The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Well-planned events enable nonprofits, community groups, businesses and government agencies to showcase AAPI arts, food, performances, and more. Consider partnering with AAPI organizations to help promote the event and encourage attendance. Consider featuring traditional music, dance, theater, or martial arts groups from the community.

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Candid

MARCH 27, 2024

In February, bucking end-of-year trends, none of these human services sub-categories were searched more often than the arts and culture sub-categories listed above. Looking at top queries month by month can help identify trends among and within certain types of profiles during specific time periods.

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EveryAction

JULY 12, 2023

Here are five activities you can put into action between now and the end of the year to ensure your list is ready to go as soon as the 2024 sessions convene. You can activate volunteers on your priority campaigns with the typical actions like sending messages to lawmakers, making phone calls, or tweeting at officials.

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Classy

MAY 5, 2021

During similar global crises, humanity responded with generosity, donating money or time to help others. Donor behavior continues to evolve just as we’ve seen in previous waves of activism and solidarity, such as Live Aid , the 2004 Tsunami , and the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Emotionraising, Explained. Build Donor Loyalty.

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Everyaction

JULY 5, 2018

Arts and culture organizations such as media companies, magazines, public radio stations, museums, theaters, and arts advocates have unique needs when it comes to data management. Database and CRM systems for arts and cultural organizations should offer the capability for several key tasks: 1.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 6, 2020

We love Know Your Own Bone because it uses data to help cultural organizations stay relevant in today’s ever-changing world. I had a total fan-girl moment meeting Colleen when she delivered the Arts & Cultural track’s keynote at bbcon 2019 in Nashville last October. Robert Gilmor , Jr.”

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Instead of just stating, “Using analytics, we can boost membership by 10%,” frame it as, “Imagine a world where 10% more people actively champion the environment, all because we understood their needs better. If you need help making your case, A2 is here for you! That’s the power of analytics.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Source: National Arts Index It's at times like these -- in the midst of an extended recession and the wake of the tragedy in Haiti -- that the role of funding arts in society may be called into question. After all, funding for the arts (theater, dance, music, museums etc.) Many may be asking, therefore, “Why fund the arts?”

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Help take some of this stress away by auctioning off concert tickets for famous acts coming through town. Recently, modernist and impressionist paintings have been selling particularly well in the art world. Recently, modernist and impressionist paintings have been selling particularly well in the art world.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 22, 2024

Bloomerang Volunteer helped to transform ShowerUp’s operations by streamlining the volunteer recruitment and management processes. Bloomerang Volunteer helped co-founder Amanda Anschutz quantify the financial value of volunteer contributions. “The user-friendly signup experience has been revolutionary,” said Schmitz.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Though we’re disappointed to not be exploring Seattle with all of our awesome Arts and Cultural friends, we are super excited for our first-ever virtual bbcon 2020 ! Arts and Cultural will have thousands of professionals represented from organizations ranging from zoos to museums, performing arts organizations to libraries, and beyond!

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CauseVox

JUNE 29, 2022

To help you out, we’ve pulled seven of our favorite examples of donation pages and highlighted what we love about them. This often leads to larger donations, while helping donors feel like they’re making a difference for your mission. that’s designed to help you get more online pledges and automatically fulfill them.

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Forum One

MARCH 23, 2023

Museums are magical places, where history, culture, art, and science seem to come to life. With seamless branding and user design, we help museums create a visitor experience that continues whether they’re at home, scanning information on their phone, or standing in the museum itself.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Arts and cultural organizations are the sources of some of our favorite DipJar stories. Arts, culture, and performance are all personal passions for her. During the pandemic, the theater allowed other arts organizations to use its space to produce content. They are literally all over the map. It even serves as a voting location!

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

As I think about arts & cultural institutions, I realize that my family is an ideal target for these organizations. What does our consumption of arts & cultural organizations look like? For performing arts, maybe something as simple as adding a reminder to my calendar on the day and time tickets go on sale.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The strategies in this article will help you. Check on your retention rate throughout the year and adjust your donor outreach and engagement activities accordingly. You can extend this concept into other activities, too, including your appeals, peer-to-peer fundraising events, and other campaigns.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

These aren’t just jokes for people who like art — they’re real membership categories at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston. Al though I live a thousand miles away, I almost bought a membership just to support their art puns. . Or are you more of a “Sugar Dada”? . Special Member Access .

