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How to Create a Volunteer Handbook Your Volunteers Will Use

Get Fully Funded

Volunteer policies and procedures: It is critical that you have policies and procedures in place that minimize potential problems that could arise. Policies and procedures give volunteers the information and structure they need to feel confident in their role, especially when they are just getting started.

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The most recent Pew Internet Project Internet and technology use studies show how immersed teens and young adults are in the online environment and how tied they are to the mobile and social sides of it. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones.

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10 Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

All that said, here’s some very useful advice on monthly giving programs from Funraise: Have a process in place for when credit cards expire and a well-planned strategy for monthly donor retention. A public search has a way of getting in front of new eyes, thus new donors and sponsors. 3) Launch a Tribute Giving Program.

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Sustaining Innovation Part 3: Interview With Sarah Schultz of the Walker Art Center

Museum 2.0

The Walker is also a place where everyone is committed to supporting artists and new work, so every time we bring in an artist, staff are enthusiastic about the idea of coming together to create something. In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience. And the guards were watching them; they didn't trust teens.

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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

Museum 2.0

Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary. We have prioritized opening up to as many partners as possible through collaborative structures that scale. In the meantime, here are some.

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Participatory Design Vs. Design for Participation: Exploring the Difference

Museum 2.0

Is an exhibit participatory if no visitor sees a place for her own contribution? It was co-designed by staff across the Ontario Science Centre, teen co-conspirators, and visitors via a series of ingenious brainstorming and making exercises developed by Julie Bowen and her brilliant team.

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Don't Talk to Strangers? Safety 2.0

Museum 2.0

The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? I think it's a good thing that librarything gives me a way to talk to strangers about books that feels safer than approaching the drooling guy at the public library. Structure the space with a clear story (and commensurate rules). The irritating design?

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