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New on SSIR: A New Tool for Digital Storytelling

Amy Sample Ward

Encourage volunteers, program officers, donors, or other community members to become social reporters and document events in their neighborhood. Museums, tour groups, and history societies could all make use of Historypin for sharing tours and routes, complete with images and stories. Do you have a hyperlocal online network/space?

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30 Virtual and Hybrid Event Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Anything people might want to learn, from hands-on activities such as painting to more classroom-type settings such as Spanish lessons. For added suspense, you may send out a mystery box with a variety of beverages to sample. 5) Online classes. Virtual education is a great tool and can be used to teach a wide range of skills. 23) Bingo.

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Come Work With Us at MAH as School Programs Coordinator

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But this job is really important to the future of our museum, and I’m hoping that you or someone you know might be a great fit for it. We are hiring for a School Programs Coordinator to wrangle the 3,500+ students and their teachers who come to the museum every year for a tour and hands-on experience in our art and history exhibitions.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

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Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end. with sharpies.

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The Great Good Place Book Discussion Part 2: Small Rural Museums as Third Places

Museum 2.0

This guest post was written by Rebecca Lawrence, Museum Educator, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsylvania. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 The Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center (SLHC) is a small museum located in Pennsburg, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

Museum 2.0

A typical Chicago Underground Library (CUL) volunteer meeting starts something like this: New volunteers arrive for orientation at 6:30pm, some a little late because they got lost in the 100-year old parish house where we occupy the lobby of a fringe theater company on the second floor.

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Your Nonprofit’s Success Starts with Getting Discovered | 3 Steps You Need to Take

Connection Cafe

Who is visiting your museum? Who is volunteering? Then going to a classroom to do a presentation might get kids excited about your organization. If you’re a museum, blog about your exhibits, the excited kids from a recent field trip, or what a sister museum is doing. What are the demographics in your database?