Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals. ” For nonprofits, this shows the value of thoroughly researching your donors’ demographics, history, and motivations before crafting appeals. Personal stories, donor benefits, time sensitivity?

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 17, 2024

Look into your audience’s giving history, previous event attendance, in-kind donation support, or online engagement with your cause to understand how to best reach them. For instance, you’ll want to track email open rates, social media likes, and click-through rates to gauge performance. Previous engagement.

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Game Marketing Change Tips 52

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Bryan Stevenson (BS): It’s important that we have a new consciousness about the problems created by our history. So while it was an extraordinary moment, there is so much about our history that we’ve got to change. We tell a wonderful story about our evolution. DT: Let’s talk about the evolution of EJI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to participate in a brainstorming meeting at a foundation that was developing a strategy for its digital platforms (web, social, mobile, etc). The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. His response: Looking: Observing human experience.

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Forum One

JULY 20, 2022

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) was planning the next installment of their already-successful and well-attended event, “A Seat at the Table.” I was thrilled to share the story alongside the program creators, NMAAHC’s Dierdre Cross and Leslie Walker , at the recent MuseumNext virtual conference.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This number makes it possible for buyers and sellers to track the story behind a car. With a bit of research, consumers like you or me can learn the history of a used vehicle before we buy it, without ever interacting with the car's previous owners.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. While C3 is open for any staff members to participate, they have to make that same time commitment too to be part of the group. I struggle with both these options.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

An app-based scavenger hunt can also facilitate a hybrid event if you have participants who are more comfortable virtually attending. If you live in an area with some morbid history or well-known ghost stories, you can add a few stops on your scavenger hunt related to those creepy tidbits for your more daring donors.

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Ideas Fundraising Movie Contest 98

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

They can contribute their own stories, objects, and creative work to exhibitions. What started as a fun personal project for her will hopefully become part of our permanent history gallery--a space we are trying to make more interactive over the coming years. It happens because people see an opening where there wasn't one before.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

Martus is Benetech's free and open source software package designed for human rights activists to collect stories and data about human rights abuses. And, support from the Open Society Foundation made this event possible! This is a truly unique moment in Martus’ history.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2020

In any case, when I was a kid, growing up on Long Island, the newly opened Hall of Gems and Minerals at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) was like a mysterious dark cave for my sister and I to explore, ever on a hunt for gems. But, I will say, I also love a game with a story. How about you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. This was the very beginning of what we’re calling crowd funding or social fundraising. When I think of story telling, I think of books. We cover an issue from beginning to end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

His opening plenary helped elucidate the absolute value of persistence in achieving our goals. One-plussing” can facilitate the process of taking a good idea and improving upon it. No stories without numbers; no numbers without stories. We live in an amazing moment in history where change is powered by the bottom up.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

This concept has been pioneered by the Internet Archive with its Open Library can lend a digital copy of a book for a period of time as long as it (or a partner library) owns a physical copy of that book which it holds back from being lent to someone else. It was highly controversial. And, the U.S. Senate just ratified the Treaty!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. The result was an 800 page book of narratives, pictures, stories, and much more that will now be part of the library’s collection. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. The museum was founded in 1981, opened in 1989. It lasted for four months.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Giving history . Facebook: With live streaming and story capabilities, Facebook is ideal for spreading the word about your upcoming fundraisers and events. Nonprofits post photos, videos, IGTVs, reels, and stories to show the impact of their mission and advocate for support. . Payment facilitators. Demographics .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

The topic of data is a geeky subject, but exciting because in this era of big data and networks, our collective capacity for problem solving has never been greater. Data is transparent because of social media, data visualization, and open data from governments – all helping us to usher a remarkable period in human history.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2012

This post is the third and final in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. Information on a label and a short video clip informs the buyer about the history behind objects including a tulip, fishing boat, licorice and tea towel.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Short story: we learned a lot. The exhibition evolved after it opened. The facilitation was as chaotic and fragile as a spiderweb. We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. What did we learn?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

You will make history. It isn't until the last group when Starlee sees a young Reagan who decides against the invasion--and against history. And the intention was for the facilitator to point out either during the experience itself or during the debrief that there are a lot of different choices. Lives are at stake.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

A good way to facilitate an in-kind donation campaign virtually is to take advantage of your online tools and make an eCommerce page with a list of needed products. These “Family Meetings” are a great way to not only keep supporters engaged, but also to facilitate them meeting other supporters they don’t know.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). I heard incredible—and often salacious—stories behind hidden gems I’d walked past numerous times. You now have exactly two minutes to concoct the epic love story that brings together the two characters you’ve chosen.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. She told family stories. and then recounted some related fact or history. I avoid them.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. Santa Cruz Collects is based on collections and stories from people throughout our county.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" History Museums OPPORTUNITIES - History museums are in many ways the best-suited for visitor participation. They are frequently about real people's stories. Everyone can have her own personal experience of history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. People are writing their own stories and ideas about our cause rather than us publishing content. Yet, our executives and managers, our internal stakeholders cannot understand the open culture. I began our talk today with my personal nonprofit history.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2009

When I tell the story of how this blog started in 2006, I say it was a personal learning experiment around the question of how Web 2.0 but it's not the whole story. The true story is that I desperately wanted to find a way to engage in discussions with some of my museum heroes. I have a confession to make. And that's true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Take a peek into the hotbed of open prototyping, game jams, and mobile media experiements, then consider how schools might start to build social change into games studies curriculum. Katie Salen Parsons (She co-wrote the book Rules of Play ) We're facilitating a process of games versus making games. Kids can go online an build stories.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

Close the 20 browser windows you currently have open. And so how do you facilitate that discussion about 100% board giving? The other thing that you’re going to do to facilitate that conversation is you’re going to. That’s how we facilitate it. . Board members can serve as door openers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 15, 2024

Others worry it’s a passing fad that could open organizations up to data breaches and eliminate actual jobs. Data-Driven Storytelling : AI can analyze large datasets to identify trends and patterns, helping nonprofits craft compelling stories that highlight their impact. And how, exactly, do nonprofits fit in?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

And they made me appreciate them as superb facilitators as a particular kind of participatory experience: conversation with strangers. This is a great question because it is comfortable and open-ended. Mercedes and Zach aren't just interrogators; they also shared their own reflections and stories throughout our conversation.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

Telling engaging stories about your nonprofit requires more than just broadcasting an overview of your mission and history to the world. This can show you who might be most interested in attending and contributing to your auction or open to expanding their overall support, such as by becoming a monthly donor. Giving habits.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. At that point, we opened three new locations: Sanger , Greenfield , and a new San Francisco workshop in the Excelsior neighborhood because the Mission has changed so dramatically.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

The more data points you have on your donors—from email and street addresses to job titles and company names, giving capacity, philanthropic history, contact preferences, and general interest—the more you will be able to target your asks and create fundraising campaigns that speak directly to them. Set S.M.A.R.T. Goals S.M.A.R.T.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Choose an online fundraising platform Choose the software solutions that will facilitate your online fundraising efforts. This opens up the traditional auction setting from a strictly in-person event to a virtual or hybrid opportunity. ” This will catch recipients’ attention and make them more likely to open your messages.

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Ideas Online Fundraising Tips 81

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

70% say that when they first visit your website they want to know about your mission and history, and 56% want to know about your financial condition. Track your open rates and conversions (do they open the email and then do they actually make a gift) – open rates are important to measure, not just conversions and gifts.

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