Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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Storytelling Donor Cancer Guidelines 75

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition showcases collectors from throughout Santa Cruz County--people with collections from animal skulls to dryer lint to priceless historic flags. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. I asked each person to fill in cells in a matrix. Now add a layer in your mind showing the people represented in those circles and lines. These are opportunities for meaning making.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 104

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. Wherever possible, Vi personalized the tour to individuals in the group. Vi was unapologetically personal about her own relationship to the content on display. She told family stories.

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Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They’re no longer “an exhibit” per se—more of an evocative design element that hints at an important story told elsewhere in the museum. We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. Maybe this person was writing about his or her preference for neon paper products, but I doubt it.

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Participatory San Diego Museum History 48

sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Participatory grantmaking has been a big part of the Boston’s Women’s Fund since its founding. So, the organization created a space specifically for the younger people in their community to nominate causes and have agency over some of the grantmaking decisions. It requires us to love and trust young people to make these decisions.

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Voice Strategy Mississippi Boston 70

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

What should we do with their post-its and stories and drawings and poems? This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it.

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Participatory Music Project Video 48

The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In recent years, crowdfunding has emerged as a popular fundraising strategy, leveraging the power of small contributions from a large number of people online. The Three Pillars of Crowdfunding – Purpose, Perks, and People Drilling down a bit further, modern nonprofit crowdfunding can be divided into three main categories.

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Game Fundraising Campaign Generation 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

" Taking it a little deeper, organizations should not go in the other direction - and be strategic in friending people. offers personal insights in opening up to new ideas and letting go of information, hierarchy and "proprietary" thinking. each of various qualities. More here ). * The mindshift to be successful.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2017

I first read about Story House Belvédère on Jasper Visser’s excellent blog, The Museum of the Future. This small, startup cultural project in Rotterdam works directly and intimately with community members to share their stories. I hope you’ll be as charmed and inspired by Story House Belvédère as I am.

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Storytelling Story Photography Museum 39

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2013

Earlier this year, I was fascinated to read the account of a participatory project at the Morrison County Historical Society in Minnesota, in which community members were invited to write essays about “what’s it like” to have various life experiences in the County. You have to remind people, keep reaching out.

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History Museum Minnesota Participatory 51

Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

Imagine you want to invite people to meaningfully engage with a serious topic in an exhibition. I was reminded of this "care, then act" framework when I saw a recent story about a student's experience at a powerful issue-driven exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center, Half the Sky. How would you do it?

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Story Participatory Museum History 47

Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

I’m sure we each have stories like this. It can empower people across locations to share their individual ideas and build on others’ ideas. It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. And now the tone was…#TechFail! Except when it isn’t!

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

The events are informal, personal, and fun, but our feedback mechanism--onsite and post-event surveys--not so much. We have an intern, Kathryn, who emailed each participant individually to thank them for coming, shared their personal photo, and gave them the link to the rest of the photos. We got more feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The design challenge was: How do we come up with concrete tools, frameworks and methods for helping people better understand and adopt network systems leadership? How do we get a telling the story about why this all important? Which comes from the Participatory Facilitator’s Guide. Once upon a time x happened.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. What may be culturally-determined, however, is HOW people want to participate. In different countries, I''ve noticed broad trends in how people feel most comfortable sharing their voice. For years, I''ve heard some version of this refrain.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

The people who are part of a specific community are the experts in that field, and they should be part of the creative process, not just used to “run ideas by,” or as focus groups when we conduct user-testing. The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. fancy food!

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Design Experiment Nonprofit Collaboration 52

Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. Psst, also consider entering the Muse Awards come 2020, but that's a story for another day) @artlust doing a charming job hosting us at #museawards #AAM2019 ! People go to school because they have to or want to in order to get to their goal.

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Museum Participatory Interaction Classroom 35

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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Story Interview Museum Audio 53

Achieve

JULY 27, 2017

"Movements are built by and for the people. The people generate the movement, spread the rallying cry of the message, and depend on one another to meet the collective’s goals in addressing the social issue at hand. Or take a stand for a concept that may never even affect them personally? How does your organization help people?

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Question Develop Help Language 52

Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2018

In the past, I treated keynotes as opportunities to share insights and stories. I want people to take action. I was afraid I couldn't give a talk that would inspire people to participate. I realized I was feeling the same fear and excitement that comes with any truly participatory project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

” Her definition of an engaged leader is someone who uses digital, mobile, and social tools strategically to achieve established goals as they relate to leading people and managing organizations. Listen at Scale: How to determine what people need from them and to deepen and enhance their relationship.

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Digital Strategy Chapter Advice 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

The opening chapters include many stories about networks and collective action and pull out key themes and strategies. In addition to the stories, you’ll find additional resources related to each theme. Designing for serendipity: Creating environments, in person and online, where helpful connections can form.

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Network Report Empowerment Structure 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

It brought together a rich mix of people working in humanitarian causes, using social media, and creatives. Many passionate people and stories. . Giving the audience a chance to interact and discuss content in full groups, share pairs, and small groups allowed for some great stories to emerge from the group.

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Conference Long Beach Slides Lecture 85

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. If you want people to write and/or draw, encourage them to draw. People love pleasant surprises.

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Design Participatory Learning Instruction 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” 2: Mobile Usage. #3:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Whether it was a 12 year old starting a fundraising drive to help homeless , GivingTuesday matching grant challenges , nonprofits launching crowd funding campaigns , sharing unselfies about why they give , people sharing their giving stories – yesterday was about abundance in the nonprofit sector versus scarcity.

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Philanthropy Global Participatory New York 50

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. questions that draw from personal experience, not abstraction. speculative (what if?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

Last week, the local newspaper did a really generous front-page story on my museum (the MAH) and the changes here over the past eight months since I started. We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county. but I didn't have numbers to back it up.

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Audience Museum Participatory History 47

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The tours are pricey, personalized, NOT affiliated with the museums involved… and very, very popular. Dustin: About a year ago I met a couple of people from Museum Hack at a conference. I heard incredible—and often salacious—stories behind hidden gems I’d walked past numerous times. Today on Museum 2.0,

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Museum Interview New York Interaction 55

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. There's a huge difference between the edgy, DIY beauty of Candy Chang 's participatory urban artworks and the dayglow colors, exclamatory language , and preschool fonts of most museum interactives.

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Interaction Design Museum Participatory 47

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

It's only 15 minutes, so I encourage you to watch it , but here are the crib notes for the video-adverse without the hilarious stories and charming photographs. We can change that by embracing participatory culture and opening up to the active, social ways that people engage with art, history, science, and ideas today.

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Museum Open Charlotte Participatory 55

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 9, 2017

Because I really respect the person who invited me--with apprehension--I said yes. Sometimes, choosing NOT to participate is a powerful statement that protects ownership of your voice and story as your own. The problem, of course, is when you choose not to participate, most people don't see it as a noble protest.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. They can contribute their own stories, objects, and creative work to exhibitions. What started as a fun personal project for her will hopefully become part of our permanent history gallery--a space we are trying to make more interactive over the coming years.

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