Volunteer Hub

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Check out how Holocaust Museum Houston is using VolunteerHub to recruit volunteers. VolunteerHub helps to solve this problem by providing organizations with an automated process for communication and engagement. Retention has always been a top challenge for volunteer coordinators.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

TCG is the industry association for non-profit theaters, the way AAM is for museums. Given TCG''s multi-year Audience (R)evolution initiative, I took the opportunity to write a new talk about what revolution has looked like at our small museum in Santa Cruz. At the same time, our community relevance was limited. More audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. Nina Simon from the Museums and Web2.0

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

The problem is that a lot of people get into the program, try to run some campaigns, and never get any meaningful results. They turn to Google with curiosity, questions, and problems; they seek distractions, ideas, and solutions for the challenges they face. The program has been in existence 2003. Strategy 2: Finding New Volunteers.

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DipJar

AUGUST 9, 2022

They’re so much more than book museums. With foot traffic returning, the power problems (not enough outlets!) 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.

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Library Local Support New York 98

Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

One of the participants had to take an onsite museum role, where volunteers staff educational carts and engage with visitors, and transform it info a remote position. Your virtual volunteer roles will probably require better resources and technology. It’s a funny video thanks to the props and a good on-the-fly solution.

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Roles Virtual Volunteer Demonstration 70

Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2017

Advocacy is a way to showcase your organization’s mission while solving a problem at the same time. With a plan and resources, you can arm your biggest supporters with the tools they need to be stewards for your cause. This year, I had the privilege to join fellow museum professionals at Museum Advocacy Day.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2020

But here are some of my reflections from this year in museum work: Camp Life: I came to camping late and through my children. We did many of the things we did before, but with many fewer resources. I’ve had plenty of personal work problems, as anyone would. What’s your museum trigger word? But those were localized.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2020

Read next: 4 Ways AI is the Next Big Game-Changer in Museum Membership & Attendance. Lots of thought leaders working at the intersection of technology and the nonprofit have created valuable resources to help make all this chatter about data and KPIs digestible for nonprofits that may be unfamiliar with tech lingo. What is a KPI?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2018

You run a regional museum. This is the plan that plunged the Berkshire Museum into hot water. In July, the Berkshire Museum released its $60,000,000 New Vision , along with a funding mechanism: selling 40 of its most valuable artworks. It states that museums can only sell objects to purchase or care for other objects.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Work for many museum managers has gotten real recently, I suspect. The problems in this field are real, and so many of us want to be the ones to solve them. I am truly appreciative of this resource. Museums are a very small sector ( though larger than coal-mining! ). It’s disjointed and siloing. It’s hateful and harmless.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2013

In the course of the conversation, Devon Smith, a social media consultant from Threespot, started talking the problem of arts organizations that are no longer relevant or useful to their communities. But here I sit, the director of a museum that almost closed, squirreling away money for an operating reserve. I am part of the problem.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The problem of overhead funding has been a decades long issue within nonprofits. For example, human resources hire effective staff, ensure proper training, and provide payroll and benefits, all of which allow direct service staff to be successful in their implementation of programs.

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Build Arizona Guidelines Nonprofit 52

Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

More involved in-person fundraisers or campaigns that require lots of resources can eat into your profit margins. An emergency campaign can help you raise the money you need to effectively deal with the problems at hand. Virtual tours for museums. With virtual fundraising, it’s also much easier to expand your reach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? If you think about what a museum curator does, it is very similar. Content Curation for Nonprofits. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Let me know in the comments.

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Twenty Hats

AUGUST 18, 2020

For eight months, 30 museum-based volunteer managers gathered to explore challenges specific to their brand of volunteer engagement. After all, how often do you get a block of time devoted just to you, where your peers are focused on solving your problems? My second circle was much more specialized.

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BoardAssist

MAY 16, 2017

We know that nonprofits have limited resources to commit to energy management, and when just starting out, it can feel like a daunting task. Guided by science and economics, they find practical and lasting solutions to the most serious environmental problems. Thanks for the great tips Natalie! .

