Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Give by Cell offers a suite of mobile fundraising tools to organizations, higher education, and museums and cultural institutions. Text messaging is just that: one of the easiest and most cost-effective technologies you can add to any communication strategy.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Once upon a time, there was a beloved children’s museum in the middle of a thriving city. The brilliant team at the museum set out to find a bigger space and ran a successful capital campaign to expand to a much larger location. Like the set of the movie Night at the Museum , these guests had the whole museum to themselves.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

Jude, Make A Wish, American Cancer Society, and The Museum of African American History. 13) Emily Quinn Emily Quinn (auctionemily.com) consults with nonprofits and foundations seeking to raise funds and create long-lasting relationships with donors and sponsors through fundraising events.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 24, 2022

A car museum would do well to select a vintage car; a mountain bicycling association would be successful with the latest high-end mountain bike as their prize. If your nonprofit has a brick and mortar presence (for example, if you’re a museum, or you have an office that the public visits), display your prize! Are they outdoorsy types?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

We connect with people both professionally and personally, at the museum and on the street. This weekend, I got my answer in Seoul--the 18th biggest city in the world--at Hello Museum. Nestled in a forest of high-rise apartment buildings, this small museum connects children and families with contemporary art. million people.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. I'm generalizing grossly here, but for the most part, I find European museums to be conservative. I find North American museums to be risk-averse.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Virtual tours can be surprisingly pleasurable and rejuvenating while not having to travel anywhere — just let a tour guide show you around a museum, ancient site, city, or gallery while live streaming to a group of people. It’s one of those things that you must have first-hand experience in to believe in its efficacy.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2014

Individual donors give for completely different reasons than companies do, so it’s important to determine why you’re creating levels in the first place and how you want those levels to influence your donors, for both individuals and corporate sponsors. This group was geared for the 20 to 40-something crowd, and they met for quarterly events.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

bbcon 2021 Virtual , happening October 13–15, will bring together thousands of arts & cultural professionals from zoos, museums, aquaria, performing arts organizations, gardens, and beyond for three days of cutting-edge thought leadership, virtual peer networking and unforgettable experiences.

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Forum One

JANUARY 3, 2023

We will continue to see museums, theaters, tourist destinations, and other cultural institutions identify new, innovative ways in 2023 to engage more deeply with their audiences online. The National Museum of African American History and Culture built an army of volunteers who have so far helped transcribe over 400,000 pages of the 1.7

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

While many companies have been holding online-only shareholder meetings during the pandemic, Tesla says it will hold an in-person event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California in addition to a webcast. This year that meeting will take place on July 7th, according to the filing.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 7, 2022

For museums, gardens, zoos, and aquariums to serve all people in their communities, staff must be aware of the societal disparities and gaps that interplay with their operations, decisions, and programs. You can also schedule one-on-one time with attendees, speakers, and sponsors using the networking feature in the virtual platform.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Here are some tips to consider: Reach out to sponsors or partners for auction prizes. Ask sponsors to promote your event on their social media channels. To make this process easier, provide graphics or dedicated videos for sponsors and partners to share themselves. Provide text and graphics so sponsors know exactly what to send.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 23, 2014

Individual donors give for completely different reasons than companies do, so it’s important to determine why you’re creating levels in the first place and how you want those levels to influence your donors, for both individuals and corporate sponsors. This group was geared for the 20 to 40-something crowd, and they met for quarterly events.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Leverage the mutual benefits of corporate partnerships by asking your sponsors to contribute a corporate package or basket to your auction. Museum passes Offer a local museum bundle for those looking to explore more of the cultural and historical opportunities your city has to offer. Stewarding sponsors effectively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

It was sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation, Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Grants for the Arts, and the Koret Foundation. The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

That support could come in the form of employer-sponsored “no-cost rainy day funds” and on-demand financial therapy with the goal of “creating a healthier workforce environment.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

According to my colleague Rik Riel, this campaign is sponsored by the Spanish NGO Mensajeros de la Paz , which is leveraging various new media to draw attention to their work. They have sponsored 296 foster homes housing 2,300 children! Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. There's YouTube video here.

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The Next Web

JUNE 6, 2013

The organisation’s lack of street cred is hardly a surprise given that it is in fact a “business-led executive non-departmental public body” (NDPB) sponsored by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Global was the co-sponsor and it was great to catch up with long-time colleague, Marnie Webb , Co-Ceo. Examples: Wildlife Direct and Brooklyn Museum. Connecting With Colleagues TechSoup Global was the co-sponsor and it was [.]. Connecting With Colleagues. 337. These ideas are illustrated in the slides below.

