The Urgency of Empathy & Social Impact in Museums
Mike Murawksi explores empathy and social impact in museums. Museums are institutions that hold collections. But they can also serve a powerful role with our communities as active spaces for connection and coming together, for conversation and dialogue, for listening and sharing. Museums can be spaces for individual stories and community voices. They can be a space for acknowledging and reflecting on differences, and for bridging divides. They can be spaces for growth, struggle, love, and hope.
Basing pay on salary history is a harmful, borderline-unethical practice that we need to abolish
Vu Le of Nonprofit with Balls discusses the ethics behind the practice of asking for salary history for job applicants.
Technology Meets History: Brooklyn Museum Uses App to Spark Visitor Engagement
In 2015, the Brooklyn Museum introduced its Ask App, which allows visitors to pose questions for the museum’s historians and instantly receive answers using a platform similar to Apple’s iMessage.
Six Museum Words to Make You Vomit
Jim Fishwick and Tilly Boleyn presented recently at the 2016 Museums Australasia conference. Every industry has their own buzzwords and jargon. Their presentation explored the buzzwords that museums use.
Wayfinding Signage Tips
Getting from point A to point B—without somehow first hitting point Z, J or Q—sounds like it should be easy enough, but it doesn’t always end up that way.
A Different Ask During Giving Season: Skilled Volunteers
While many nonprofits focus much of their energy during the end-of-year giving season to fundraising, there is another kind of contribution nonprofit organizations can request – skill-based volunteers.
Ask a Content Guy: What Content Metrics Really Matter?
Joe Lazauskas answers the questions "What are the analytics that “really matter” in 2016? What is the best way to share them company wide?"
To Pursue or Not to Pursue – Foundation Grants, That Is
With foundation grants accounting for only 10% – 15% of all charitable gifts in the United States, nonprofits should carefully assess if it makes sense to dedicate time and resources to compete for them.