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

We sent weekly Membership Monday emails; created a new space online and on social media with story time, art activities, curatorial walk throughs; provided holiday meals for purchase from our café each month; and hosted Zoom talks with artists from our collection. These guidelines helped frame the work needed for opening day.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 29, 2024

Outdoor events offer a unique blend of advantages that can benefit both your organization and your supporters: Fresh Air and Fun: Your Entertainment and Program Chair can be inspired by the Spring weather to encouraging attendees to relax, socialize, and participate in activities they might not indoors.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

Priya Parker's wonderful book The Art of Gathering shares the core principles of how to drive. Here are my three big takeaways from The Art of Gathering : Hosting is an exercise in courageous leadership. When participants are diverse, explicit rules help. But for some reason, I applied none of those lessons to my new situation.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Think about what types of activities your organization offers that kids would like. Maybe think about activities you could support that would offer parents a place for their kids to go and learn, like a movie series, art classes, or a small-scale concert. Could your teen volunteers help run the kids programs?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

I was seeking a way to combine my interest in technology and helping people. Since that time, I’ve been involved in the sector helping organizations with a wide range of communications and technology challenges. I also find it helpful to set healthy boundaries around my tech use. One final thought on this point.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Arts and Social Media View more presentations from kanter. This morning I gave a presentation for a group of senior marketing people from performing arts centers around the country on social media. Last week, I sent a tweet asking folks to add their best examples into the wiki which helped me create the presentation.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

Organized by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA) , this year’s 27th annual awards includes over 6,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world. Excellence – Website for Art. The Frist Art Museum. Without further ado: the winners!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Effective content curation can help your nonprofit engage your audiences and help spread your organization’s content beyond current supporters because it can trigger sharing and conversation. It is a content discovery tool that helps tune your Facebook newsfeed based on keywords. Take Crowdtangle as an example.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Davey Awards are sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts , a top-tier body of select professionals from the “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms. GOLD – Activism for Websites. Gold – Activism for Websites. Gold – Arts for Websites.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Or try additional experiential events like interactive workshops, virtual reality experiences, or access to behind-the-scenes activities. This type of activity helps both with data collection and adds an element of excitement to the event. These activities enhance the overall experience and encourage participation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2021

As of now, nonprofits, activism, and philanthropy are virtually non-existent in the metaverse (pun intended). Digital goods can range from digital art that you can buy, sell, and collect on OpenSea to accessories for your avatar in the metaverse. The Oculus Quest 2 experience. Get the idea? About the Author.

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Bloomerang

JULY 24, 2023

To help nonprofit board and staff leaders address this challenge, I created a list of more than 100 fundraising tasks for nonprofit board members. The list offers a wide range of activities to choose from to support the financial growth of the organization. This is fun and easy and could become an ongoing activity.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Arts and Cultural organizations are capitalizing on this giving movement by creating a clear call-to-action attached to customized campaigns. Donors and other organizations want to know that you are an official 501(c)3 and active #GivingTuesday participant. This will help motivation and create that added boost, if needed.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Every arts and culture organization has a brand and that brand has a purpose. For arts and culture organizations, brand purpose is often about facilitating learning and engaging visitors in unforgettable experiences that provide educational and social value. The purpose of a brand is a reason for the brand to exist beyond making money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

Nonprofit arts organization Zero1 needed a way to help people make sense of its biennial, Seeking Silicon Valley, scheduled for September 2012. As recently noted by Frank Barry of Blackbaud, technology plays a key role as the art and culture sector engages its audience. To tackle the challenge, Zero1 decided to create an app.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2020

Recently I facilitated an online session about how to get better at online meetings for Lightful in the UK where I am a Senior Advisor at Lightful, among other activities, facilitate online master classes for their BRIDGE programme. But it can also help you feel closer to your colleagues when attending a meeting. Don’t wing it alone.

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Qgiv

MAY 5, 2022

Community art project. Create a community art project at your mental health nonprofit. Start by treating the project as a form of art therapy and ask those you serve to create their picture of good mental health. Then open it up to the community and charge to take part in the community art project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

How can you describe user participation in a shared language that helps your team make the right decision for your project? Online, this may be a campaign that is started by a member and then supported and fueled with institutional help. Here’s a chart that may help you figure out what type is best for your next project.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

I worried: “Could they use help writing their appeal ? I hope these numbers inspire you to send more appeals, set realistic goals, get help from a professional fundraising copywriter, and get training so you can make your end-of-year fundraising dreams come true (no matter how dreamy they are!). 27% were only sending out 4-5 appeals.

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