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Why Your Giving Day is Your Secret Weapon

M+R

Museums can have a hard time soliciting smaller dollar annual gifts tied to mission, rather than a new exhibit, and this is a great place to turn the focus to why donor support matters. Pi Day, celebrating math and science, is the Museum’s signature day of giving.

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Tech Tools Working Together: How Text-To-Donate Paves the Way for Text Message Communication

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Gabrielle Mizrathi , Senior Business Partnerships Manager with City Harvest , New York City’s largest food rescue organization, shared a solution in a recent interview , “We added a service called Fifth Message , so after someone completes a donation, they receive another text message that says, ‘ Thanks for your donation.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

A weekly update with the latest news from PND. Met Museum receives $125 million pledge for Modern Wing renovation. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has announced a $125 million pledge from trustee emeritus Oscar L. Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang to fund the renovation of the museum’s Modern Wing.

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40+ Unforgettable Live Auction Items that Sell Well

Bloomerang

Food and drink auction items that sell There are plenty of “foodies” across the country who would be interested in food and drink auction items— surveys show that 69% of Americans cook regularly, and 74% of people who have traveled in the past year do so for the food.

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Feelings and Participation

Museum 2.0

Me with a friend As I keep saying, I’ve been to a few museums of late. In reflecting on the sample, I’ve made some broad reflections on museum workers and visitors. Our visitors often see museums as a genre, not unlike hospitals or libraries. But, while adjacent, museums differ from formal classrooms in numerous ways.

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Cool App Roundup: Arts Organization Edition

Tech Soup

The Dallas Museum. museum, expanding access to the mobile tours even further. Museum of African American History's mobile web app likewise runs on most mobile devices with a web browser. survey from Trudel/MacPherson. Unlike a native app, a mobile web app is "device agnostic," meaning it can be. The DuSable.

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1stfans: An Audience-Specific Membership Program at the Brooklyn Museum

Museum 2.0

The conventional wisdom on museum memberships is that they are "one size fits many" programs whose primary benefits are free entrance to the museum and insider access to exhibition openings. But what about all the other people who love your museum? Want to know how the Brooklyn Museum is answering this question?

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