Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2023

The purpose of Pride Month is to recognize the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history. Their approach is holistic, with a variety of programs focused on cultural arts, wellness, and social justice. Pride Month isn’t all celebrations and rainbows!

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Qgiv

MARCH 25, 2024

Many benefit concerts become annual events or make history for their cause. Held annually at Carnegie Hall, this event not only invites attendees to revel in captivating musical performances but also serves as a vital platform for celebrating and safeguarding Tibetan culture.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

She has a big heart for and background in social change and activism. As an educated, well cultured and traveled individual with an amazing life story, her empathy and passion allows her to tell amazing stories and inspire hearts to give. Jude, Make A Wish, American Cancer Society, and The Museum of African American History.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Earlier this fall, I read this headline: "Stanford study: Participation in a cultural activity may reduce prejudice." I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. I wanted to know more.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2020

It’s for this reason that I’ve found the Native community a particularly vital voice in this difficult period—after all, resistance and resilience are intrinsic elements of indigenous history and contemporary identity. Both pages have quickly amassed tens of thousands of followers and, curiously, few spammers and trolls.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Concert tickets Buying concert tickets has become like a competitive sport, as passionate fans flood ticket platforms to see their favorite artist live. For example, if your town is known for gorgeous cherry blossom trees, offering paintings with these trees by a local artist can inspire bidding.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2018

The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History keeps growing and experimenting in our quest to build a stronger, more connected community. The positions are: OFBYFOR ALL Communications Catalyst : to fuel the OFBYFOR ALL movement by organizing civic and cultural professionals online and at conferences around the world.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. In the past, I've highlighted a few--like 826 Valencia and the Denver Community Museum --that I think have already influenced the way many traditional cultural organization do business. Skill-sharing free schools.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

She is a lifelong artist, and was a therapist working in psychiatric hospitals before she made the leap into advertising (long story). Lisa Sonora Beam, The Creative Entrepreneur: How I Have Fun, Do Good Buy art from artists. One of the most fun ways to do good is to buy art and hand crafts directly from artists and artisans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Note From Beth: Yesterday, I attended a convening called “ Beyond Dynamic Adaptability ” for arts organizations about cultural participation in the arts. The creative process of making films is opening up and the outreach efforts to spark social change through documentary media are becoming much more dynamic and collaborative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Click here to listen to a very brief interview Over the weekend, I attended the Technology in the Arts Conference in Pittsburgh where artist and activist Faith Ringgold was one of the keynote speakers. " I had a chance to do a quick video interview with her about her thoughts on women artists. They are brilliant!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

When basketball players are offering more cogent commentary on racial issues than cultural institutions, you know we have a cultural relevance problem. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. Colleges are addressing greater cultural and racial understanding in various courses. Things must change.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

They tell histories of white male conquest. They present masterpieces by white male artists and innovations by white male scientists. Other reference points for museums--as community centers, as place-based narrative vehicles, as social or performance spaces--are suspect and often branded as "unprofessional."

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Since then, Stacey has become an indispensable member of our staff, leading our community programs and inspiring us to think in new ways about how we can build social capital in our community. There were times when coordinating a fire art festival while researching social capital theory made me want to burn my computer.

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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. design new programs with a focus on history. I promise--after this post, I'll stop writing about this.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

YBCA has developed apps with both educational and social. artist's influences and the exhibit, in the artist's own words. For example, YBCA's audiences loved having access to artists' own unfiltered words. The How Strong is Your Social Net? But beware of sensory overload. They also have some.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. What is Human Centered Design? Technique #1: Rose, Bud, Thorn (Understanding).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. They talked about community building.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

We spend most of our days with people who look like us, who share our culture, background, and class. Research shows that social bridges decrease racism, increase public safety, and improve community health. That's why our museum, the MAH in Santa Cruz, focuses on social bridging. Artists and activists exhibiting their work.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Over the past seven years, this exploration has been undertaken by a staff of artists and more than 35 creators each year participating in our residency program.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

Over the past two years, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has undergone a significant transformation of program, audience, and resources. Our revolution is predicated on three big ideas: Art and history are something you do, not just something you learn about. You want to have an artist collective sleepover at the museum?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH), we've started experimenting with a "community first" approach to program development. There are many amazing community representatives from business, arts, education, and social services who connect us to powerful ideas and partners. It was an evening meeting with beer and chips.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2011

She is a fabulous and thoughtful artist. It's a little living room in a lobby area that invites people to lounge on comfortable chairs, leaf through magazines and books related to art and Santa Cruz history, and generally hang out. For me, the goal is for people to have an enjoyable, educational, cultural, social experience.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It was a local history urban scavenger hunt that sent teams of 2-5 people out into the city to track down as many historic checkpoints as they could over the course of an evening. Race Through Time was designed specifically for this audience of 30 and 40-somethings looking for fun social events with a Santa Cruz bent.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2015

Visitors in front of the African Elephant Diorama at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHMLAC photo) This guest post was written by Karen Wise, Vice President, Education and Exhibits at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. “I History exhibits with hundreds of objects and no coherent story.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 30, 2023

Join us on a transformative journey as we explore the captivating history of Pride Month, uncover creative ways to extend our support far beyond June, and discover invaluable fundraising tools that will elevate our events to the next level. Get ready to make a lasting impact and empower change like never before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

I was first introduced to the concept of the gift economy and pay it forward many years ago when I was the community builder for a first generation online network for artists, called ArtsWire. There is a history of virtual gift giving. Tara Hunt has some great examples and thinking in this post. But, what would I buy?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

--Olivia Greer, Producing Director, Women Center Stage, about her experience at the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi. Just over a year ago, musician, Olivia Greer , was commissioned by Culture Project , a New York City theater company, to write a song for the Women Center Stage Festival.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

History Museums OPPORTUNITIES - History museums are in many ways the best-suited for visitor participation. As cultural anthropology has swung away from a vision of authoritative history and toward the embrace of multiple perspectives, there is potential for those stories to come from all over the place, including visitors themselves.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I honestly think the only kind of cultural institution that cannot support audience participation is one in which staff members don''t respect visitors or what they have to contribute.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday. History and science museums.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In a lot of ways, our successful turnaround at the MAH has been driven by both embracing incremental change and opening up clear opportunities for community organizations and individuals to "plug" their cultural brilliance into our space. We invited local artists and community groups to perform. We scrounged for free couches.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

I wrote The Participatory Museum for two reasons: to explore the "how" of participatory design in museums, cultural centers, libraries, and science centers to create a version of this blog that was more "shareable" with organizational leaders and trustees By many measures, the book has been a success. Social bridging? Empowerment?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible. You go online, and that’s why physical culture is at risk.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

We ran with it and have since generated data about decision-making, cooperation, competition and negotiation for scientists (and also some artists) to play with. He''ll be able to watch how certain activities evolve into coordination and what kinds of histories the people who most easily coordinate have in common.

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