Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

The Saskatoon Public Library opened its doors to these evacuees, and staff members stepped up their efforts to help the evacuees communicate with their family and friends. "This is what a public library is all about," said Carol Cooler, the director of libraries and CEO at the Saskatoon Public Library in a press statement.

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Disaster Library Support Hurricane 36

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

A fundraising email is not the right place to thank Board members, reflect on events that already happened, spotlight a wonderful volunteer, or highlight a major donor. For example: “Many teen girls struggle with their self-esteem thanks to Instagram and Snapchat. These jobs can be accessed via public transportation.

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Results email Fundraising Story 122

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Have you interacted with your local government, or spoken to your peers about their programs? Do you have a pulse on what the most pressing local needs are at this moment? What about local nonprofits or community foundations; do you know who to reach out to if needed? Where does your organization sit in your community?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I'm fascinated by these places because of their ability to attract diverse audiences to idiosyncratic experiences, and I'm curious how they stay afloat. One of my favorite places for a long time now. I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. Skill-sharing free schools.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

When evaluating your community, some of the most influential items to consider regarding social networks include: Age: Facebook users can skew older than MySpace; many organizations in the UK have had great success joining the ecosystem on Bebo to extend the opportunity for teens to reach out for social services in a private way.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

The Walker is also a place where everyone is committed to supporting artists and new work, so every time we bring in an artist, staff are enthusiastic about the idea of coming together to create something. In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience. And the guards were watching them; they didn't trust teens.

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Arts Interview Teen Artist 46

Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

The organization with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the Lenovo IdeaPad AND will be featured as the "Youth Impact" story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). The stories on the LIM are highly engaging and optimized for social media sharing. Ready to enter?

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Sponsor San Francisco Map Free 52

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

Within 24 hours of the news, the EMPSFM staff hosted a tribute event at a local music venue and mounted an exhibit of Jackson's iconic glove/jacket along with archival concert video in a free public area (appropriately called the Sky Church). Do these teens need EMPSFM to survive? This Matters." Probably not.

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Museum Teen Learning Music 34

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

We recommend that you don’t place board members in charge of setting strategic direction. Identify priorities for the types of programs and services you’ll offer to support your goals, target audience for your services, target supporter audiences, advocacy and public policy aims, and branding or marketing objectives.

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Examples Guide Model Los Angeles 120

Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. And that got me thinking about why I blog in the first place. I''ve never taken a break from blogging before.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

The people were of all ages--moms with babies strapped to their fronts, six year-olds using skillsaws, pre-teens building robots, teenagers doing homework. The design and feel of the place was different than any science center I''d ever experienced. In most cases, they''re not places where kids can go by themselves at all.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

Thousands of people geocache for a variety of reasons: to explore new places, to have outdoor adventures, to search for surprises out in the world. Both attract locals and tourists who may travel out of their way for the thrill of collecting another place or experience. Traveling public art! The “travel bugs” that Seth!

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Museum Teen Arts Project 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

The general public is not a community. This seems a little ungenerous to museums; while institutions may bestow more love upon wealthy, elderly donors than the general visiting public, museums have actively courted mass audiences for years. Be free, nearly free, often free, or free for locals. It's a place you can use.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I remember trying to sell calendars as a public school fundraiser when I was about 8. Early in my career, I worked at the local food bank. Partner with a local business. If you are a food pantry, partner with local restaurants or markets. For a shelter: A compassionate place to rest and restore. That was me.

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Fundraising Fund Teen Newsletter 120

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. local time). local time). "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

the Exploratorium is a place high school/junior high students go on field trips and make snarky videos at their teachers' behest (source: YouTube ). to make recreation decisions, reading blogs to form an impression, watching videos to get my feel for a place--these Web 2.0 If I'm an engaged spectator in the groundswell--using Yelp!

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Museum Teen Second Life Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

But there’s another kind of threshold fear I care about: the one that keeps museums from fully embracing and jumping into new ways of engaging the public, new ways of including visitors. We all have problems getting in the door—they’re just different doors.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. Give Families the Gift of a Place to Call Home. Contact local civic clubs and churches and see if you can get on their program schedule during the holidays. Public speaking is one of the best ways to spread the word about your cause and get in front of prospective donors.

