Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

With an impressive portfolio that includes collaborations with celebrities like Melissa McCarthy, Jimmy Fallon, Jerry Seinfeld, and recently teaming up with Oscar winner Brendan Fraser for a fundraising collaboration, Brett’s influence extends across the globe. Auctions led by Chris are a celebration of giving to your mission.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 9, 2024

ORG Impact Awards last night at an annual celebration recognizing mission-driven individuals and organizations internationally. The seven winners, selected from more than 1,700 entries from more than 87 countries, were announced at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2011

Many people ( Paul Orselli , Linda Norris , Pete Newcurator ) in the museum field have written about the question of museum "tribes"--based partly on Seth Godin's book , partly on the longstanding fan culture that pervades our lives through sport , celebrity, and shared experience of mass events.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 4, 2023

American Jazz Museum Gold – Cultural Institutions Website Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films, and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room, and Gem Theater.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

In addition to the case studies NTEN has compiled , here are some more examples the Communities of Impact and I have spotted: Children’s museum data informs health policy. In addition to celebrating failure , Beth Kanter invites innovative social media champions to discuss their wins in detail so others can benefit.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world. This work not only included launching a new website but also revitalizing the American Jazz Museum brand as a whole. This project took home six awards this year! Endowed by Dr.

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

Those of you who have watched Simone mesmerize a large audience should see her work with a small crowd of energetic and knowledge seeking children. She soon adored them and vice versa. They were so eager to learn that Simone was soon calling them “The Ducklings.”. I am not sure I have the words to express how we all feel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community. Contemporary Jewish Museum. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Joe Goode Twitter Presentation. Posters: Wall of Reflection and Gratitude.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

People often ask me which museums are my favorite. I visit lots of perfectly nice, perfectly forgettable museums. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 10, 2021

However, it may give nonprofit fundraisers creative ways to work with their celebrities or wealthy donors to create these NFT opportunities. Another fundraiser NFT is looking to sell Non-fungible Doge art with 10% of profits going to Save the Children, with TheGivingBlock.com supporting the transaction (source: [link] ).

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Last week, as part of my museum's year-long Loyalty Lab project , we hosted a workshop for Bay Area museum professionals with special guests Ian Kizu-Blair and Sam Lavigne of the game design firm Situate. Our goal was to help people see the museum as a Friday night habit. When you mastered arcane rules to achieve your goal.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2024

And that community impact is big: Small nonprofits educate and inspire, bridge generational gaps, celebrate cultural identities, and more. The team at EdVenture Children’s Museum is spreading the value of play. Its performances engage the community, inspiring imagination and creating lasting memories.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2012

A woman walks into your museum. They wrote a comment about their experience that got turned into a bird by other visitors in the public sculpture hanging in the middle of the museum. They wrote a comment about their experience that got turned into a bird by other visitors in the public sculpture hanging in the middle of the museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0. I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. And yet many museums are fixated on creators. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. This is a problem for two reasons.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

It's not every day that a visitor buys pizza for everyone in the museum. Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Even though for many of the participants, Ze is a celebrity of epic proportions, he did everything he could to make the event about them and their engagement and not about him.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

SpringFundraising idea Number 2: Celebrate National Cereal Day with a pajama party for good. The Persian New Year coincides with the March equinox and is celebrated around the world (including the 1 million Iranian-Americans living in the United States). Celebrate National BBQ Month in May with a BBQ for your cause.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. And yet many museums are fixated on creators. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. First, exhibits that invite self-expression appeal to a tiny percentage of museum audiences.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2010

These are some thoughts on a very small museum called the Brazos Valley African American Museum. I was fortunate enough to visit it during the Texas Association of Museums conference, and it brought up some reactions and emotions that I wanted to share with you. Jesus” to help them deliver fourteen children.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was exhilarating to see them inspired to create their own meanings in response: lovers whispering together in alcoves, people of all ages writing and drawing on walls and post-its, children painting, everyone sitting rapt before screens. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end. with sharpies.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Seb Chan has a lovely, long interview up at Fresh+New with Helen Whitty about the Powerhouse Museum's new mini-exhibition, the Odditoreum. The Odditoreum is another wrinkle in the study of visitors' understanding and interpretation of authenticity in museums. I enjoyed listening to it (virtually, not at the museum).

