Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Similar to the list I shared for nonprofits focusing on education , arts and culture tends to be a very popular issue area for American foundations. The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. Funding Priority: Arts & Culture. Ford Foundation.

Arts 111

Arts Culture Grant Fund 111

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Read on and take inspiration from these creative membership fundraising ideas and their potential to connect with your audience this year! Here are a few creative ideas and examples—especially for parents with young children. Here are a few creative ideas and examples—especially for parents with young children.

Ideas 104

Ideas Fundraising Giving Museum 104

Forum One

MARCH 30, 2021

We are very excited to connect with the amazing people who work hard to amplify the online museum experience at this year’s virtual MuseWeb 2021 conference in April. Conversational Marketing: Can Chatbots Increase Engagement with Your Museum? Speaker : Christine Perlick , Senior Account Manager, Forum One.

Museum 88

Museum Experiment Arkansas Culture 88

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The ideas below are merely speculative, but completely possible. For location-based nonprofits such as museums, performing arts venues, zoos, health clinics, churches, etc., Point of Sale Transactions. mobile wallets clearly make sense for processing tickets and goods and services sales: 2.

Mobile 249

Mobile Fundraising Donation Paypal 249

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. I'm looking for guest posts, ideas, and examples of nonprofits using crowdsourcing for their programs, fundraising, and marketing. What is the Luce Foundation Center doing?

Museum 92

Museum Campaign Flickr Arts 92

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2011

To help jumpstart your creativity, here are 22 ideas to ponder: 1. In museum tour materials. For art walks. In fundraising appeals. In print newsletters. At fundraising events – galas, marathons, etc. On flyers and community billboards. At protests. At conferences. At check-out lines. On tabletops in restaurants.

Campaign 274

Campaign Awareness Fundraising Nonprofit 274

TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

What if museums were curated and funded by the internet, and allowed pieces to stay close to their cultural roots, displayed in a context that made sense? Native art in native museums, religious artifacts shown in temples, mosques and churches, and so on? That’s the premise of Arkive , which just raised a $9.6

Museum 86

Museum Build Arts Offline 86

Greater Giving

JULY 16, 2024

This blog post will unveil ten top-notch silent auction ideas to elevate your fundraising efforts. Unveiling Top Silent Auction Ideas 1. Focus on opinions that include: Behind-the-scenes Tour: Offer a unique perspective with a tour of a local museum, TV Studio, sports team, stadium, or business.

Ideas 87

Ideas Captivate Arts Audience 87

Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

Dear Museum 2.0 As of May 2, I will be the executive director of the Museum of Art & History at McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, CA (here's the press release ). I am closing down my consulting business at the end of April, but the Museum 2.0 Here are a few things that make the MAH an exciting museum to me: It's small.

Museum 55

Museum History Arts Consultant 55

Forum One

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Museums and cultural organizations, like the family of Smithsonian institutions and others we’re fortunate to work with at Forum One, have a wealth of opportunities when it comes to digital engagement. Consider all the ways that museums engage online. We help museums create these campaigns.

Museum 93

Museum Culture Audience Digital 93

sgEngage

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A genuine social media shout out from a happy visitor is fantastic for marketing your arts and cultural institution; consider it like a testimonial but not as arduous to solicit. According to The Art Newspaper’s annual survey in 2021, visits to the world’s 100 most-visited museums plummeted by 77% in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Arts 105

Arts Culture Organization Social Media 105

Forum One

APRIL 13, 2021

Museums, archives, and libraries share many goals and functions. The items that museums, archives, and libraries collect reflect the human spirit. Art, artifacts, books, and manuscripts are all documents of human innovation, thinking, and activity. They have been produced by people putting energy into telling their stories.

Museum 95

Museum Library Content Digital 95

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2011

I have a confession to make: I've never cared much about museums on the Web. When smart people talk about digital museums and virtual experiences, I nod and compartmentalize it as someone else's bailiwick. Walkerart.org is not about the Walker Art Center. It is the Walker Art Center, in digital form. Probably not.

Museum 51

Museum Arts Websites Digital 51

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Once upon a time, there was a beloved children’s museum in the middle of a thriving city. The brilliant team at the museum set out to find a bigger space and ran a successful capital campaign to expand to a much larger location. Like the set of the movie Night at the Museum , these guests had the whole museum to themselves.

Gift 105

Gift Raise Museum Arts 105

Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

And because we love rapid ideation and an excuse for a fundraiser here at Whole Whale, we’ve put together over 30 fun nonprofit fundraising ideas for you to spring into this season. SpringFundraising idea Number 2: Celebrate National Cereal Day with a pajama party for good. Art Show and Silent Auction. Click To Tweet.

Ideas 98

Ideas Fundraising Nonprofit Fun 98

Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

As the world continues to grapple with the ups and downs of COVID-19, it’s essential to meet your donors where they’re most comfortable, and that means coming up with inventive online fundraising ideas. Looking for more ideas to take your fundraising efforts online? Classic online fundraising ideas. Virtual tours for museums.

Ideas 98

Ideas Fundraising Online Raise 98

Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

Similar to the list I shared for nonprofits focusing on education , arts and culture tends to be a very popular issue area for American foundations. The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. Funding Priority: Arts & Culture. Ford Foundation.

