sgEngage

JULY 22, 2024

The last few years have been exceptionally hard for arts and cultural nonprofits. Just as organizations started to see patrons coming back to museums, live performances, and art classes, this year saw state governments from Florida to California severely reduce financial support for arts and cultural organizations.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 18, 2022

For a lot of non-profit causes, the conflict is clear, high-stakes, and very motivating. In this article, we’re going to re-visit the importance of conflict in non-profit stories and discuss how to frame your conflict so that it’s motivating to your audience. But what about arts organizations or museums?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. Nina Simon from the Museums and Web2.0

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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.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Is your museum running on interns? It is a strong, museum-focused complement to an excellent three-parter on Createquity about the ethics and future of unpaid arts internships. I got my first real job in a museum (at the Guggenheim) after a life-changing internship. It''s probably a path you had to navigate too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2005

RLG is a not-for-profit organization of over 150 research libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural memory institutions. On the Museums/Computers list, there has been a vigorous discussion about folksonomies and G?? On the Museums/Computers list, there has been a vigorous discussion about folksonomies and G??nter

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

I feel strongly that there are huge issues with racial and ethnic diversity in museums and arts organizations that deserve a million more posts. One was a conference on pushing our practice in art museums. In library- and museum-land, the participants were 80-90% women. That's why I wrote this.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We are excited to share that the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal , NYU’s Congressional District Health Dashboard , and March of Dimes have been named Anthem Awards finalists. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This week, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released a new paper by Holly Sidford called Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change. The majority of foundation funding for the arts goes to large, established organizations that present work that is based in the European canon for a primarily white, upper-income audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Participants may improve their painting abilities, try their hand at some knitting, or do whatever other sort of art they like without having to leave the comfort of their own home. Best yet, you could even offer some of the art produced in the class as auction items during your next fundraiser. 7) Shopping. 13) Scavenger hunts.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 28, 2025

The benefits vary a discount to your local art museum, a branded T-shirt, a gift card. Follow the For-Profits For-profits are conditioning consumers beyond just subscription models, and nonprofits should follow their lead. A vacationing family who signs up for your museum membership likely only wants the discount.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Musical Instrument Museum. I had the pleasure of serving as Principal for a Day at Arizona School for the Arts (ASA) on October 27 via a program put on by HandsOn Greater Phoenix. Whether these students go on to pursue careers in the arts or not, they will be lifelong audience members, advocates, and champions of the arts.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2020

C ompanies with three or more digitally savvy directors had 17-percent higher profit margins, 38-percent higher revenue growth, 34-percent higher return on assets and 34-percent higher market cap. I recently discussed what it means to be a “museopreneur” in a feature article published by American Alliance of Museums.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Today a company focused on experiences — museum visits, skydiving, local cooking classes and more — is announcing a round of growth funding on the back of seeing its own business bounce back. Travel and tourism are slowly starting to move again in the wake of COVID-19 crashing over the world and sending us to shelter in place.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 10, 2021

There are many exchanges to find NFTs and each one tends to specialize in different types of art or styles. What’s more, artists will continue to get a percentage of the future sales of that NFT art into the future. The NFT is the result of a partnership with the Muhammad Ali Center, a museum dedicated to Ali’s life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

One of the first schools was launched in Bangalore, catering to working parents in its technology industry who are seeking high quality pre-school. The profits from the daycare support the school. At the Sujaya School, I visited a second grade art class. They were busy drawing planets or rockets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

The runner up winner was Maureen Dowd from Open Museum What I propose to do with the library you are offering is read it, try it, share it, and let you know how it works for me, my colleagues and the people we influence. As you know, it takes more than access to create a successful social media network.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

TCG is the industry association for non-profit theaters, the way AAM is for museums. Given TCG''s multi-year Audience (R)evolution initiative, I took the opportunity to write a new talk about what revolution has looked like at our small museum in Santa Cruz. We heard again and again that the museum was cold and uncomfortable.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

His foundation supports a private museum that is rarely open to the public. While there are many ways for museums to reach new audiences, when it comes to specialized knowledge, it's often a question of reaching the niche who care deeply about German watches from 1822 or the evolutionary shift in raccoon striping over time.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2014

As always, I read this article through the lens of our arts and cultural customers. How can these themes make a positive impact on the local museum or symphony? As a result, I put together my perspective on this game changing technology for arts and cultural organizations. Are the same trends applicable? If not, it needs to be.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

From supporting arts and sciences to public health and community investment, foundations have been instrumental grantmakers in public life for decades. Private grantmaking foundations are usually, but not always, funded from principally one source, such as a for-profit business.

