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Sustaining Innovation (in Many Different Situations)

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Last week, I sat on the jury for the first Cultural Innovation International Prize given by the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona , and this week, I'm offering a workshop for museum professionals across Poland participating together in a "Museum Lab" in Warsaw. The second post , in which Museum 2.0

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Your Cause Camp 2018 Lineup is Here

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She has created a company that is reflective of her diverse professional and personal experiences and her desire to make philanthropy accessible to everyone. She also teaches in the philanthropy graduate program at Saint Mary’s University, Minnesota, USA. Julie Hirshey. philadelphiaeagles.com.

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The #1 Skill Nonprofit Professionals Should Focus on in 2021

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Others are looking at no demand at all, and with it, no revenue, because their mission involved gathering large groups of people in places like theaters, galleries, and museums. They know that if they put their name on a poorly made product, it reflects on their good name—and degrades their ability to make money. .

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Foot in the Door: A Powerful Participatory Exhibit

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I spent last week working with staff at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) on ways to make this encyclopedic art museum more open to visitor participation across programs, exhibitions, and events. The rules are clear: anyone who lives in Minnesota and considers her/himself an artist can contribute one piece.

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How False Conviction Could Help Science Centers Be More Human

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I cut out from the meeting by myself to check out an exhibition called Open House, if These Walls Could Talk at the Minnesota History Center. If there was a way to engage these deep emotions in the context of science museums, then there is an opportunity to expand our impact. Not that it was sad, but that it was human.

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Into the Deep End: What's Keeping Museums from Telling Meaty, In-Depth Stories?

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It has introduced me to corrupt university fundraisers , the true history of Tom Dooley , and the world's oldest marathon runner. All this delightful non-fiction makes me wonder: why aren't museums great at telling these same kinds of deep, intense stories? This seems strange given that museums are organized around objects.

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