sgEngage

JUNE 21, 2012

The Giving USA 2012 report is out and it gives us a look at philanthropic trends from 2011. Giving by individuals, bequest, and family foundations amounted to 88% of total giving in 2011. This was the largest cash donation ever recorded to an art museum in the United States. subsectors for these two years.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

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. I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. Sometimes it isn''t.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

But we've just compiled all our attendance data for the past year at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (our fiscal year ends on June 30), and several people have written to me asking for the numbers behind our turnaround. The busiest day in both 2011 and 2012 is our longtime community program, Free First Friday.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

It's my second week as the Executive Director at The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz, CA, and boy is my everything tired. I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

I spent the weekend queuing up posts for my forthcoming blog-cation--nine weeks of guest posts and reruns from the Museum 2.0 I went to several big museum conferences in 2004-2006 where I identified and started admiring heroes in the field. As the readership for Museum 2.0 To me, Museum 2.0

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Back in 2011, I started collecting all the emails that nonprofits sent me during the month of December and reviewed what was in my inbox. Be sure to check out 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 too. Where my love of art began. Give the Gift of the Arts. The Art of Giving. The Gift of Giving. Thinking big.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2015

Be sure to give the 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 reviews a look too. The best end-to-end campaign was done by the Museum of Modern Art. A world without art is just boring. Happy Holidays from the Gibbes Museum! Reminder – Outward Bound Co-presented Screening at The Rubin Museum in NYC – TONIGHT!

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