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Celebrate, Educate, and Fundraise: Planning Winning AAPI Heritage Month Events

The Modern Nonprofit

The events can also effectively raise funds through ticket sales, sponsorships, and donations for organizations that provide services and advocacy to advance AAPIs. Others may prefer moderated discussions or interviews. Or present grants and donations to causes they support. Share stories that inspire giving.

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Developing a Participatory, Provocative History Project at a Small Museum in Minnesota: Interview with Mary Warner

Museum 2.0

Earlier this year, I was fascinated to read the account of a participatory project at the Morrison County Historical Society in Minnesota, in which community members were invited to write essays about “what’s it like” to have various life experiences in the County. Really, it was about which stories we had good objects for.

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12 Ways We Made our Santa Cruz Collects Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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The Secret To Social Media Engagement: Kiss A Squirrel!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Conversation starters are questions, visuals, anecdotes, stories, or other snippets of content that you share on social channels to ignite engagement. This list should be with you when you are planning out your content and engagement for your social media channels. Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

So we tend to have three legs of support: municipal, grants/donations, and fee for service (usually with the school district). For example, the Exploratorium is an extraordinarily participatory museum, but it''s not nearly as participatory as a Community Science Workshop. In fact, we have almost no individual donors.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

Through Spot.Us, the public can commission journalists to do investigations on important, and perhaps overlooked stories. On July 9, 2009 I interviewed David about Spot.us Below is an edited transcript of the interview which you also can listen to online , or subscribe to via iTunes. success stories?

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5 Games Supporting Nonprofits’s Missions, from Low-Tech to High-Tech

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

government and encouraging participatory democracy. Half the Sky Movement: The Game , a Facebook adventure game that raised awareness and donations for girls and women’s causes worldwide, has transformed 1.3 ” Senate Immersion Module. Kennedy (EMK) Institute to support it in educating the public about U.S.

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