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What Hocus Pocus Can Teach You About Major Gift Fundraising

Bloomerang

With that in mind, ask yourself these questions: Do you have board members who are giving consistently? . These people are demonstrating that they believe in your mission and programming through their consistent support and loyalty to your organization. . Do you have volunteers who are volunteering multiple times each month? .

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Art Brings People Together: Measuring the Power of Social Bridging

Museum 2.0

When the music video was focused on Mexican culture, the researchers found that the white and Asian participants demonstrated a decrease in prejudice against Latinos, both immediately after the activity and six months later. My biggest question for these social psychologists is this: how do we apply their lessons to our work?

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Month at the Museum, Part 1: A Video Contest that Delivers

Museum 2.0

On October 20, a young woman named Kate will move into Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and live there for a month. This post is not about the Month at the Museum concept or implementation. Instead, this post focuses on a fascinating aspect of Month at the Museum: the video applications. That will come later.

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Engagement, Distraction, and the Puzzle of the Puzzle

Museum 2.0

Two weeks ago, we inaugurated a Creativity Lounge on the third floor of our museum. It's a little living room in a lobby area that invites people to lounge on comfortable chairs, leaf through magazines and books related to art and Santa Cruz history, and generally hang out. Lisa was thrilled that her work was on display at the museum.

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Adventures in Evaluating Participatory Exhibits: An In-Depth Look at the Memory Jar Project

Museum 2.0

A man walks into a museum. Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Two years later, this project is still one of the most fondly remembered participatory experiences at the museum--by visitors and staff. He shares a story.

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Launching the First Wave of the OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network

Museum 2.0

That's the question we've been grappling with as we start the OF/BY/FOR ALL initiative. But it starts with organizations demonstrating eagerness and pledging to take action. The First Wave includes 6 museums, 5 performing arts organizations, 3 public libraries, 3 parks, and 3 community centers.

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Designing Interactives for Adults: Put Down the Dayglow

Museum 2.0

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. And yet in the museum world, we still see interactives as being mostly for kids.