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The Ultimate Guide to Volunteer Recruitment: 15+ Strategies

Qgiv

They walk dogs at your animal shelter, ask for donations on your behalf, and spend their Saturday afternoons tutoring students. For example, you’ll need far fewer volunteers at a small lecture event than you will at a community-wide dance-a-thon. Students make great volunteers! Use current volunteers as a resource.

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Using Social Bridging to Be "For Everyone" in a New Way

Museum 2.0

We''ve seen surprising and powerful results--visitors from different backgrounds getting to know each other, homeless people and museum volunteers working together, artists from different worlds building new collaborative projects. This isn''t just a philosophical shift--it''s also being driven by visitors'' behavior.

Museum 55
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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

Museum 2.0

Experimental trails on humans Historical antecedents to modern day “hot button” topics Lecture series Population growth (down arrow) What technology is developed reflects the political structure of a society and its values An exhibit of a plastinated cow or pig as part of a larger Children’s museum exhibition on agriculture.

Museum 20