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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

4) Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop :: shop.artic.edu. The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop sells unique and beautiful objects from around the world in support of the arts. Audubon Marketplace gifts are unique and play an important role in protecting our birds and butterflies. Perfect gifts for the nonprofit techie!

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Q&A with sgLEADERS: H. Beecher Hicks, III, National Museum of African American Music

sgEngage

Beecher Hicks III, President & CEO of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville, TN. NMAAM is the only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the many music genres created, influenced, and inspired by African Americans. Even though the museum is now open, the Museum Without Walls will continue.

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Q&A with sgLEADERS: H. Beecher Hicks, III, National Museum of African American Music

Connection Cafe

Beecher Hicks III, President & CEO of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville, TN. NMAAM is the only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the many music genres created, influenced, and inspired by African Americans. Even though the museum is now open, the Museum Without Walls will continue.

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A Decade of Museums and Museum Work

Museum 2.0

I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying. But I couldn’t get there.

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Joint Statement from Museum Bloggers and Colleagues on Ferguson and Related Events

Museum 2.0

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. The recent series of events, from Ferguson to Cleveland and New York, have created a watershed moment.

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Curtis Memorial Library: A Tradition of Local Support

DipJar

They’re so much more than book museums. The Curtis Friends is a non-profit organization whose mission is to enhance the library’s role as a valued community resource through advocacy, fundraising, and volunteerism. At DipJar, we love our customers. Public libraries are some of our favorites.

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Alumni giving’s growing relationship with high-profile, big money donors 

Candid

To honor Pickens’ lifetime giving to OSU of $650 million, a museum focused on his legacy is being constructed inside the school’s Boone Pickens football stadium. Combined with New York State’s matching funds, this gift effectively tripled the school’s endowment—bringing the Simons’ lifetime giving to $1.2

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