Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. CA: One of the best things that happened to me while volunteering for the local art museum is they funded my travel to Los Angeles and my tuition to take the week-long grant writing training bootcamp hosted by The Grantsmanship Center. My mind was a sponge.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 25, 2011

Musical Instrument Museum. As a member of the board of YNPN (Young Nonprofit Professionals Network) Phoenix, I have been fortunate to cross paths with some extraordinary emerging leaders, facilitators, mentors, and nonprofit sector thought leaders. Maureen Baker , Manager for Individual Giving.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 17, 2020

Have a conversation with a mentor or mentee. If you’re the mentor, reach out and see how you can help. Museums have been a great example for the rest of us in how to continue to engage with your audience even if they can’t visit you in person. Could you put a class online for free for all alumni?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

Workshops, panels, discussions, mentoring, a thriving job board, and networking are all part of WOC, as well as a sister branch, Allies in Action , for white allies to support and learn. A little more than one year later and we have over 1,000 members across all states in the U.S. and several countries.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Since I posted my " how I got here " post earlier this week, I've received lots of emails and comments from museum professionals, old and (mostly) young, about their own paths and struggles to get into the museum field. YOU MUST BE: working or trying to work in the museum field with less than five years of museum experience.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 8, 2015

I''m getting ready for the American Alliance of Museums conference later this month. In addition to reconnecting with old friends and mentors, I want to meet people who aren''t on my radar who will help me learn and grow. In this way, I''ve found my idols / mentors /friends--and learned a lot from their inspiring sessions.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Museums and Cultural Organizations: Families can serve as tour guides, interpreters, greeters, or program ushers. Remember, a family can be many things. When it comes to volunteering, a family can be any group of two or more people who define themselves as a family.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2020

That advice has served me incredibly well over the last seven years, and it frames how I try to approach problems at my museum. Fred Gold "My mentor gave me a simple, but profound piece of advice as I started my career: recognize the people who work with you and acknowledge them for who they are and what they're doing for the museum.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2013

I''m heading to the American Alliance of Museums'' annual conference this weekend, and I''m psyched to reconnect with friends and mentors and meet new people who can inspire and stimulate fresh ideas. How can small museums with limited resources do some meaningful research with our staff and volunteers? Let me know.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Please help us open the door for a teen to attend our personal development conference, benefit from having a mentor, and get on a path to college and a career.” . The mom has a job at a museum cafe, the older kids are in school, and the youngest attends a wonderful daycare center we are so fortunate to partner with.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

There's the barrier of the concern that this work is "social work" and not art--and therefore doesn't belong in a museum or a theater. He got to see the museum process from the inside. One of the institutions that really impresses me in supporting this kind of social change through the arts is, strangely enough, a children's museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

I had a bit of a wakeup call about internships last month at an "emerging leaders" lunch event at the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums conference. At our museum, we don't provide a lot of structured mentorship for interns. But we are ready to be much more upfront about what the internship experience is like at our museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Last week marked four years for the Museum 2.0 People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. Ed Rodley recently wrote a blog post about museum jobs entitled "Getting Hired: It's Who You Know and Who Knows You." hour at the Museum. I made $26/hour at NASA and $7.25/hour

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The Museum 2.0 I went alone, sent with a blessing from my boss at the International Spy Museum. Become their friends and invite them to be your mentors. As Museum 2.0 I started to see generous mentors everywhere. blog started because of a conference. In 2006, I attended a big conference for the first time (ASTC).

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Even better, nonprofits don’t have to define a specific project they can simply be willing to donate their time and data and our mentors will help find the most valuable effort they can. . We have student and mentors ready to provide high-quality web site analysis across the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, and even now in Africa.

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Analysis Los Angeles Mentoring Student 40

Museum 2.0

JUNE 21, 2016

By "mission-based institutions," I mean museums, libraries, theaters, parks, churches, synagogues, afterschool programs, informal science programs, zoos, aquaria, symphonies, historic sites, dance companies. Most of all, I hope you will continue to inspire, mentor, and motivate me in my work. The result is this book.

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Arts Case Study Reflection Mentoring 34

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition to being the co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, he is the Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. We created a sales gallery at Mystic Seaport Museum Stores, and began to invest in developing markets with collectors for artists. We do that through mentoring.

