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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Bloomerang

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Their arts and culture funding goes towards artists, curators, conservators, scholars, and organizations to ensure equitable access to excellent arts and cultural experiences.

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The Event-Driven Museum, One Year Later

Museum 2.0

A year ago, I wrote a post speculating about whether events (institutionally-produced programs) might be a primary driver for people to attend museums, with exhibitions being secondary. Many museums, big and small, thrive on events. At our museum, about 68% of casual visitors (non-school tours) attended through events this year.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Kindful

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Their arts and culture funding goes towards artists, curators, conservators, scholars, and organizations to ensure equitable access to excellent arts and cultural experiences.

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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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Cool App Roundup: Arts Organization Edition

Tech Soup

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 Dallas Museum. museum, expanding access to the mobile tours even further. YBCA has developed apps with both educational and social.

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Memo from the Revolution: Six Things I've Learned from our Institutional Transformation

Museum 2.0

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to give one of the closing talks at the Theater Communications Group annual conference in Dallas. TCG is the industry association for non-profit theaters, the way AAM is for museums. When I came to the museum in May of 2011, we were on the brink of closure financially. They looked junky.

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