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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

4) Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop :: shop.artic.edu. The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop sells unique and beautiful objects from around the world in support of the arts. 6) Field Museum Store :: store.fieldmuseum.org. 18) SFMOMA Museum Store :: museumstore.sfmoma.org. 8) Getty Store :: shop.getty.edu.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . Learn more at the link above. Areas served: Worldwide. The Andrew W.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

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. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. MoFuse :: mofuse.com. Qwiki :: qwiki.com.

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Fun Resource Mobile Social Media 251

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Every day for the past two months, a man has entered the largest gallery in my museum. His project, Is It Necessary? It also complicates the question of what is acceptable in a museum. If an artist can come into a museum and smash stuff, what does that tell visitors? But art museums are coming back from the dead.

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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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Museum Program Student Skills 51

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

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. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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Fun Resource Mobile Social Media 252

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

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. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Noun Project :: thenounproject.com. Noun Project :: thenounproject.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

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. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Noun Project :: thenounproject.com. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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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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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 was taken completely off-guard by the interest in the conference,” says Andrew.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

With YouTube’s resources behind the project and tablets changing the way donors and supporters consume Web content, you’d be wise to spend two minutes reserving and protecting your nonprofit’s Zeen username. Noun Project :: thenounproject.com. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme.

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Free Mobile Nonprofit Social Media 279

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. I find North American museums to be risk-averse. Pioneers of communitario museums.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

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. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Noun Project :: thenounproject.com. MobileCause :: mobilecause.com.

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Web Tools Free Mobile 256

Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. These organizations are currently offering grant and funding opportunities and/or accepting letters of inquiry or project ideas. . Learn more at the link above. Areas served: Worldwide. The Andrew W.

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Arts Grant Culture Fund 73

Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2011

In many cases, once the final project is launched, it's hard to detect the participatory touch. The exhibition or program is of high quality, and from the visitor perspective, it may look like museum as usual. The exhibition includes a large display of objects from the Museum's ethnographic collection selected by small children.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2010

When I was in Taiwan, I heard again and again from museum professionals: "We are very conservative in Taiwanese museums. This post is a photo essay focusing on an area at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts called the Digiark. We're not doing innovative things with visitor participation or Web 2.0. This may be true.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2016

The first nonprofit spotted on my #HagueDayTrip is the Mauritshuis – a #museum that holds a world-famous collection of Dutch and Flemish paintings from the fifteenth to eighteenth century. The first nonprofit spotted on my #HagueDayTrip was the Mauritshuis – home to the best Dutch paintings from the Golden Age. . HagueDayTrip.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In 2024, Forum One partnered with the Smithsonian to launch Kaleidoscope , a cross-museum experience focused on resilience, designed to engage Millennials and Gen Z. Whether you’re building a small website or a complex portal, Gesso offers the versatility to scale. starter kit. Another key benefit is faster time-to-market.

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Accessibility Websites Drupal WordPress 72

Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Kickstarter is a website for creative folks to find funding for their dream projects. Currently, the site supports US-based projects only. A Kickstarter project has three parts: Project description. This is typically a video plus text, although some projects just use a simple image instead of a video. Funding goal.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2014

The whole day was spent in passionate discussion about research projects, international crises, and serious, cost-intensive efforts for zoos and aquaria to take action to improve the fate of elephants and other species at risk. You can track exactly where what projects your money supports. I certainly didn''t.

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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. No small task for a museum exhibition.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Joe also shared some great Pinterest use-cases for nonprofits to experiment with including a Pinboards of fashionable used clothes available in Goodwill stores and beautiful images endangered frogs Conservation International is working to save. Pin your students science fair projects. If you're a museum, zoo, or aquarium: 19.

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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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California San Diego Impact Story 95

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Now, not all of you will get to spend every other week for months chatting with Rob about museums, but I wanted to offer you a slice of how wonderful that can be. This week Rob will share some ideas about museum work. The Activity Level Discussion in Museums: Is a Role Marketplace an Answer? People make museums.

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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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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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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 9, 2008

In spring 2008 the Stanford Innovation Review article, "Praise the Lord, but Dim the Lights," featured the Regeneration Project's Interfaith Power and Light Campaign. The Interfaith Power and Light campaign is, "mobilizing a national religious response to global warming while promoting renewable energy, energy efficiency and conservation."

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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

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

JULY 20, 2007

I read recently about an awesome project at the San Jose Museum of Art in 2001, Collecting Our Thoughts, in which visitors were invited to write the labels for an art exhibition (more another time). But it's a lot of fun, and it could be a great way to construct a personalized takeaway from a museum experience. Then a number.

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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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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. We’d love to share. I am a bisexual cis woman.

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Museum Culture Professional Training 21

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

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. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. MoFuse :: mofuse.com.

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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. But the Gardens aren’t the only draw, it shares a campus with several other organizations: a heritage village, an art museum, the Extension services, as well as the county parks department. .

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Florida Foundation Environment Conservancy 52

Forum One

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

This project demonstrates how digital platforms can transform educational experiences, making learning more accessible and engaging. 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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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. The organization's project on The Last Polar Bear reached more than 20 million people. The Last Polar Bear project reached 26.5 Environmental Impact.

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