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Grantseeking Basics: Developing a Grant Project

Tech Soup

A couple of years ago, outreach, training, and fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding , posted some great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries. Outcomes are used to identify a change in behavior, attitude, or knowledge in the people being served by the project. Project Outcomes. Objectives.

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10 Ways to Immediately Invest in Your Nonprofit Organization

NonProfit Hub

Especially with that liberal arts degree… …Despite the fact that you could gain valuable experience, confidence and the connections that make getting jobs and work experience much easier—and there’s a boat of evidence a college degree is correlated with an increase in your total lifetime earnings. That’s costly overhead!

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The Great Good Place Book Discussion Part 1: Can Cultural Institutions Be Third Places?

Museum 2.0

Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. While the talk may encompass serious topics, the attitude is light and the conversation is not structured or overly guided.

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The Great Good Place Book Discussion Part 2: Small Rural Museums as Third Places

Museum 2.0

This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (SLHC) is a small museum located in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0

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Creature Comfort: Where are the Couches in Museums?

Museum 2.0

I visited a friend last weekend who works at a coffee shop in downtown Santa Cruz, right next to the Museum of Art and History. And on the walls, my friend explained, was art from the museum itself. Why doesn’t the whole Museum of Art and History look and feel like the coffee shop? There was funky music.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

changes in awareness or attitude) or tangible results (e.g. What changes in knowledge, or attitudes, or skills are you looking for, and how might they be measured? Zen and the Art of Non-profit Technology. Consider the different ways you might measure the success of a specific process (e.g. impacts on decision making).

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Self Care in the Museum Workplace

Connection Cafe

Elizabeth) Unfortunately, we don’t have any museum telecommuting policies in the Alliance sample documents library, but now that you’ve asked, we are on the hunt. We just did an attitude assessment test and discussed it at our all staff meeting. Q: Do you know any museums that have implemented telecommuting successfully?

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