A fundraising discussion on a museum listserve was slammed down by the site's admin as soon as it started recently, and that's too bad because there are so many exciting, engaging, meaningful, content-full, and participatory ways to raise funds for your musuem programs these days. One of my colleagues from U of T Museum Studies, Yael Filipovic has posted this Kickstarter plea on Facebook: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spurse/eat-your-sidewalk
And the sneaker-shod CEO of Kickstarter, Yancey Strickler, is interviewed in the NYTimes's Corner Office column, providing some profound (and FUN) insights into fundraising with an ethical heart. I love his finishing comment: "Old forms of patronage were about the elite being able to just incentivize people to create the art that they wanted." says Strickler, "And now you have anyone, anyone can be a patron of the arts. Anyone in the world."
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/corner-office/kickstarter-diy-fundraising-social-network-age
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