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40+ Unforgettable Live Auction Items that Sell Well

Bloomerang

Choose intriguing warm-weather locations like Belize, Jamaica, Australia, or Greece. For example, you could create a bundle with art, history, and science museum passes. All-inclusive resorts offer lodging, food and drink, entertainment, and recreational activities all on-site.

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How to Find Your Next Great Board Member

Connection Cafe

For example, if you have a history of terrific special events, but your organization’s newly crafted and inspirational vision calls for more transformational fundraising, you’ll likely need to shift focus. Know where else they have served, their giving history, and the extent of their network. Either way, you win. Research prospects.

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Who Am I? Internal vs. External Role-Playing in Museums

Museum 2.0

By contrast, in Titanic , the power of the experience comes from connecting to a specific person from history, which gives visitors a concrete, personal connection to a historic event. Internal profiles let visitors get deeper into their own skin, whereas external profiles let them try on someone else's.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. History remembers Queen Anna Nzinga as one of the great female rulers of Africa.

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Diversify Your Year-End Campaigns: How To Be Mindful And Inclusive Of Cultural Traditions

Bloomerang

However, the importance of his day has been lost in American history. ’ Ukraine, Georgia, Serbia, Greece, Cyprus, Montenegro, Russia, Moldova, The Republic of North Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Belarus are all Orthodox countries and all of them have healthy communities in the US. Other parts of the world believe St.

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Ancient Greece 2.0: Arts Participation before the Industrial Age

Museum 2.0

In In and Out of the Dark [pdf] , Colby College professor Lynne Conner argues convincingly that the current refinement of the Western fine arts experience is an aberrant blip in a long history of participatory audience engagement. We are honoring the deep history of serious arts engagement by pursuing participatory approaches.

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