Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

In early October, Laura Beussman blogged about demand-based pricing for arts and culture organizations. Her blog talked about several different ways arts and culture organizations could ease into demand-based pricing, including scaling the house, peak load pricing, targeted discounts, and dynamic pricing.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 13, 2014

2013 was a strong year for fundraising, with charities posting their best increase since before the economy plunged in 2008, according to the 2013 Charitable Giving Report. With serious disasters abroad in 2013 eclipsing those in the U.S., Arts and culture – Giving for impact.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2014

Over the past eight years, Michael has been specifically focused on the Arts and Cultural marketplace and is an active participant in delivering speaking engagements and contributing to trade publication articles. . How do you internally define arts and culture? do you have?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Based on the her book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Award, Beth Kanter will share frameworks, strategies and practical tips for engaging with your network in ways that lead to measurable results. One of the themes I’m going to discuss is the Art and Science of Engagement. Register here.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

Two weeks ago, Roberto Bedoya asked several arts bloggers, including me, to write a post reflecting on Whiteness and its implications for the arts. I am in no way an expert in issues related to racial and ethnic representation in the arts. I never saw comparable adjectives used in the European art labels at the museum.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

When an organization embraces the culture of creating and empowering all staff to become “brand ambassadors,” authentic and exponential growth starts to happen. When organizations embrace this holistic culture, the nonprofit begins to come alive online. This isn’t a new concept. Could the experts offer one-on-one trainings over coffee?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2014

At the 2013 American Alliance of Museums annual conference, a group of exhibition designers explored authenticity in a session called Is it Real? While many of their examples came from history and natural science, one of my favorite examples is from art. There were different versions of the story. On a scientific specimen?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2015

. ” How is this influx of new people influencing Austin’s Arts & Cultural community? T hinkery21 happens every six weeks, and has a different theme every time. The event routinely sells out, and this month was no different. Genius, Thinkery, genius!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Also, by hanging out a few extra minutes after you post to engage with your alumni network on Facebook sets up a culture of interaction. Sharing memories from Seminar 2013 at the #icnola reunion! RamahSeminar (@RamahSeminar) December 24, 2013. RamahSeminar (@RamahSeminar) December 24, 2013. pic.twitter.com/PXdIUl0IIQ.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2016

I also taught networked leadership workshops as part of a larger team working with different social change networks. I also facilitated several design labs with nonprofits as part of the research for the Happy Healthy Nonprofit at the Alliance for Nonprofit Management and the National Arts Marketing Project.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 17, 2018

Wealthy donors tend to give more to larger nonprofits such as universities, hospitals, and arts and cultural groups. Figure 2 illustrates the rate at which people donate to different types of charitable organizations.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

In pop culture-land, relevance is all about now. This is the least useful form of relevance for the arts. It's a cultural institution problem. Consider the Victoria and Albert Museum's "rapid response collecting" program , which started in 2013. What's trending. The problem was not one of content but one of form.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 2, 2017

Almost every arts organization would say that audience development is vital to their long term viability. Arts and cultural organizations are left wondering: Who should we focus on because they have the potential to become long-term patrons? One of my favorites has been pioneered by the National Center for Arts Research.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

As we prepare for our leap into 2014, let’s learn from 2013′s ups and downs – triumphs and flops – and make this next year one for the record books. Here’s Your 2013 Nonprofit Roundup: THIS – thanks to Marc Koenig of Nonprofit Hub: Nonprofits, 2014 is the Year of the Blog.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2021

Regardless of what your goals are for the campaign – fundraising, engagement, acquisition, or just building a culture of gratitude – here is a framework you can use to take your campaign to the next level and take advantage of the flexibility that an integrated digital engagement approach can provide. decrease in overall giving and a 6.2%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

Wendy Hanamura (@WHanamura) January 25, 2013. The term “Black Sheep” comes from Brad Bird at Pixar – Black Sheep are people who are willing to challenge the status quo and think differently about problems – they are experts at placing Little Bets. 6. Irvine Foundation Arts Innovation Fund.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 10, 2014

Facebook wants to own every app that we use in this very different digital world’ So what does this mean? for the first six months of 2014 compared to 2013, driven primarily (59%) by contributions to Faith-based, Education, and Human Services organizations. Read his post to hear why.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2017

They fill many roles in different capacities, bringing diverse skill sets as board members, committee leads, exhibit guides, ushers, admins, and more. 4% from 2013-2014. Your volunteers want to make a difference. Volunteers are superheroes! They are your advocates, champions, ambassadors, and worker bees.

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