sgEngage

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Corporate Sponsorships and Partnerships Companies often look for ways to engage with the community and enhance their brand reputation, making corporate sponsorships a win-win for both parties. This model isn’t just for gyms or museums—it can work for advocacy groups, community organizations, and more.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The 2013 Communities of Impact (CoI) pilot program consists of two groups, both focusing on the ways that nonprofits measure, learn from, and share their data. The idea is to create clear, measurable organizational change to participating nonprofits while sharing the learnings and findings with the whole community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0 In essence, it is visible storage for the museum.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 14, 2012

Nature Conservancy. Museum of Modern Art. Communities in Schools. Water.org. Survival International. Jane Goodall Institute. Human Rights Campaign. Goodwill Industries. Animals Asia. American Heart Association. Related Links: Free Webinar on June 6: 10 Common Mistakes Nonprofits Make in Social Media.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 3, 2024

If you’re a museum, zoo, cultural organization, aquarium, garden, or any nonprofit with a physical presence people can visit, you have a great opportunity to raise money and boost your membership sales by marketing your membership as the perfect gift. Updates on conservation projects close to home and invitations to special events.

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Ideas Fundraising Giving Museum 103

Candid

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The Latinx community is often missing from philanthropic discussionsboth about donors and about nonprofit organizations. Latinx community had the equivalent of a $3.6 They cannot meet the needs of our growing community. I cannot emphasize enough that Latinx leaders and fundraisers learn in community. In 2022, the U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

If you are a location-based nonprofit, such as a museum or zoo, then also add your address. For example, the Field Museum tags itself when posting on Instagram, thus also posting to the Field Museum Location Page : That said, if your nonprofit does not yet have a Location Page, you can create one using Facebook Check-in.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Once upon a time, there was a beloved children’s museum in the middle of a thriving city. The brilliant team at the museum set out to find a bigger space and ran a successful capital campaign to expand to a much larger location. Like the set of the movie Night at the Museum , these guests had the whole museum to themselves.

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Gift Museum Raise Arts 104

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. Qwiki :: qwiki.com.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

So, while there are a few global and national options below, most are targeted to their communities. The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Oregon Community Foundation. The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

Last week''s New York Times special section on museums featured a lead article by David Gelles on Wooing a New Generation of Museum Patrons. In the article, David discussed ways that several large art museums are working to attract major donors and board members in their 30s and 40s. David describes himself as a "museum brat."

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Museum Donor Generation Interview 54

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Speakers included Chicagoans like Rayid Ghani , founder of the Data Science for Social Good Summer fellowship; Mark Mathyer of the Museum of Science & Industry; and Lauren Haynes of GiveForward. I asked the members of the Communities of Impact about their takeaways, and Mark Mathyer said, “Transparency rules! I loved that.”.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. And the conference itself resonated with joy, participation, and community. I find North American museums to be risk-averse. Pioneers of communitario museums.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The platform not only provides a wealth of resources but also encourages collaboration and community building among users. The redesign process included workshops to define goals, audience personas, and performance indicators, fitting the Center within the Gates Foundation’s brand and aligning with modern museum trends.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. The winning charity receives 50% of the community donations, the 2nd charity receives 30%, and the 3rd charity receives 20%. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. Daily DoGooder :: thedailydogooder.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities. The winning charity receives 50% of the community donations, the 2nd charity receives 30%, and the 3rd charity receives 20%. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. Daily DoGooder :: thedailydogooder.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

TechSoup is a nonprofit with a clear focus: providing other nonprofits and libraries with technology that empowers them to fulfill their missions and serve their communities. A service of Tech Impact , npCloud is a nonprofit whose mission is to ensure all nonprofits can use cloud-based technology to better serve their communities.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

So, while there are a few global and national options below, most are targeted to their communities. The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Oregon Community Foundation. The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 11, 2013

Brooklyn Museum: Community: bloggers@brooklynmuseum » Moving Toward a Conversation : "For the most part these worked to serve the purpose and we didn’t think much about changing them, but this year we started to wonder if there would be value in upping the game a bit.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2011

