Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. 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.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Areas served: Worldwide. The Shubert Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

What started as a happy hour (“as all good things begin,” says Andrew) to share ideas and commiserate with fellow data-minded souls at local nonprofits has grown into a full-fledged network that came together for its first annual conference earlier this month. I was taken completely off-guard by the interest in the conference,” says Andrew.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Local Impact Map :: datamarket.azure.com/application. Microsoft Local Impact Map is a low-cost visual mapping tool ideal for nonprofits that have multiple chapters or programs. Whether you want to display your work on a local, national, or global map, this is a visually-compelling new way to tell your nonprofit’s story.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet. Local Impact Map :: datamarket.azure.com/application.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

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. Oregon Zoo Silver – Cultural Institutions Portland’s Oregon Zoo is a leader in wildlife conservation and education, attracting nearly 1.5

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The Storytelling Non-profit

APRIL 18, 2022

But what about arts organizations or museums? What about schools or conservation causes? For example, let’s say you’re a local children’s theater company. It’s true – conflict is less recognizable and lower stakes for certain causes. That’s just the nature of the beast.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2011

Let's say you spend a year working with a group of teens to co-create an exhibition, or you invite members and local artists to help redesign the lobby. The exhibition or program is of high quality, and from the visitor perspective, it may look like museum as usual. Community processes are both exciting and time-consuming.

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Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Areas served: Worldwide. The Shubert Foundation.

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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. For instance, you might partner with a local restaurant to auction off a free four-course meal or a wine shop to offer bidders a wine and charcuterie basket.

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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. He personally got to know the residents, including the ranchers, miners, and other locals who initially opposed the program. “We My uncle, Arthur Risser , was another. January 2, 2009.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2014

Best Use of Interactive Technology – The Tenement Museum – The Tenement Museum needed a system that could collect visitor information for future follow up while making the booking process easy and seamless, both online and onsite. Read the case study. Read the case study.

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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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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Best Use of Interactive Technology – The Tenement Museum – The Tenement Museum needed a system that could collect visitor information for future follow up while making the booking process easy and seamless, both online and onsite. Read the case study. Read the case study.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. But effort and efficacy are not the same.

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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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Allegiance Group

MARCH 6, 2025

Will giving art museum members a keychain and a 10% discount at the gift shop turn all your fundraising into a cold transaction? When you buy season tickets to the symphony or become a member at your local zoo, youre likely supporting a nonprofit organization. Is it wrong to offer membership perks during your pledge drive?

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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. Located just minutes from several beaches, the Gardens are a popular spot for local residents and visitors alike. . Even in the off-season, nearly 1,000 come to spend time in the Gardens.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

For instance, let’s say your organization raises funding to support local wildlife and ecosystems. 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. Check the list below to ensure your eligibility. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. 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.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2007

A local fire has devastated 200 local homes. What does your museum have to say about it? What do visitors expect of museums, and what do museums expect of themselves, when it comes to timeliness? In the public eye, museums aren't compared to timeless entities like the ocean. Pluto just got demoted.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Many of our local PBS stations have little experience with Web Analytics. Cindy Olnick, Director of Communications, Los Angeles Conservancy). “What I love about the Analysis Exchange is the learning is reciprocal. The AE project was very enlightening for me as well.

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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. For instance, you might partner with a local restaurant to auction off a free meal. Art & History Museums Maitland is planning a virtual 3-day online art auction for summer 2021.

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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. Princes of Surf is about the young Hawaiian princes who brought surfing to the Americas 130 years ago--relevant because they did it in Santa Cruz, with boards shaped from local wood, on waves I bike by every week. Killer content.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Our friends and family stepped up and supported this local branch of the Special Olympics, thousands of miles away from their home towns, securing donation dollars for the nonprofit that they would have never seen otherwise. That’s the beauty of crowd fundraising. But crowd fundraising isn’t just for runs, walks, or polar plunges anymore.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 18, 2016

From local shelters all the way to national and international efforts, there are animal rights organizations of all shapes and sizes that benefit from text-to-give technology and mobile fundraising techniques in general. #4. Animal rights. Environmental awareness. More and more, these donations are coming in through mobile devices.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

Yesterday, the local paper in Santa Cruz published a great article about my new book, The Art of Relevance. No museum puts up a label that says: “Our last curator thought this painting was lousy and kept it in storage. We paid a small fortune to have them conserved and shipped here for exhibition. I loved the piece.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Boulder Food Rescue works with local businesses to collect surplus food that would usually be thrown away and distribute that food to people who need it. Braided River is a Seattle-based publishing organization that is committed to inspiring support for critical conservation efforts. We had many excellent submissions to the contest.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2014

Claim your Google+ Local Page. ? Follow and study the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) , Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) , Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) , Conservation International , and the Environmental Defense Fund. Merge your YouTube channel with your Google+ Page. ? Pinterest. ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Claim your Google+ Local Page. Follow and study the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) , Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) , Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) , Conservation International , and the Environmental Defense Fund. . □ Merge your YouTube channel with your Google+ Page. Experiment with Google+ Events.

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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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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 28, 2025

All four founding members of Asco became some of the most notable Chicano artists, later exhibiting works in revered museums around the United States. But in their early days, the group was denied access to the notable galleries and museums. In the documentary, Gamboa claims that a local news station ran the piece as an actual story.

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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. It was at the fair.

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The Verge

JANUARY 12, 2021

While US Fish and Wildlife officials told the Chronicle that they “[could not] comment on a current, ongoing investigation”, they’re asking anyone who may have information about who did this to reach out to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 22, 2025

The seeds of Boom Supersonic The success of the XB-1 is the culmination of a not-so-noisy trip that started when Blake Scholl, the founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, visited the Museum of Flight in Seattle in his 20s and got into the Concorde for the first time. Temperature and wind gradients affect the local speed of sound.

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