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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Jude, Make A Wish, American Cancer Society, and The Museum of African American History. She is a veteran touring artist, songwriter, live sound engineer and music publisher. Over the past 15 years, Allen has volunteered for small elementary schools to major museums and nonprofits raising millions of dollars.

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A Community-Driven Approach to Program Design

Museum 2.0

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH), we've started experimenting with a "community first" approach to program development. We had about thirty participants ranging from MAH trustees to artists, educators to architects, moms to grandfathers. It was an evening meeting with beer and chips.

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A Different Story of Thanksgiving: The Repatriation Journey of Glenbow Museum and the Blackfoot Nations

Museum 2.0

The book is a deep account of repatriation of spiritual objects from museums to native people, written by museum people and Blackfoot people together. This story starts in 1960s, though of course, the story of the Blackfoot people and their dealings with museums started way before that. The museums were not.

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The Public Argument About Arts Support as Seen through the Lens of the Detroit Institute of Arts

Museum 2.0

Residents in the three counties that pay the millage will receive special benefits : free admission to the museum and expanded educational programming. But the arguments trotted out represent how far we have to go in articulating the public value of arts institutions (and helping our supporters speak the same language). Rebuttal: none.

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Adventures in Artist-Driven Public Engagement: Machine Project at the Hammer Museum

Museum 2.0

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Thing a Day: Good or Glib?

Museum 2.0

We use these processes to get us to an end goal, then wipe the desk clean and present the finale as an isolated, perfect thing. Others are artistic projects—Jonathon Coulton’s popular Thing a Week (he writes a song each week), Scott McCloud's " Morning Improv " comics. How can museums learn from it? Where do museums fit in?

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Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

Museum 2.0

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. Some museum pros have been puzzled by this.

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