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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Tony’s diverse background reflects his passion for giving and helping others. She is a veteran touring artist, songwriter, live sound engineer and music publisher. Steve’s diverse background reflects his passion for giving and helping others. She is also a 3rd generation auctioneer focusing on benefits.

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A Community-Driven Approach to Program Design

Museum 2.0

We had about thirty participants ranging from MAH trustees to artists, educators to architects, moms to grandfathers. We used Beck Tench's honeycomb format to present the six main goals for MAH community programs against which we'll assess new ideas (quickly--about the first ten minutes after introductions).

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

Museum 2.0

I'm focusing on the community response to the prospect of the millage and the way the public debate reflects broader conversations about the public value of the arts. 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).

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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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Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

Museum 2.0

The resulting (real) exhibits are high-quality experiences that reflect a level of creativity that could not have resulted from our scant in-house exhibit development staff. To produce that content, I put an ad on craigslist and invited artists down to The Tech to be videotaped while creating art.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

Museum 2.0

When I reflected on our museum, I realized we have some inconsistencies in how we calculate attendance. Why do we count participants in an art activity for families at a community center but not members of the Rotary Club to whom I give a presentation about the museum? as part of a meeting)? So perhaps the St.

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

Museum 2.0

This week at the ASTC conference, Kathy McLean, Tom Rockwell, Eric Siegel and I presented a session called “You Can’t Do That in Museums!” And while narrative-based museums have long dispensed with the concept that museums present a neutral point of view, science centers still feel that their trustworthiness rests on their objectivity.

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