Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Not because of the unusually big grants, but because most of them are members of our TechSoup family. A panel of community advisors reviewed the submissions, and chose 25 finalists – all of whom won significant grants. TechSoup Members Among the Top 10 Finalists ($250,000 to $500,000 Grant Winners). 500,000 Grant Winners.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Diane is both visionary and no-nonsense about deconstructing the barriers that many low-income and non-white teenagers and families face when entering a museum. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. Louis homeless shelters to introduce them to the local museums. Why can't new visitors do the same?

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Whole Whale

MARCH 10, 2021

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] ). Token holders can be granted exclusive perks, given additional airdrops, and rewarded for using NFTs. Embed from Getty Images.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. Every non-spammer editor who signed up was granted full access to change and comment on the content.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

The site doesn't link them with foundations or grant applications; instead, it makes it easy to reach out to regular people for donations of as little as $1. 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.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

The mom has a job at a museum cafe, the older kids are in school, and the youngest attends a wonderful daycare center we are so fortunate to partner with. Yea us we got the $150,000 HUD grant! . Because of supporters like you, we were able to provide a stable home for them and their three children during a financially difficult time.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2020

Emergency Economic Injury Grants. Community Services Block Grant – $1 Billion. Child Care Development Block Grant – $3.5 Children and Family Services Programs – $1.9 Institute of Museum and Library Services – $50 Million. Community Development Block Grant – $5 Billion. Head Start – $750 Million.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2007

This week, we consider Chapter 11 of Elaine Gurian's Civilizing the Museum , "Function Follows Form: How mixed-used spaces in museums build community," but first, a short and relevant note about my writing process. Museums are naturally tuned to some of these but not all. short streets and frequent opportunities to turn corners.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They take care of your facility, give tours of your museum, welcome attendees to your annual gala, and pass out medals at fundraising races. Publicize volunteer grant opportunities. Through volunteer grant programs, companies provide grants to organizations where employees volunteer on a regular basis.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

It’s the same one that, years later, she would teach to her seven children. Mexico’s law, which came into effect last month, grants Indigenous and Afro-Mexican communities the authority to grant temporary licenses to companies to use their designs and get paid for it. Cultural works are continually being recreated and revised.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2013

It doesn’t matter if your mission is educating your members about the artwork in your museum, providing scholarships for children to attend your school, or buying warm coats for homeless families; when you spend money on those activities, you’re justifying your own existence by improving your community.

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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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DipJar

JANUARY 28, 2022

Since the 1980s, the land grant university extension for Pinellas County has been on the site of the Gardens. But the Gardens aren’t the only draw, it shares a campus with several other organizations: a heritage village, an art museum, the Extension services, as well as the county parks department. .

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. Support Children’s Colorado Foundation. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. Support Children’s Colorado Foundation. Pacific Science Center. Silver – Science Website.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Given that they were the children of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, they didn’t have the income to support significant giving. We also work with animal shelters and animal-related causes, as well as with the arts, whether it’s museums, education, or other types of art institutions.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Exhibit labels in science centers ask more questions than any other kinds of museums, and yet the questions are often awful--teacherly, overly rhetorical, and totally meaningless. asked by a cop or mother, garners the full attention of asker and askee alike, museum questions like "what is nanotechnology?,"

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This year, the American Association of Museums annual conference was in Los Angeles (my hometown). I hosted two sessions, one on design for participation and the other on mission-driven museum technology development. He started with museums as a "place to go"--to see things, consume experiences. In this case, a heck of a lot.

