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8 Museum Apps Doing Good

Care2

Historic St. Louis apps by Missouri History Museum. iOS/Android: This app truly takes history outside the walls of the museum by mapping several hundred historic photos across St. Choose a photo from the map or gallery to learn about the architecture, the context behind the image, and related anecdotes from St.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On The Environment And Conservation Efforts

Kindful

If, however, through your research, you can establish a clear connection between your programs and their funding history and priorities, it’s still worth reaching out to that funder and introducing your organization. The Crawford Taylor Foundation is committed to enabling and enhancing programs that create legacies within their St.

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Tales of faux donors scamming charities

Robert Weiner

The first letters came with small gifts memorializing certain people in history not known for being very nice, but other than that, they were not altogether bizarre (other than the checks… with no address, and envelopes, with no address, and I don’t think they ever had a post mark, come to think of it). I think you get the picture.

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Four Easy Ways to Land Corporate Donations

Connection Cafe

Research the Company’s History. Research a company’s background, key achievements, future plans, goals and recent history. Looking at a company’s donation history can help you understand whether your organization is a good match in terms of monetary donations and employee participation levels. Habitat for Humanity St.

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On White Privilege and Museums

Museum 2.0

They tell histories of white male conquest. I recall one particularly ugly incident in St. Louis in which museum marketers required staff members to delink a signature youth program's web presence from the main site because the kids involved were "too black" for the brand image of the institution.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

It was started in 2003 and is run by Mark Allen and a collective of artists, many of whom have also been applying their talents by performing "interventions" at formal art institutions including LACMA, the Hammer Museum, and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. In other words, they're not pretentious.

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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. Summertime concerts at the history museum? So perhaps the St. There''s quite a range.