Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Alexander Haas is an Atlanta-based fundraising consulting firm that serves clients nationwide, including those in higher education, museums, schools, performing arts, human services, healthcare, and religious organizations. Alexander Haas. Website: [link]. The Munshine Group. Website: [link]. Focus Fundraising. Website: [link].

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Whole Whale

MAY 20, 2021

Alexander Haas is an Atlanta-based fundraising consulting firm that serves clients nationwide, including those in higher education, museums, schools, performing arts, human services, healthcare, and religious organizations. Alexander Haas. Website: [link]. The Munshine Group. Website: [link]. Focus Fundraising. Website: [link].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. 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. Flipboard :: flipboard.com. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

and with it flocks of museum studies / education / exhibit planning graduate interns. I’m always curious when I meet these folks, who are about my age, choosing a different entry path into the museum world. The value proposition of museum grad programs is cloudy in my mind. Sure, it’s great to learn museum theory and history.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Ideally, it is full of high-quality and relevant content about your nonprofit’s history, current campaigns, and future goals. If a supporter researches volunteer opportunities for a wildlife conservation organization, they will be directed to a relevant landing page on your site. Public Museums. Website Engagement. Healthcare.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 24, 2024

Alexander Haas Website: [link] Alexander Haas is an Atlanta-based fundraising consulting firm that serves clients nationwide, including those in higher education, museums, schools, performing arts, human services, healthcare, and religious organizations.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

Museums have been grappling with this question for years ( here's a 2007 roundup of such projects ), most aggressively in zoos and natural history museums where staff hope to inspire conservation and in history/concept museums that focus on civic engagement and activism.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2011

I'm trying to reposition our museum as a cultural hub supporting creative and intellectual community growth. Our conversation made me reflect on the museums that most inspire me from a public service perspective--institutions with missions that stretch far beyond their walls. These museums work differently.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

If you need to budget more conservatively, recruit more volunteers to support the event or gather more in-kind donations rather than purchasing auction items yourself. Art & History Museums Maitland planned a virtual three-day online art auction. You might even create a dedicated event hashtag for them to use.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. 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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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

Relative to other museums, I think we spend less time producing an "onstage" experience and more time collaborating with community organizations behind the scenes to empower them to produce. Our museum is growing, and I'm always weighing different ways to expand our impact. I feel great about this approach.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

This summer, we opened two exhibitions at my museum that are highly relevant to local culture. Before the Princes of Surf exhibition, these boards rested deep in the collection storage of the Bishop Museum in Hawaii. Grown men fighting for seats at lectures about the history of the boards. Killer content. Muscle and bone.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

If people on the street are talking about X, the museum should be talking about X too. I used to work at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. Our mandate was to be the museum of Silicon Valley--not of its material history, but its pulse of innovation. Other times, grounded in the museum's collection.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. 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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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

If you find yourself needing to budget more conservatively, using volunteers instead of staff or receiving auction items as donations is a good idea. Art & History Museums Maitland is planning a virtual 3-day online art auction for summer 2021.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. 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. DollarPerMonth.org :: dollarpermonth.org.

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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 Start conservative and build from there. into their repertoire?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. 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. DollarPerMonth.org :: dollarpermonth.org.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 9, 2008

The Interfaith Power and Light campaign is, "mobilizing a national religious response to global warming while promoting renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation." You can download a copy of the article on the Regeneration Project site.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

An ornithologist and manager at the San Diego Zoo, he was involved in the conservation effort for many years and was a proponent of captive breeding. On our last trip to San Diego, my daughter and I took a trip to the Natural History Museum. 2006. ^ [2] "Obituary: Art Risser; zoo manager played key role in conservation programs."

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 31, 2009

In 2006, John Falk and Beverly Sheppard, seasoned museum researchers and practitioners, released a co-authored book entitled Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. This is a pretty powerful and provocative book—you talk about rethinking the whole business of museums.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. 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

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for telling your nonprofit’s history on the Social Web, you can add Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous, WordPress, and Instagram. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Timekiwi :: timekiwi.com. TechSoup.org :: techsoup.org.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2007

In the film, Robert Penguin, the world’s leading expert on biodiversity, is contacted to investigate the murder of a polar bear at the Natural History Museum. He works with Sophie Minnow to discover the ancient, “Priory of Species” and unravel ”The Greatest Lie Ever Told.”

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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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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. what is the value of the exhibition experience to non-participants, that is, regular museum visitors?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

As a side note, my positive feelings about the onsite Zealandia experience were somewhat undermined by their branding as a "conservation attraction" on their website and on billboards around Wellington.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Are you passionate about conservation and environmental causes? Gabriela Mistral.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Best Looking Emails: This is a tie between the Museum of Modern Art and charity: water for showing that you can still design beautiful emails despite all the constraints. The Nature Conservancy gets the Best Text Message Award for the second year in a row. Be part of our heroic history. JUST RELEASED: Triple MATCH!

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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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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

Traditional exhibition design, in which the museum has a specific story or message to tell, doesn't easily accommodate visitor co-creation. This realization--that a single museum voice was not the best way to tell a particular story--formed the basis for MN150 , the exhibition explored in this post. So we got down to roughly 400.

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