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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? Next Tuesday, we'll experiment with an "open thread" post, in which you are encouraged to share your own experiences (positive and negative) with innovation in organizations.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Learn how Summit Assistance Dogs and Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation ran massively successful virtual fundraising events : Tip: Schedule a demo with our team on how you can quickly start a campaign site for your virtual fundraising event. The Brooklyn Museum let a local artist take over their Instagram for a day.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

Megan Smith incisively covered the sad state of staffing in the museum industry pre-coronavirus, as well as her fears for staffers post-coronavirus, in a previous post for Museum 2.0 , so I won’t belabor this one. It’s been informative to see the range of museum responses to a world in which people cannot physically visit our campuses.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

It doesn’t matter if your mission is educating your members about the artwork in your museum, providing scholarships for children to attend your school, or buying warm coats for homeless families; when you spend money on those activities, you’re justifying your own existence by improving your community.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Public charities also include a wide range of educational organizations (afterschool programs, universities), arts and culture organizations (museums, theater groups), and health organizations (clinics, nonprofit hospitals). At the highest level, theyre supported by three types of revenuegovernment grants, contributions, and earned income.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

It was sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation, Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Grants for the Arts, and the Koret Foundation. 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.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Are museum visitors "customers?" How many museum and library entrances are hard to find, dark, and require opening a heavy door? In a museum or library, this translates well to being able to see across to other exhibits or areas (especially when visiting in a family group that frequently splits and recombines). Some swear by it.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Pacific Science Center (PacSci) is an independent, non-profit museum in Seattle with a mission to ignite curiosity and fuel passion for discovery, experimentation, and science for people of all ages and backgrounds. Pacific Science Center. GOLD – Science Website. NMAAHC: A Seat at the Table Event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Nina Simon a proud member of Gen Y, writes the very awesome Museum 2.0 blog, but you don't have to be a museum person to get a lot of value from it. Also, Maddie Grant. " Learning to Give goal is to educate children about the independent sector and philanthropy. Nonprofit Programs and Social Actions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

The children are ages 6-16, and they're making huge strides by leading a national movement against child rape in Zimbabwe. It was about woman entrepreneurs who were sending their children to school with the money they earned, even though they were living themselves on a dollar a day. And, their weapon is poetry.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

These grantmakers account for about 17% of all grant dollars awarded to Nebraska-based nonprofits. In addition, Buffett announced in June that he would leave his fortune to his children, who will have 10 years to give the money away. And grantmakers in Nebraska allocate more than 60% of their grant dollars to local organizations.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2021

It adds $1.25B to the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program and allows performing arts organizations to apply for both a PPP loan and a Shuttered Venue Operators grant. The package also includes $15B in new funding for targeted Economic Injury Disaster Loan grants providing flexible grant relief.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 11, 2025

Because we choose not to be under the government’s thumb by acquiescing to the 501(c)(3) status game, we are generally not permitted to apply for grant funding. Pat from Children’s Flight of Hope Engaging Gen Z and Millennials and offering fair wages. Christy Crosser from Estes Park Museum Friends & Foundation, Inc.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The study specifically excluded institutions without employees, museums, religious institutions, hospitals, and membership organizations to focus on traditional higher education institutions like Harvard, NYU, Johns Hopkins, Duke, and others. people, representing a significant economic impact. million in fundraising expenses.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 14, 2018

Trump and three of his children: Donald J. The timing, amounts, and recipients of grants were allegedly dictated by campaign staff, including Corey Lewandowski, then-campaign manager, in violation of state and federal law. A lawsuit seeking $2.8 million in restitution plus additional penalties was filed against the Donald J.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 14, 2018

Trump and three of his children: Donald J. The timing, amounts, and recipients of grants were allegedly dictated by campaign staff, including Corey Lewandowski, then-campaign manager, in violation of state and federal law. A lawsuit seeking $2.8 million in restitution plus additional penalties was filed against the Donald J.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 14, 2018

Trump and three of his children: Donald J. The timing, amounts, and recipients of grants were allegedly dictated by campaign staff, including Corey Lewandowski, then-campaign manager, in violation of state and federal law. A lawsuit seeking $2.8 million in restitution plus additional penalties was filed against the Donald J.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 23, 2025

The Institute of Museum and Library Services was also on the list. Congress created the IMLS in 1996 through the Museum and Library Services Act. The law merged the Institute of Museum Services, which was established in 1976, with the Library Programs Office of the Department of Education. The Conversation U.S.

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