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22 Online Gift Stores That Benefit Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Field Museum Online Store. The Field Museum is an educational institution concerned with the diversity and relationships in nature and among cultures. Paul Getty Museum Store. Metropolitan Museum of Art Store. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s largest and finest art museums.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

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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Musicians are hooking up synthesizers to plants for new sonic possibilities

The Verge

When Stan Smeets posted a video titled “I made a synthesizer that plays plant-based music using microscopes and sensors” to a synthesizer Reddit group, the users thought it was funny that he had stumbled into a meme. The results range from scatterings of notes in a strange tempo to fully composed ambient music. Pitch perfect plants.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Bloomerang

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. The Highland Street Foundation is committed to addressing the most pressing needs and concerns for children and families in Massachusetts and California. Highland Street Foundation.

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Should Your Nonprofit Launch a Summer Camp?

NonProfit Hub

If you run a nonprofit museum, advocacy group, animal shelter or environmental protection organization, starting a summer camp could be a logical next step toward rewarding your members, donors and supporters. Almost any nonprofit that runs programs geared toward children could expand upon them in the form of a summer camp.

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Teenagers and Social Participation

Museum 2.0

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. During the ensuing discussion, one woman asked, "Which audiences are least interested in social participation in museums?" So what's a museum to do--especially one that is funded to encourage youth and teen participation?

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Kickstarter: Funding Creativity in a New (Old) Way

Museum 2.0

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. game and the Neversink Valley Museum's capital campaign launch materials. The museum's page is much simpler.

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