Talking to Monica, we found that we have a lot in common in trying to transform how our respective institutions serve and interface with the community. I'm trying to reposition our museum as a cultural hub supporting creative and intellectual community growth. These museums work differently.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Now I’m excited to see how cause communities embrace this emerging network to create value and mission impact. Food can offer great visuals and this can be a great community building exercise. Build a collection of innovative recycling in your community. If you're a museum, zoo, or aquarium: 19.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 18, 2022

But what about arts organizations or museums? What about schools or conservation causes? This question is powerful for a couple of reasons, but mostly why I like to ask it is that it will help me identify what problems could exist in the community were it not for this program. That’s just the nature of the beast.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

Examples of numbered lists include, “Five Reasons Why Conserving Wildlife is Important,” “Ten Simple Ways to Serve Your Local Community,” “Nine Powerful Stats about Domestic Violence in America,” and “Six Reasons Why You Should Read to Your Children.” Or an arts organization could write about the top 10 museums to visit in a lifetime.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2014

I had a vague sense of how conservation fit into their educational missions, but I didn''t realize the extent of the direct advocacy and activism happening every day. In museums (and zoos), we frequently stop the conversation with visitors when it comes to action--especially political action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

What if you could become part of an online community that contributes images of similar topics for you to consume? Why Museum Professionals Should Use Flickr from the Musem 2.0 Community-Powered Campaigns. Indianapolis Museum of Art Visitors sharing photos in a group. March of Dimes Contest (features community voting).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

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. The all-or-nothing funding approach makes many project creators conservative about their ambitions. The museum's page is much simpler.

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Care2

JUNE 22, 2012

When your museum gallery space floods during a freak storm, you know you’re in for some headaches, tough choices, and unexpected fundraising challenges as you deal with major water damage. Don’t hesitate to inform your community about a crisis when it happens, but be sure there’s reason for concern before you ring the bell.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2007

Inventory isn't a museum activity that inspires curiosity in many visitors. This summer, the Austrian Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art ( Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde) is trying to change that. People often talk about non-collecting museums as the museums of the future. You can read more here in German.)

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The conventional wisdom on museum memberships is that they are "one size fits many" programs whose primary benefits are free entrance to the museum and insider access to exhibition openings. But what about all the other people who love your museum? Want to know how the Brooklyn Museum is answering this question?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 9, 2013

And thanks to you for engaging with their posts and with the reruns from the Museum 2.0 read The Northwest London Blues - a gorgeous essay by novelist Zadie Smith about libraries, British politics, and changing perspectives on community space. NAKED, BLEEDING THIEF BREAKS INTO MUSEUM, SPENDS THE NIGHT REARRANGING ITS STORAGE FACILITY.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

Museums have shifted the focus of their fundraising to better address demand from donors who want to know the difference their gift makes, said Ford Bell, president of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). Arts and culture – Giving for impact. Public society benefit – Diversification and impact. Environment – Connecting with donors.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

I spent Saturday in beautiful Monterey, ocean pounding outside the window of a conference room, where about 40 museum folks were pondering a question more elusive than the origin of the waves: can museums change the world? The Congo Gorilla Forest , is a special exhibition produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

James Yasko is writing an article for an upcoming issue of Museum News on museums and Web 2.0. Here's the question: What advice do you have, as one who keeps up with technology as it relates to museums, to a group looking to incorporate Web 2.0 Do you want to become a community nexus? into their repertoire?

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DipJar

JANUARY 28, 2022

Managed by the Pinellas County Parks and Conservation Resources Department, the Gardens are free and open to the public year-round. The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission is to create an environment at the Gardens that allows the community to come together for education, inspiration, and enjoyment.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2007

It's late at night at the Museum Curator smackdown. Museum folks often talk about the time decades ago when museums began to shift from places for objects to places for visitors. My background is in science and children's museums, where it's relatively easy to keep visitors in the foreground. Is the fix in?

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