the language. Emily’s educational background in the sciences coupled with her love of museums led her to work in informal science education and outreach in the nonprofit sector.

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+16 Established Fundraising Consultants

Whole Whale

Alexander Haas is an Atlanta-based fundraising consulting firm that serves clients nationwide, including those in higher education, museums, schools, performing arts, human services, healthcare, and religious organizations. Byrne Pelofsky has served clients in various sectors for services from grant writing to campaign management.

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Hemingway: A Simple Online Tool for Better Short-Form Writing

Museum 2.0

Grant proposals. For many arts/museum professionals, writing text in 100-word chunks is a daily activity. We pack sentences with high-falutin vocabulary, pepper them with clauses, and wrap them up in insider language. We pack sentences with high-falutin vocabulary, pepper them with clauses, and wrap them up in insider language.

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Great Participatory Processes are Open, Discoverable, and Unequal

Museum 2.0

Grant application feedback. You spend hours agonizing over the language for a grant application. Grant processes are inherently unequal --the funder is trying to find the best work to support. The whole process of grant applications would be improved if providing panel comments was a matter of course.

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The Public Argument About Arts Support as Seen through the Lens of the Detroit Institute of Arts

Museum 2.0

Residents in the three counties that pay the millage will receive special benefits : free admission to the museum and expanded educational programming. But the arguments trotted out represent how far we have to go in articulating the public value of arts institutions (and helping our supporters speak the same language). Rebuttal: none.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

But if you are using their language or really innovative elements, you should credit them. For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Same for any grants, regrants, mini-grants, or loans you offer. Get creative. Hear me out.

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