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Over the Edge Fundraising MPMA Fargo, ND 2007 Allyson Lazar, Orinda Group, LLC

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Sources of Revenue Covered in the Survey <ul><li>Programs </li></ul><ul><li>Partnering </li></ul><ul><li>Use of Collections </li></ul><ul><li>Fundraising Activities </li></ul><ul><li>Organizational Structure </li></ul><ul><li>Museum Businesses </li></ul><ul><li>Museum Website Services </li></ul><ul><li>Internet Resources </li></ul>

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Survey Statistics <ul><li>143 Respondents </li></ul><ul><li>57% 1-10 Employees </li></ul><ul><li>51% Mountain-Plains or Midwest </li></ul><ul><li>Top Three Sources of Income: </li></ul><ul><li>Federal/State/County/City Funds </li></ul><ul><li>Grants </li></ul><ul><li>Membership </li></ul>

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Success Rates of Programs and Activities <ul><li>79% Event Rental </li></ul><ul><li>77% Auctions </li></ul><ul><li>70% Sleep-Overs </li></ul><ul><li>61% Holiday Shopping Events </li></ul><ul><li>41% Travel Programs </li></ul><ul><li>40% Specialty License Plate Programs </li></ul><ul><li>33% Open House/Behind-the-Scenes Events </li></ul><ul><li>25% Car Donations </li></ul>

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Partnering with Other Organizations <ul><li>Most Common Reasons for Partnering: </li></ul><ul><li>Increase Visibility </li></ul><ul><li>Collaborative Programming </li></ul><ul><li>Cross-marketing Purposes </li></ul><ul><li>Cooperative Grants/Funding </li></ul><ul><li>Most Common Partnering Projects: </li></ul><ul><li>Exhibitions </li></ul><ul><li>Digitization </li></ul><ul><li>Advertising/Marketing </li></ul><ul><li>Programming (such as lectures) </li></ul>

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Corporate Partnering <ul><li>Exhibits </li></ul><ul><li>TV/DVD/Documentaries </li></ul><ul><li>Museum Books </li></ul><ul><li>Public Debate </li></ul><ul><li>Cooperative Programming </li></ul>

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Use of Collections <ul><li>Merchandise Licensing </li></ul><ul><li>Interactive DVDs </li></ul><ul><li>Downloadables (computer &quot;wallpaper&quot; or screensavers) </li></ul><ul><li>Rights and Reproduction/Photo Use </li></ul><ul><li>Research Requests </li></ul><ul><li>Loans </li></ul><ul><li>Traveling Exhibition Fees </li></ul>

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Fundraising Events <ul><li>Large Annual Fundraising Events: </li></ul><ul><li>67% Consider these events cost-effective </li></ul><ul><li>93% Resulted in 0-20% of annual revenue </li></ul><ul><li>Most Common Non-Annual Fundraisers: </li></ul><ul><li>Buy-a-(brick, tile, star, etc.) </li></ul><ul><li>Adopt-a-(shelf, artifact, animal, exhibit) </li></ul><ul><li>Cookbooks </li></ul><ul><li>Calendars </li></ul>

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Organizational Structure <ul><li>41% Have a friends group or foundation </li></ul><ul><li>66% Reported the friends group brought in 0-10% of annual revenue </li></ul>

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Museum-Owned Businesses <ul><li>Retail </li></ul><ul><li>Café </li></ul><ul><li>Farming </li></ul><ul><li>Property Rental </li></ul>

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Museum Website Services <ul><li>44% Online Membership Enrollment </li></ul><ul><li>36% Online Donations/Giving </li></ul><ul><li>29% Online Gift Shop Retail </li></ul><ul><li>9% Online Admissions/special exhibition tickets </li></ul><ul><li>40% None of these </li></ul>

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Museum Web 2.0 Strategies <ul><li>Why offer online services? </li></ul><ul><li>Provide more resources </li></ul><ul><li>Build awareness </li></ul><ul><li>Keep up with the Joneses </li></ul><ul><li>Reach a broader audience </li></ul><ul><li>Provide more content </li></ul><ul><li>Provide a flexible means for audience interaction </li></ul><ul><li>Attract new demographics </li></ul><ul><li>Low cost, low risk </li></ul><ul><li>Get funds </li></ul><ul><li>30% Plan on using one or more in the next six months </li></ul>

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Social Networking Websites <ul><li>180 museum profiles on Flickr </li></ul><ul><li>Almost 5000 museum-related groups on Flickr </li></ul><ul><li>100s of museums on MySpace </li></ul><ul><li>1000s of videos tagged “museum” on YouTube </li></ul><ul><li>Almost 4000 museum-related groups on Yahoo! Groups </li></ul>

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Third-Party E-Philanthropy Websites <ul><li>Most Commonly Reported Sites: </li></ul><ul><li>Shopformuseums.com </li></ul><ul><li>Goodsearch.com </li></ul><ul><li>iGive.com </li></ul><ul><li>Missionfish.com </li></ul>

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Strategies to Try <ul><li>Event Rental </li></ul><ul><li>Auctions </li></ul><ul><li>Sleep-overs </li></ul><ul><li>Holiday Shopping Events </li></ul><ul><li>Partnering/Corporate Partnering </li></ul><ul><li>Use of Collections </li></ul><ul><li>Specific, Targeted “Creative” Fundraisers </li></ul><ul><li>Friends Groups/Foundations </li></ul><ul><li>Owning/Leasing Space to Separate Business </li></ul><ul><li>eCommerce- and ePhilanthropy-Enabled Website </li></ul><ul><li>Social Media on the Museum Website </li></ul><ul><li>Social Networking Sites </li></ul><ul><li>Third-party ePhilanthropy Sites </li></ul>

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<ul><li>To view the complete survey results or to view this presentation, please visit: </li></ul><ul><li>orindagroup.com/OGBlog/articles06/02_07_MPMA.html </li></ul>

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Zoo Matchmaker from the Minnesota Zoo

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Museumonthego.com

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The Exploratorium’s Center for Museum Partnerships

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MPMA MySpace Page myspace.com/mountainplains

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Shopformuseums.com

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Goodsearch.com