Imagine your children’s museum flooded with laughter, music, and … beer. Yes, I said beer. Sounds crazy, right? Not to the Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum. Starting in August 2012, The Discovery, a hands on science center, started offering adults-only fun with their Social Science event. Over 300 patrons came to “play like a [...]

The Partners In Preservation Program, sponsored by the National Historic Trust and American Express, is currently giving away $1m to historic locations in Washington DC. Altru‘s own National Museum of Civil War Medicine is competing to win $100,000 for Clara Barton’s Missing Soldiers Office. During the Civil War, Clara Barton’s downtown office was the first ever [...]

In the last couple weeks, the Altru blog has been offering advice on how to generate ticket sales and additional revenue for your events. As a follow up, we’re offering some advice on what you should do AFTER the event. Most organizations are great about thanking their constituents for attending an event, but there is [...]

We all know fear is a great motivator. Personally, it has kept me out of haunted houses, all of the Saw movies, and away from bungee jumping (the snap at the bottom is terrifying). But during my recent trip to the Museum of the Moving Image, it was fear that would move me to membership. [...]

With 62.8 million people volunteering almost 8.1 billion hours in local and national organizations in 2010 (a service valued at almost $173 billion)*, volunteers provide a powerful economic and social benefit to the nonprofit sector. I was recently able to spend some time chatting with Tara Carr, the Office and Membership Manager at the South [...]

As I mentioned in our Altru Adventure to EdVenture post, the Columbia children’s museum offers several occasions to visit for little or no fee. One of these opportunities is provided by Bank of America’s Museums on Us program. During the first full weekend of every month, the program covers all general admission tickets for those with Bank [...]