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How to Write Fundraising Emails That Get Results

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A fundraising email is not the right place to thank Board members, reflect on events that already happened, spotlight a wonderful volunteer, or highlight a major donor. For example: “Many teen girls struggle with their self-esteem thanks to Instagram and Snapchat. These jobs can be accessed via public transportation.

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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

Museum 2.0

It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary.

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Nonprofit Strategic Planning: Ultimate Guide + 7 Examples

Bloomerang

The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them. This statement should use precise language but non-finite verbs. Your mission statement should dive into why your organization exists.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

You do not need to be an “artist” to make a postcard, but each participant is surprised and delighted by their creativity and to see that their cards contain colors, words and images that reflect their strongest selves. I feel that art is able to translate beyond language, and communicate a much larger vision of personal connection.

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Betting on Braincake: Interview with Jen Stancil

Museum 2.0

Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. Jen and I sat down to talk about building for teens, working the web, and the role of innovation in museums. The content starts with the teen team.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

Museum 2.0

By understanding what individuals are highlighting about the Exploratorium experience, the museum can craft its own messaging--and programming--to reflect and enhance the elements seen as most valuable. Here are three examples of changes you could make: Change the language and presentation of comment cards.

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Book Club Part 6: Getting People in the Door

Museum 2.0

But there’s another kind of threshold fear I care about: the one that keeps museums from fully embracing and jumping into new ways of engaging the public, new ways of including visitors. Which reflects a more basic question: who are museums serving, and how does their design support that customer? But many are about personnel.

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