Arts 73

Arts Grant Culture Fund 73

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2011

This is the casual attendance data from my first full month as the Executive Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz. This graph is making me change the way I think about what our museum is for and how we should market it. First Fridays are raucous and fabulous events. Events have an urgency to them.

Museum 55

Museum Arts History Audience 55

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

This month, we're thinking about the way we do work in museums. So many wonderful ideas, and I shared a few below. A few offered solid concrete suggestions that take the big idea of "advocacy" and make it concrete, like list wages on hiring requests and refusing to use unpaid interns. I'd ask questions on Twitter before.

Museum 67

Museum Work Culture Team 67

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image.

Culture 140

Culture Game Museum Change 140

Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2013

Imagine seeing a museum exhibition related to this person's work. The answer depends on what kind of museum you are visiting. If we're talking about an an artist working in the context of an art museum, it's likely that the genius' work will be presented with minimal interpretation. What will you experience?

Arts 55

Arts Difference Museum Artist 55

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps! "One

Web 120

Web Social Media Arts Broadcast 120

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

Two weeks ago, Roberto Bedoya asked several arts bloggers, including me, to write a post reflecting on Whiteness and its implications for the arts. I am in no way an expert in issues related to racial and ethnic representation in the arts. I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums.

Museum 55

Museum St. Louis Arts Artist 55

Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2012

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.

Museum 53

Museum Arts History Audience 53

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

It gave me a chance to really think about how we have been opening up our museum and what it means for our community. Museums can be incredible catalysts for social change. We can change that by embracing participatory culture and opening up to the active, social ways that people engage with art, history, science, and ideas today.

Museum 55

Museum Open Participatory Charlotte 55

Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pinterest users are looking for ideas and inspiration. I thought I’d take the examples Joe as a challenge and see how many creative nonprofit Pinterest Board ideas and use-cases I can come up with. Steal these 42 Creative Pinterest Ideas for Nonprofits. Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes.

Ideas 78

Ideas Nonprofit Flickr Museum 78

The Verge

MARCH 11, 2021

NFTs can really be anything digital (such as drawings, music, your brain downloaded and turned into an AI), but a lot of the current excitement is around using the tech to sell digital art. A lot of the conversation is about NFTs as an evolution of fine art collecting , only with digital art. GIF: NyanCat on OpenSea.

Arts 145

Arts Artist Museum Digital 145

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. This is a perfect example of a museum using participation as a design solution. We decided to select 12 individual works of art from the exhibition, reproduce them as 2.5 Reassert the "forum"?

Museum 45

Museum Arts Problem Design 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

  I've written about  how nonprofits can use it , including arts organizations like the Brooklyn Museum as chronicled on Shelley Bernstein's blog. Back in December, the Brooklyn Museum started to experiment with FourSquare running a promotion to get people to check in and get a free membership. 

YouTube 95

YouTube Badge Museum Social Media 95

Museum 2.0

APRIL 24, 2013

Check out this inane AT&T commercial about a woman whose absorption in her smartphone is so great that Facebook updates become substantiated as pieces of art in the museum through which she strolls. It also suggests that for young people, masterpieces in museums are not nearly as interesting as a good friend''s new haircut.

Museum 53

Museum Attention Arts Reflection 53

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Have you ever been to a museum with no permanent exhibits ? On a recent trip to Chicago, I checked out the Museum of Contemporary Art. As I walked around delighting in the weirdness that is contemporary art, I realized how advantageous it can be to not have any permanent exhibits. Use Your Space Creatively.

Arts 38

Arts Culture Program Ideas 38

Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

This post was written by my colleague Nora Grant, Community Programs Coordinator at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Pop Up” has become an international buzz term to describe ephemeral, experimental projects--from pop up restaurants to pop up boutiques--but a “Pop Up Museum” is still somewhat mystifying.

Museum 49

Museum Grant Lesson History 49

Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2014

By Jen Leavitt, Arts and Cultural Consultant. . About a year ago, the Dallas Museum of Art did something truly innovative. The museum’s memberships have tripled in the past year. Dallas Museum of Art has taken the concept of website and email marketing metrics and made them analogue.

Dallas 38

Dallas Museum Arts New York City 38

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

Creative new media managers will expand their ideas about what their nonprofit can write about and experiment with publishing blog posts that share resources and useful advice. Or an arts organization could write about the top 10 museums to visit in a lifetime.

Content 100

Content Ideas Nonprofit Social Media 100

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Every once in a while, I'll get a boring email inviting me to be part of some kind of blog salon on a particular topic, the idea being that all the bloggers who are contacted will write about that topic during the assigned month. This never seems like a good idea. You should go and tell us all about it.

Arts 48

Arts Question Museum North Carolina 48

CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Either way, it’s time to brush up on your peer-to-peer fundraising chops and check out some online fundraising ideas that you can use to attract donors to your nonprofit. Here’s a quick look at 3 of our top online fundraising ideas: 1. of all online donations , so it’s one of the best online fundraising ideas out there.

Fundraising 98

Fundraising Ideas Online Charity 98

Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2024

Lots of nonprofits have membership programs—art organizations, cultural institutions, advocacy groups, parks, clubs, and YMCAs , to name just a few. Would you like to share ideas for new member benefits, activities, or events? For example, if you were a children’s museum, you could offer a ‘night at the museum’ benefit for a premium.

Model 105

Model Nonprofit Museum Survey 105