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

There are great examples of this kind of thing focusing solely on the participant--for example, the Chicago Children's Museum practice of inviting kids to write postcards home to themselves from the museum. But a lot of participation extends beyond the individual, and we should celebrate that.

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OpenAI

JULY 14, 2022

The Orrigos have worked in top children's hospitals around the country and now virtually meet up with families, bringing children’s ideas to life through personalized cartoons, music videos, and mobility friendly video games. DALL·E gave us a huge amount of inspiration,” Orrigo said.

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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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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2015

The Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library (MBWML) was established in 1958 and named to honor the mother of America's first president. The museum and library preserves the rich history of the Northern Neck through its collections, exhibits, tours, and educational programs. Celebrating a Region Rich with History.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Virtual tours for museums. Your local museums may not be open for admission, but that doesn’t mean you can’t explore all they have to offer. Partner with your local museums to offer virtual tours to your donors, complete with fun, educational facts and some behind-the-scenes action. Gaming fundraiser.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 21, 2009

I’ve often wondered why I’ve never seen a museum with a punch card system. But many large museum membership database systems are dismal at tracking members’ or visitors’ repeat attendance. But many large museum membership database systems are dismal at tracking members’ or visitors’ repeat attendance.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 10, 2021

November 20, 2021 is Family Volunteer Day – a global day of service that celebrates the power of families who work together to support their communities and neighborhoods. For generations, parents and their children have responded to the needs of neighbors, organizations, and their community by rolling up their sleeves and working together.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 17, 2011

The 18 students being recognized at the annual graduation celebration will have completed all requirements during the spring, summer, and fall semesters of 2011. Many of these students worked part and full-time jobs, parented children, volunteered their time, and much more while fulfilling their coursework and requirements. So, sue me!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2017

This is the second installation in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. We started designing ways to make Abbott Square a desirable “first landing place” in downtown—especially for families with children.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

The longer I consult with museums and cultural institutions, the more time I spend peering into people's eyes, wondering: do folks here feel able to innovate? Leaders in innovative organizations "communicate to excess" with staff, especially in encouraging, rewarding, and celebrating innovative practice.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2010

Three examples: In the late 1980s, the Brooklyn Children's Museum created an exhibit called Send a Letter to Snoopy. As Kathy McLean noted in Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions , while staff were afraid that typing on the typewriter would be too hard for some young children, "kids lined up to carefully and slowly type their letters."

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

In January, Blackbaud employees from all ov the world rallied together to celebrate our cultural customers through our #showyourculture initiative. But it was still fun to see how many of my Blackbaud colleagues serve on arts boards, perform at theatres and orchestras, or regularly take their children to their local zoo, museum or aquarium.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 30, 2015

As an Arts and Cultural organization, the Annual Gala is your opportunity to celebrate your organization’s past, your current activities and projects, and what is still to come. What about those annual donors who support you every year, or the mother who signs up her children for camp every summer? Members Only Preview Parties.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2017

What I love most of all is the option to “celebrate a transplant anniversary.” One of my favorite examples of this is a guy who decided to dawn a Stormtrooper outfit and walk across the continent of Australia raising funds for the Montash Children Cancer Hospital. This example is of PKD Foundation ’s P2P Portfolio landing page.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 28, 2016

This month, I'm sharing a few chapters from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. By 2015, the Elks Lodge had become a haven for LGBT parents of young children. Read more online and buy your own copy today. But funny things were afoot at Lodge 824 in Santa Cruz. I didn’t get it.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Some of us have children. But celebrating those little pieces of knowledge and skills as positive can also be helpful to your wellness. I’m glad to be known that way. Like all people, my insides broil and burble with the stresses of life. We all have things, as my boss said recently. We all have parents and friends.

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