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Bloomerang

JULY 29, 2024

Consider getting a corporate sponsor to invite their contacts and underwrite the event. Collaborate with other nonprofits to cross-promote membership programs; for example, an art museum could partner with a local theater to offer joint memberships or discounts. These events can feature exclusive tours or free classes.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

There's the barrier of the concern that this work is "social work" and not art--and therefore doesn't belong in a museum or a theater. He got to see the museum process from the inside. One of the institutions that really impresses me in supporting this kind of social change through the arts is, strangely enough, a children's museum.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! Me: Have you ever been to this museum? meetup for Elite Yelp!

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NTEN

MARCH 8, 2012

Are you interested in digital scrapbooking with seniors, planting flowers, or training kids as museum tour guides? Some of your friendly nonprofit tech organizations and sponsors have planned fabulous parties at venues around the Union Square neighborhood. Set up your Day of Service or Curbside Consulting appointments.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2017

This year, I had the privilege to join fellow museum professionals at Museum Advocacy Day. A Closer Look at Museum Advocacy Day. Museum Advocacy Day, created by the American Alliance of Museums and sponsored by Blackbaud, provides supporters the tools they need to spread the word about important issues regarding museums.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

The ASTC (the Association of Science and Technology Centers) annual meeting is coming up in LA (home of my childhood), and Museum 2.0 In a world of increasingly sterile museum environments, the Museum of Jurassic Technology is a beacon of emotion, strangeness, and wonder. And if you want a more traditional Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

So when I stumbled across Austin Museum Day , project of the Austin Museum Partnership, I loved discovering that this event is offering free admission to thousands of Austin residents who likely wouldn’t otherwise visit cultural organizations. A: This year will be our 18th annual Austin Museum Day! Q: Why was it created?

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 21, 2022

Be sure to tune in early to catch Cloud for Good’s Pre-Keynote Commercial featuring some of our amazing clients like Boys and Girls Club of America, Brooklyn Museum, Shatterproof, and The Food Bank for New York City. . Hear how Childfund International is using NPSP for fundraising, case management, and sponsor management.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

This week, we look at Chapter 5 of Elaine Gurian's book Civilizing Museums , Choosing Among the Options: An opinion about museum definitions in two parts. First published in Curator magazine in 2002, this essay presents five different museum "types" and their distinct opportunities and challenges.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2007

This week, with the gracious help of Eric Siegel of the New York Hall of Science , Museum 2.0 In the spirit of that question, Museum 2.0 will be sponsoring a number of test projects in collaboration under the banner of coLAB. Tags: exhibition Museums Engaging in 2.0 When is the wisdom of crowds really successful?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2007

Whatever it is, museum program and exhibit designers, take note: I want a museum jam. There are some museums doing projects like this; Ontario Science Centre's RIG (rapid idea generation) sessions, in which they develop and put on the floor exhibits/programs in about 4 hours, are a great example.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Sporting, museum, or concert tickets. In addition to combing through your CRM for potential donors for your auction, you should also ask any corporate sponsors if they’d be willing to make in-kind donations to the event. Do your research on unique and must-have auction items your guests will be eager to bid on and win.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2007

On Musematic , Holly Witchey has rigorously recorded her recent experience at WebWise, a " IMLS/RLG/OCLC/Getty sponsored conference" on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World that was held March 1-2. To museum ears, this is fairly blasphemous--the idea that people want to use our content, not our exhibits. I like this.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more. If you don’t have the sponsors or the budget for high-end prizes, try hosting a trash art auction. Participants could gather sponsorships from friends and family for their participation, and the event itself could take place in a museum or gallery space.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

For the past five years, each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has hosted MuseumCamp. And it's not just for museum people. While we will tour some of the MAH’s participatory programs and exhibitions, this bootcamp is not museum-centric. We welcome campers from diverse community, civic, and cultural sites.

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 1, 2021

Our volunteers, docents, and donors are instrumental in the success of the museum and its programs,” said Madelyn Strubelt, Director of Visitor and Volunteer Services for Holocaust Museum Houston. Why Volunteer Management Software. We also needed to improve our process and organization of volunteer data.”

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