Global Giving

APRIL 4, 2019

When gathering data, it is important to first reflect on what goal you want to achieve and what information you need to know in order to find out if you’re doing it right. Subscribe to get the best content from the Learn Library once a month. Q: How can data help nonprofits raise more money? Want more tips like this?

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2010

Mitchell Kapor echoed many of O'Reilly's points and discussed open government in the context of the history of open source. The diversity of the team should reflect the diversity of the city," he said. Suddenly, many opportunities open for new and better government services without the usual price tag.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Here are a few tips to keep in mind when doing so: Use background scenery and visuals that are reflective of your organization. Use language and conversations that are reflective of what learners will encounter. This isn’t the time to take a deep-dive into your nonprofit’s history. Thank you for calling my telephone.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

We selected a First Wave that reflects diversity of geography, size, and sector, so we can see who this works best for and why. The First Wave includes 6 museums, 5 performing arts organizations, 3 public libraries, 3 parks, and 3 community centers. Half are led by people of color or indigenous people.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2009

In April, TechSoup Global's GreenTech Initiative will be kicking off a TeleGreening Your Workplace campaign to help nonprofits and libraries discover ways to save money, reduce travel, and still be effective in your work. I felt the creation of a basic avatar was pretty easy and enjoyable since I got to reflect on who I wanted to be.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

As someone texted me recently, Art History grad school didn't teach us anything about working with others in museums. A few suggestions were about outside training to improve your skills. Everyone can learn from others. Training, reading, and practicing are three key elements in becoming a better leader. We all need help to do this better.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

In reflecting on the sample, I’ve made some broad reflections on museum workers and visitors. Our visitors often see museums as a genre, not unlike hospitals or libraries. The American Museum of Natural History had two wonderful moments happening this summer. People were transfixed by the space.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 18, 2018

We're launching it with partners at community-based libraries, parks, museums, and cultural centers around the world. As our staff and board became reflective OF our community, more people felt represented. We're building tools, trainings, and hopefully, a movement for a more inclusive world. Our contexts are different.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

She is currently an Associate Professor of History and American Studies at William & Mary where she researches, teaches, and writes about early America. Perhaps the reluctance of some researchers to collaborate is not simply based on a desire to defend their turf, but also a reflection of the infancy of current collaboration technologies.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2015

The classics don''t lose their power when they share library shelf space with beach reads. We wanted to reflect this diversity of identities by inviting all kinds of artists and artworks into the gallery. design exhibition institutional change Museum of Art and History' It''s a weak symbol of your expertise. Expertise is worthy.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This is our reflective moment, Devyn. This is well documented, and even the history of people describing themselves as white goes back to the slave trade. Devyn Taylor: It’s, well actually today, it’s rainy. It was beautiful all week, and then I had relatives come to visit, and then it rains. Of course, right?

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

For example, imagine you’re creating a course in which learners need to understand the history of developing a process they’re expected to use. You can present the key points in the history of developing the process out of order, and ask the learner to sequence them in the correct order. Detail a process.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (SLHC) is a small museum located in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. How can a local history museum connect with third places in the community?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations. New to the art form and the museum, we gave them a gift certificate to reflect over milkshakes at a local burger joint after the event. Can't wait to hear what you think.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

As I reflect on what Literacy Day means, I can’t help thinking about the origins of my interest in Room to Read as an organization, and one particularly sticky literacy-for-development related issue that came up during that season of my life. I remember a Spanish-language version of Eva Luna, and a biography of Lance Armstrong.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content. event, the Computer History Museum had 15 reviews on Yelp!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. In Denmark and Amsterdam, I experienced radical dialogue programs like Human Library , but also a strict formalism as to what happens in galleries. and then what?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2008

I visited a friend last weekend who works at a coffee shop in downtown Santa Cruz, right next to the Museum of Art and History. Why doesn’t the whole Museum of Art and History look and feel like the coffee shop? There was funky music. There were lovely couches. There were people working and eating and chatting and reading.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Our Story I came to the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago. As one visitor recently commented, "the MAH has become 'our' museum, a reflection of us and a place where we can appreciate art, share it with each other, learn and make new connections." At the time, we were fighting for survival. We had to make a change.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In Denmark and Amsterdam, I experienced radical dialogue programs like Human Library , but also a strict formalism as to what happens in galleries. I'd love to hear more peoples' reflections on this. If your institution cares about delivering on mission, measure indicators that reflect your core values. and then what?

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. There are several good resources on evaluating participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. The best approach is to learn blogging is to create a personal professional development blog - a blog you use to write reflections and learnings about your subject area or personal learning goals. Professional development - reflect and learn about your work.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

at the Brooklyn Museum , Tech Virtual at The Tech , and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. (By Small, quirky projects like the public art geocaching exhibition in Bellevue, WA , and inspiring surprises like the Living Library program and book-drop based tagging at the Hague. In other words, there's a lot going on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. Young people have access to computers in schools and libraries, but there is a difference in the quality of experience. Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. local time).

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Personalization Tools: These features allow you to give users an experience that’s customized to their location, time of visit, or history with your website. Standard Build: $600 set-up fee In the Standard package, you pick a template from our library and then Neon Websites’ designers creates 6 of your website’s most important pages.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. Institutions like the Library of Congress and the Powerhouse Museum are getting thousands of quality tags and comments on previously hidden away images.

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sgEngage

MAY 17, 2021

CASE has contributed to the dialog through a number of resources available to our members from our recent Currents cover story, “ Reckoning with the Past ,” to our extensive library collections of subject guides and samples related to renaming, how to talk about race, and other critical topics. The full picture is what is most helpful.

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Education Conversation Giving University 56

The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

is the growing library of writing models(skills) specific to nonprofits and fundraising. Mission Statement Craft a mission statement for your organization that reflects your vision and work. As you know, YVCC and TSM have a long history together, but we’d like to explore a more formal partnership. The Fundwriter.ai

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Museums are quality learning spaces, but so are libraries. Museum house things, but so do libraries. For many people museums are purveyors of and intercessors with history. Shaelyn Amaio, a museum worker, agreed, as do I. To non-museum goers, the line between museum and not-museum is blurry. can find nourishment.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So fundamentally, I think for major donor conversations what you want to be doing is asking questions, then you reflect back what they’ve said. So you’re reflecting back what they said, and then you essentially deflect it. . You reflect what they said, so you understand and people feel heard.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And there’s been also a lot of questions about that and applications about racial equity, and then the makeup of your staff and reflective of the people that you serve. there’s libraries and other nonprofit organizations where you can actually access the professional level of FDO. But I don’t know about that online.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

It sort of depends on your budget and your needs and if you’ve got access maybe through a library or some sort of collaborative organization, a membership to Foundation Directory Online. . Many grants also have background questions like history of your organization, or mission and vision. . You certainly can.

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