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Strategy Business Fundraising Campaign 119

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

So we wanted to primarily address that issue: how can we pursue creative, innovative ideas for getting food out there that's affordable, that's local, that's fresh, and health-supportive, and then provide under that a foundation of education. We do a lot of work with teens in the summertime. Brahm Ahmadi: Sure.

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Podcast People Oakland Local 43

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Instead, she went out into local neighborhoods with low-income families and lousy schools and asked parents how they felt about their kids'' science education. Many YES teens don''t come in with confidence about their own abilities. YES students defy expectations.

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St. Louis Museum Audience Teen 45

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

The unconference got lots of locals "in the door" who otherwise hadn't considered the museum a useful or interesting place. Librarian Aaron Schmidt tells the great story of a game night of Dance, Dance, Revolution at his library in which a teen asked him: “Hey Aaron, can I go upstairs to grab a magazine and book to read?”

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 13, 2007

Malls are safe, stimulating public spaces for casual social interactions. It’s ironic, when you think about the great pains that museums and libraries go to to create spaces that are “teen-positive,” that malls attract kids effortlessly with fluorescent lights and lousy music. What does this place have for me?”

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

They were a rich collection museum with some local history—they had many dolls, a famous toy collection. I’m thinking of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which is trying to be a museum for people, but is also a national and collection-based place. So many science and children’s museums—client-centered places—feel the same.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Instead, she went out into local neighborhoods with low-income families and lousy schools and asked parents how they felt about their kids' science education. Many YES teens don't come in with confidence about their own abilities. YES students defy expectations.

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St. Louis Audience Teen Museum 53

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So I can tell y’all that stuff, y’all, but I’ll tell you my most important job and how I really, really learned to hone my leadership skills was as solo mama to this teen who, my friends, she has the mack daddy of all summer jobs. The next one is place and time. And then the next one, place and time.

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Work Management Video Slides 94

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

The exhibition is far from perfect, but it's a big step towards reflecting the "thriving, central gathering place" of our strategic vision. We invited a private art school to fill a very public wall with paintings made by students in response to the question, "How would you depict love?" We spent a long time prototyping this one.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard History 51

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Well, actually, why are we looking for grant funding in the first place? This is public information. And I know some of my clients are very local. They do very local work, and it’s only the small local foundations that are interested, at least initially, in funding them. Well, oftentimes places of employment.

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Grant Video Donor Foundation 103

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

As Eric said at one point, "kids--our target audience--are living in a world of things they choose to consume that is so full of sex, so full of irony, so full of subjectivity, and when they come to the museum it is one of the few places in the world they don't see that stuff. And so my question is, why are we keeping them away?

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Museum Professional Teen Map 20

M+R

DECEMBER 23, 2021

For example, Mother Jones ’ investigative story on Kentucky’s drastic reduction of polling places in predominantly Black neighborhoods was shared widely on Facebook (320,000+ shares). Outlets like Vogue , Teen Vogue , and Vanity Fair were once considered lifestyle-only publications, catering to an audience that enjoyed light-hearted content.

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Media Voice Teen Celebrate 105

Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2016

We invite diverse locals to share their creative and cultural talents with our greater community at the museum. Teens advocating for all-gender bathrooms. Local community centers and destination attractions are different beasts. My museum can pursue radical collaboration because of our small size and local focus.

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Community Museum Local Participatory 20

DipJar

AUGUST 24, 2022

Ah, public libraries! Are there any more wonderful places? A recent conversation with Erica Busillo Adams of Providence Public Library is a perfect case in point! Providence Public Library first opened to the public in 1878. This is demonstrated by the library’s efforts to collect important local archives.

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Library Public Local Reflection 105

Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

” So I ended up serving in the Peace Corps, and I was creating what were essentially marketing programs, public health marketing programs for the people and the places that I was living and the people that I was working with. . So if you scroll around, you can see all of these cool, different places. Okay, TikTok now.

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Social Media Trend Video Marketing 82