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How the Indianapolis Zoo Preserved their Visitor Experience with Dynamic Pricing

Connection Cafe

Curious about their model, I reached out to Dennis Woerner , the director of marketing for the Indianapolis Zoo, and asked him to talk to tell me more about their pricing system. According to Woerner, the decision to move to a dynamic pricing model was years in the making. They began to build a dynamic ticketing model.

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TechSoup Honors Unsung Heroes

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As a global organization, Habitat has developed a model. It feels like the model that is laid forth in my Christian faith. Betty Martin is director of the Cape Girardeau Public Library , which is located about 115 miles southeast of St. that] allows local affiliates to innovate solutions to poverty.

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The American Public Gardens Association and TechSoup's National Accounts Program

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APGA, for example, uses a model hotel agreement for their annual conference. Missouri Botanical Garden Café in St. Louis was named the state's firest certified green restaurant. As one might expect they are deeply passionate about the environment. Longwood Gardens.

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Here’s Your Chance – A Message to All New Graduates in Philanthropy

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One was going to work as a systems analyst for Anheuser Busch; one friend was going into a leadership program with SBC Global (now AT&T); and another was going into a manager training program at Enterprise – all prominent St. But I had no idea what I wanted to do. And this gave my parents some reservations.

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How Do You Make a Nonprofit Board Not Boring?

Have Fun - Do Good

What are new models you've seen that work to create engaged, creative, effective boards whose meetings its members look forward to? When working with the Girl Scouts in St. Louis, we took the board members to one of our camps for an overnight. "Fun," "inspiring" and "efficient" aren't words I would use to describe them.

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

Museum 2.0

From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. As Streb explains, "SLAM is an open-access venue that models a new kind of artist-driven community institution. In other words, they're not pretentious.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St. Louis, whereas others are august stalwarts like the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Tags: children's museums design business models. It creates another forgettable museum. Do you share my love of idiosyncratic institutions?

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