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

Here are a few photos of a few of the myriad of fun activities we had from the Welcome Banner to Indy to visiting the Art Museum to Symphony on the Prairie at Conner Prairie to celebrating a birthday! MSC provided a widely used family of database products for the non-profit sector called Fund-Master.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. Want some waffles with your art? Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

Museums and nonprofits can also reap huge benefits from employing artificial intelligence, particularly in their membership and development departments. Nonprofits and museums depend on dedicated, but oftentimes limited, development staff to sift through countless prospects to determine which ones are priority.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

We created and ran the web site for the Liberal Arts College in an atmosphere which, upon reflection is a lot like Linden Lab. When I graduated in 2003, I moved out here to California and worked with the San Jose Museum of Art before getting a job with Linden Labs. I learned a lot from San Jose Art Museum.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2012

Private grantmaking foundations are usually, but not always, funded from principally one source, such as a for-profit business. Most often, private operating foundations are organizations which operate museums and theater/arts centers, although any other charitable activity conducted directly by the foundation can qualify.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or produce an art exhibit with elementary school students. But then I started finding more humble projects related to broader issues, and I began to see Kickstarter as a potentially fascinating space for museums and cultural institutions. Why should cultural and arts organizations care about Kickstarter? How would you fund it?

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

a democratically structured non-profit which issues the local currency; the Schumacher Center (which retains its affiliation with BerkShares, Inc.); While we may not think of it when swiping a credit card in-store, all those processing fees add up, bolstering the profits of big financial corporations.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Due to a lack of major upfront expenses, fundraising online is one of the most profitable ways to raise money for your organization. More involved in-person fundraisers or campaigns that require lots of resources can eat into your profit margins. Virtual tours for museums. Student art show.

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DipJar

AUGUST 9, 2022

They’re so much more than book museums. The library’s physical art gallery was converted to a digital one that continued to present the work of area artists. The Curtis Friends is a non-profit organization whose mission is to enhance the library’s role as a valued community resource through advocacy, fundraising, and volunteerism.

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

They’re assets, like Pokémon cards and also like actually awesome digital art, that can be owned and traded—only they’re all digital. Ten percent of the profits from the sales go to the organization, making it a partner in this auction rather than just the once-off end recipient. . This, I think, is what buying NFTs are like.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2010

In addition to being the co-Founder of the Global Center, he is also the Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. He is also the co-Founder of the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market. Before coming to Santa Fe, he was the Director of Aid to Artisans , an international artisan enterprise development NGO.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 14, 2007

I wanted to share with you the blurb about him from the New Mexico Business Weekly : Tom Aageson, Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation , has been named the Allen Stamm Humanitarian of the Year by the United Way of Santa Fe County. Tom Aageson New Mexico Santa Fe art humanitarian

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2012

Private grantmaking foundations are usually, but not always, funded from principally one source, such as a for-profit business. Most often, private operating foundations are organizations that operate museums, theaters, or arts centers, although any other charitable activity conducted directly by the foundation can qualify.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2014

Tweets about #marketing, #nonprofit and #nptech,#arts and #museum best practices. By Nancy Palo : A fundraising strategy consultant who is passionate about helping non-profits raise money to further their missions and make the world a better place. I help non-profits w/ tech., By Ryan King : Senior Marketing Manager.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

In addition to being the co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship, he is the Executive Director of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. He is also the co-founder of the International Folk Art Market. That business really caught on, and it produced support for the museum. They're really visionaries.

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