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 26, 2019

It may no longer be summer, but Kelsey’s list of books, articles and other resources is relevant year-round. From partnerships and data to cybersecurity to hyperfocus on specific problems, read through five trends predicted for 2019 and decide which will continue into 2020. A lot has been changing in the museum world.

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Blackbaud Chart Trend Museum 34

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

posted by Karla Lant Lead Writer, Museum of Science and Sustainability. Every marketer understands the challenge of competing for attention among a sea of content with limited resources. Make your organization's blog a true resource for anyone interested in the issue. Nevertheless, great marketing is possible for nonprofits.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 15, 2016

posted by Karla Lant Lead Writer, Museum of Science and Sustainability. One of the core problems that many nonprofits face is that although we work to serve or protect people or resources that are often called “priceless,” this failure to monetize our causes has the ironic effect of rendering them valueless.

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Palau Work Tips Nonprofit 40

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Picturing the Problem. What we can do to address the problem. " It highlights ways that we can all work together to address the problem. Images: The Internet Is Important to Everyone was developed by OCLC and made possible with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The infographic.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

How do you find fresh and inspiring resources in your field? But most of these resources live in narrow silos, invisible to most of us. The result is that the resources we know most about tend to be limited to those in our respective silos, and stories about giant organizations. There are some industry blogs and twitter feeds.

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2015

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies. The Twitter feed @fakeproducthunt has daily fake solutions to problems that don’t exist. The problem of finding the best cat pictures has dogged (ahem) the Internet for eons. Read more posts on our blog. Okay, decades.

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Forum One

MARCH 23, 2021

Business goals : What problem are you trying to solve? Your audience is ultimately the one interacting with the site, and so you want to be certain that you’re solving the right problems. This example also shows two menu items, “Resources” and “News”, that don’t expand. More menu navigation resources to explore.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

After more than 13 years working with nonprofit and cultural institutions, like the Denver Botanic Gardens , our firm has seen that these problems are epidemic. The big problem is that most nonprofit web design projects are considered a one-time expense, instead of a long-term investment. Mind Shift: Expense Versus Investment.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? Jaeger explains that to be actionable, an idea must be concrete and address a problem or issue. We use mobile apps to capture memories, keep track of tasks, entertain ourselves, and communicate.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2007

Louis City Museum's amateur video contest. And therein lies an essential problem with this and other similar museum forays into Web 2.0: For those who haven't visited, the City Museum is part obstacle course, part art city, part shoelace factory. second video shot entirely within the City Museum. follow-through.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

For each American who has a disability that affects access to information and communication capabilities, there are tech solutions that could be delivered through broadband to make that resource accessible. Specific comments on the proposed Clearinghouse. Specific comments on the proposed Chairman’s Awards.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Last week, I was in Minneapolis for the American Association of Museums annual meeting. Kathleen McLean led a terrific session called "Dangerous Ridiculous" about risk-taking in museums. Interestingly, at my museum, our team is naturally better at ridiculous than we are at dangerous. I found this idea really powerful.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

This expresses itself most powerfully in museums when we talk about building relationships with visitors over time. But museums are one-night stand amnesiacs in the relationship department. This is terrible, both for the visitor and for the museum. And for most institutions there's no practical solution to the problem.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2013

Recently, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) published guides to help community organizations create or expand programs to close the digital divide. Additional Resources. NTIA Toolkit (PDF). IMLS Getting Started Guide (PDF).

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 9, 2009

I once asked Eric Siegel, the Director of the New York Hall of Science, why museums are rarely innovative shining stars on the cutting edge of culture. He commented that as non-profits, museums are built to survive, not to succeed. Unlike startups and rock stars, museums aren't structured to shoot for the moon and burn up trying.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

In this guide, we will walk through: How Nonprofits Use Silent Auction Fundraising The Essential Steps to Planning a Fundraising Silent Auction Additional Resources for Silent Auction Fundraisers. Art & History Museums Maitland is planning a virtual 3-day online art auction for summer 2021. Let’s dive in! Want to learn more?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 15, 2010

Dear Museum 2.0 My book, The Participatory Museum , has done incredibly well so far, but there's a problem: the interactive components aren't working. My book, The Participatory Museum , has done incredibly well so far, but there's a problem: the interactive components aren't working. Thanks in advance.

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