article thumbnail

Non-Traditional Giving Days for Your Next Fundraiser

The Modern Nonprofit

This means that through most of the year, the fundraising beat sounds more like a faint pulse. to plan a monthlong peer-to-peer fundraising campaign: February = Black History Month, American Heart Month, Oral Hygiene Awareness Month, Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, Eating Disorder Awareness Month.

Giving 98
article thumbnail

Talking Through Objects 2: The Rollercoaster Conundrum

Museum 2.0

Sure, it's social, but people stick to their own "pods"--families, teens, adults--and don't diverge or merge. Out on the boardwalk, or at the zoo or a museum, there's a common experience of the sights, sounds, smells, activities of the place. Step 3: a successful "five" is given. Why does this happen? You'd have to do it face to face.

Museum 20
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

ISO Understanding: Rethinking Art Museum Labels

Museum 2.0

Sounds great. When producing for/by kids, there was more of an emphasis on giving the feel of the piece—with music, stories about the artist, comments about other art the artist produced—and those context clues helped me step into the art more emotionally. How do I start? “So, So, how’s it hanging?”

Arts 30
article thumbnail

Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

Museum 2.0

I watched many entertaining shorts featuring students explaining exhibits to the beat of popular and illegally uploaded music. When I watch the videos teens created at the Exploratorium and post on YouTube, I see the aspects of the exhibits they thought were most important to share with their classmates.

Museum 20
article thumbnail

Eight Other Ways to "Connect with Community"

Museum 2.0

It sounds as if Mr. Sametz is frantically casing city streets with a heat-seeking metal detector, on the hunt for a miscellaneous batch of confused folks whom he can stun into "connection." We're always happy for more bodies in the door, but if supporting teens means alienating seniors, there's a problem.

article thumbnail

One-Man Bands and Museum Labor as an Access Barrier

Museum 2.0

He wandered around the big top playing music with his jiggered musical contraption attached to his body. Seemingly without thought, cymbal hand and kazoo mouth sounded in time with keyboard hand and horn foot. If you have a teen program running, there are no second teen programs person out drumming up business.

Museum 29
article thumbnail

Brahm Ahmadi, People's Grocery, Podcast Transcript

Have Fun - Do Good

We do a lot of work with teens in the summertime. you know, with the sound system and lettering all over it, and then number two, "Why are you doing this?" If you liked the opening music, it was an excerpt from Kenya Masala's, "Mango Delight." We have a program called, "Collards and Commerce."

People 43