Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

In the last 24 hours since the project launched, there's been a firehose of ideas for giving that don't require getting out your checkbook or credit card and cringing. Don't get me wrong - giving money to charitable causes is a good thing - but if you looking into your wallet makes you want to cry, there are alternatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

These teens are actively involved what Jenkins calls "participatory culture" - a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating and sharing one's creations, and some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. For example, on Monday afternoon Inspectors were asked to make more interesting alternatives to all the signs and rules in the building. How did this project come about?

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Art Exhibition You can never go wrong with highlighting local artists. Arts-based nonprofits can employ local artists to teach any number of art forms; environmental nonprofits can teach gardening; food pantries can host cooking classes; the possibilities are endless! In this image, children enjoy a trunk or treat Halloween event.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

The mission of World of Good, as a company, is to create the largest distribution system for fair trade, handmade items from artists' and women's cooperatives around the world. So women cook, clean and take care of their children, and these are all uncompensated activities.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Are they wanting to fund children’s programs? That higher education level, the ability to communicate, the ability to complete their education affects probably their spouse or their partner, it might affect their children. If the experience of those children is not positive, then is it really a celebration?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

Our proto-users are artists, architects, university professors, mathematicians, engineers who have already been experimenting with creating interactive environments and objects within the virtual world. I can talk to an artist about her digital storytelling piece while watching two engineers experiment with a sensor-rich dance floor.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Don’t ask for your organization, instead ask donors to help the animals, trees, kids, sick people, students, artists, whoever you are serving and helping. Holiday e-cards for your family and friends” – a green alternative that can promote your nonprofit AND carry a donation to your cause. Dogs and children are wonderful.).

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

While virtual fundraising events were simply a quick alternative, they actually proved to be a convenient and effective way to engage with donors. For a virtual version of this event, consider co-op online video games as an alternative. Art show – Are there any local artists in your area? Recreational Fundraising Ideas.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

I think the bathroom wall made this possible by being an alternative for those who wanted to be a little less focused and just have fun with sharpies. In the end, the Advice exhibit offered four main experiences--two that were facilitated, and two that were unfacilitated. They were totally focused on the questions and answers at hand.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

They voted on the best plays in the days of Sophocles, stormed the symphony halls when confronted with artistic dischord, and talked and wrote about what they saw and what they thought. Proper audiences were like docile children, seen and not heard. As Conner puts it: Eventually the combination of environmental forces (i.e.,

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now. You just have to keep planting and just got to hope that other people will come along after you to water those seeds and to know that the trees our for our children's children.

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