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Culture Global Interview New Mexico 51

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2006

This week Beth Kanter and I finished our week being mentors for the Young Caucasus Women Project. On Friday our mentor cycle ended and a new one will begin with a new mentor blogger tomorrow (Sunday). This is a project of the Getty Museum. (I Here is Beth's post and here is mine.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2007

Whatever your degree (or your opinion about museum graduate programs ), the thing that continues to be highly valued (and sought after by employers) is experience. I’m not talking about internships, which are as plentiful in museums as label copy. But I’ve never seen a museum advertising for apprentices. And that’s the trick.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 18, 2020

Perhaps they can help in finding jobs for graduating seniors if you’re working at a university, or maybe they can host a virtual tour of your museum for their contacts. I’ve also tried to find ways to connect with other fundraisers and to engage as a mentor. If they can’t (or won’t) give now, don’t write them off.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 17, 2011

We held the American Humanics Senior Recognition Dinner on Monday, April 25th at the George Washington Carver Museum and Community Center , led by a first-generation AH alumna, Princess Crump. I wondered, had I done enough, given the right advice, been a successful coach and mentor?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 29, 2011

museums, recreation centers, etc.) " Each time I pick up and take my "Little's" to a museum, a play, a waterpark, the zoo, there are layers of "nonprofitness" occurring and services being provided by a volunteer (me) who also works and is paid (ASU Lodestar Center staff) inside the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

When I graduated in 2003, I moved out here to California and worked with the San Jose Museum of Art before getting a job with Linden Labs. I learned a lot from San Jose Art Museum. I think it's a perfect space for recreating a museum, the whole experience of entering a gallery space and being surrounded by the artwork.

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Second Life Life Interview San Jose 50

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2006

I had dinner last week with some excellent folks from the board of NAME , the National Association for Museum Exhibition, a standing professional committee under AAM (American Association of Museums). There are also the “perks”—the magazine, free admission to museums—which enhance learning. Mentor partners?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2018

So big churches like Redeemer spend time mentoring and funding church plants. New churches bring new people to Christ. They bring new donors to Christ. And they bring fresh, innovative methods to pastors of churches old and new. What would it look like if our largest organizations actively championed and funded new, experimental upstarts?

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People Community Organization Podcast 32

Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Last week, Elaine Gurian and I talked about radical change in museums. Former museum start-up queen, Jen is taking a small organization whose goal is to promote girls’ involvement in math and science through research and programming to new, innovative, exciting places. But my background is in museum startups. With counsel.

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

Tenacious, Intelligent, Resourceful, Passionate, Insightful, Caring, Determined, and Fun are among the hundreds of words used to describe my friend and mentor, Simone Joyaux, since her passing last week. We had two unbelievable versions of this before COVID hit halting last year’s plans. .

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

One of my mentors, Michael Brown, told me, “The only way to get better is to change.” My interest in gaming in museums was ignited by working on Operation Spy, an immersive, narrative, live-action game experience at the International Spy Museum, and fueled by the CSI:NY virtual experience.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This year, the American Association of Museums annual conference was in Los Angeles (my hometown). I hosted two sessions, one on design for participation and the other on mission-driven museum technology development. He started with museums as a "place to go"--to see things, consume experiences. In this case, a heck of a lot.

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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Top volunteer activities were fundraising (25.4%); collecting or distributing food (24.2%); tutoring or teaching (18%) or mentoring youth (17.3%); and lending professional/managerial expertise (15%). (Hmm, I wonder if pet sitting or shoveling driveways was included?). Micro-volunteering.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

When she wasn't busy mentoring Francis Ford Coppola, pioneering the invention of the boom mic, or accepting her star on the Walk of Fame , Arzner was also the first woman to join the Director's Guild of America. Are you inspired by women in the arts? Shero Thought Leaders. Roxane Gay.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Many adults have become engaged with Scratch both as mentors/educators and as creators in their own right. Here is the user profile by age circa July 2008 (per this report ). While the largest grouping is from age 9-18, you can see the long tail of participants up into their 60s. And here is the creator profile by participation.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

Dear friends, This is my last post as the author of Museum 2.0. I'm thrilled that Seema Rao is taking this blog and museum community into its next chapter. You can find all my archived Museum 2.0 Today, I want to share a bit about what Museum 2.0 When I think of Museum 2.0, I started the Museum 2.0

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Well, that 80%, 60% of that money goes to large institutional organizations like hospitals and universities, and large cultural institutions, like museums, zoos, and libraries, and religious organizations. And then they help provide education opportunities and mentoring after school and then matriculate them into these four-year colleges.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

If you think of artists like Gaugin, or artists who paint naked indigenous women-- as women it's easier for us to get into a museum if we're naked in a painting. I decided that I was going to reach out to the mentors and the adults who I could learn something from. I think that is really important. What kind of messages do you get?

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