Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Purim is a Jewish holiday that brings a community together — and gives everyone an excuse to dress up on a day that isn’t Halloween. Host a Passover seder as an alternative to the rubber chicken dinner or spaghetti supper. Get the whole neighborhood or local community involved and create a Garage Sale Trail of your own.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Alternatively, you can also pre-record your live-stream. Reach out to a talented volunteer or local artist to lead the class, and purchases the necessary supplies. Have your lead artist jump on and run the class on Zoom. The Brooklyn Museum let a local artist take over their Instagram for a day. Zoom to the rescue!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

In 1992, I discovered the Internet, Well, and was hired by the New York Foundation of the Arts to be the Network Weaver for a network for artists, Arts Wire. I had a chance to collaborate with every type of art form, arts management programs, arts education, and individual artists. The same values hold true today over at NTEN ).

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2012

Featuring a lively mix of nonprofit technology guests sharing their unique perspectives on ways to harness the power of gaming as a catalyst for good, you'll hear how some organizations are using games as a platform for teaching leadership skills, problem solving, and global community building to youth. Expert Guests.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

After our last Nonprofits Live event on gaming, our social media team received many questions and requests — many of you in the TechSoup community are excited about the future of creating games for nonprofit causes! community. (BJ). TechSoup community can save 10% with the code TECHSOUP here: [link]. How to Design.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Although this appears at first glance to be beyond reach in a virtual setting, consider breaking down each aspect one by one to consider online alternatives. Alternatively, you might combine a silent auction with a shop by allowing buyers to either purchase an item at a buy-it-now or have the item awarded to the highest bidder.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

Gateway to the Arts is a Pittsburgh-based organization that exposes young people to the arts through performances, classroom visits by professional artists, and integration of arts into school curriculum, all with a staff of six. Gateway spent some time researching various CMSes and decided that Joomla was the best alternative for them.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2013

In the course of the conversation, Devon Smith, a social media consultant from Threespot, started talking the problem of arts organizations that are no longer relevant or useful to their communities. They closed for capricious financial reasons, and they left disappointed artists and participants in their wake. Absolutely.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

And Carlton Turner runs Alternate Roots , another incredible artists' organization with a focus on social change that runs an annual conference/camp/experience which I have heard is mind-blowing in North Carolina. My sister attended, and I kicked myself about 87 times for not knowing about it or getting out there.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

If you don't have a sense of an outcome--whether that be internal research, community conversation, or something else--you can't decide how or whether contributions should be documented or archived. To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Call us social entrepreneurs, changemakers, social innovators, nonprofiteers, the delta sector, np techies, community benefit professionals, pick your poison, there’s a growing number of places we hang out - with one another. And I think it’s good that we’re building such a fun, vibrant community…but not good enough. CHRISTOPHER R.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

We created Race Through Time in partnership with a local networking group called Santa Cruz Next , whose primary aim is to support and celebrate ways that young professionals can and are changing our community for the better. I love hanging out with those people in those hip venues. What do you think?

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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

We often talk about museums as leaders in providing substantive, essential alternatives to formal schooling. We have a great community of learners that ask and answer questions and our videos are being translated by volunteers all over the world. We wrote about that in a recent blog post, Why the Google Art Project is Important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." The paper gives examples of different forms of participatory culture: - Affiliations (memberships - formal and informal - in online communities). each of various qualities. More here ). *

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

Social media, in particular, offers a day-to-day alternative to annual reports, press releases and grant reports in showing direct impact in a consistent, immediate way. Hope Phones , for example, has been using Twitter to good effect in the mHealth movement, showing how mobile phones contribute to assisting community health workers efforts.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Potlucks Potlucks are another great way to build a sense of community as you raise funds for your cause. Alternately, you can sponsor a trip to a local pumpkin patch with entry fees going towards your nonprofit. If you’re planning a community clean-up event, this sale could pair very nicely with it.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The best event for your nonprofit is one that serves your mission, delights your community, and doesn’t totally burn out your staff. Charity Races like marathons, 5Ks, fun runs, or walkathons invite participants to register with your nonprofit and collect donations from their community, making every step count for your cause.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible. The Underground Library isn’t just a community archive of things past.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

For the first time, I didn't feel like a crazy person for wanting to have an alternative vision for my career. Creating a Life Worth Living: A Practical Course in Career Design for Artists, Innovators, and Others Aspiring to a Creative Life by Carol Lloyd. You might have the makings of a community organizer. Why do you organize?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

In one case, the institution jumped into the conversation and converted an ugly situation into a positive community outcome. Here’s what happened: an art critic named Jerry Saltz posted an incendiary note on Facebook about the very low representation of women artists on the 4th and 5th floors (painting and sculpture) of MoMA.

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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. Each one is made in a community where it is actually creating a sustainable economic development opportunity in that community.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

We'll be "closing shop" on the June exhibit submissions at the end of March, but we then plan to open up to the virtual community a much broader set of exhibition themes--both from The Tech and other museums--for experimentation and creative exhibit development. with a few significant differences. with a few significant differences.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

This is going to be a real treat for the community. Most of our nonprofits have a human or community interest in mind, that purpose, and they exist to create impact, positive impact on the communities that we serve. And finally, you know, what do we want the community to do when they see and read this impact report?

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Small churches play a big role in their community. They’re home base for all kinds of community gatherings and events! To support your community, you first need a strong financial foundation. collect pledges in return for participating in a big community service day. Enlist in Boot Camp. Small churches do big things.

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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. This social aspect makes it a powerful way to boost visibility in your community and raise money for your programs! in 2019 increase to $108.62 Be creative with this.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Community and opportunities for collaboration can be lost when it is just you sitting down to work each day. Coworking, a group of individual entrepreneurs sharing a work space, can provide that community while also being an environmentally sustainable choice. So anyway, that's kind of where coworking came from.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 19, 2006

The 3rd Annual Artivist Film Festival & Awards ' mission is to strengthen the voice of international activist artists and raise public awareness of global issues. Youth Network My country was at war for 36 years and community structures and resources have been destroyed. Barbra Streisand. DIANA'S STORY (0:06) Dir - Listen Up!

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Airbnb is another example of extractive platform capitalism, as the company delivers hearty profits to its private owners, who are far removed from local host communities. For instance, Stocksy United, a platform cooperative for photographers, videographers, and artists generally, has a fair wage distribution system for members.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2012

Now, another institution--the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, which welcomes 54,000 visitors annually and manages a school for community members as well as BFA and MFA students. At the same time, it was deeply accessible to a cadre of teachers, students, and artists who spent prolonged periods with the work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

Louis is a traditional artist and I was in the journalism field. We had been working on films as kids for a long time; we liked the kind of mass communication. We just sort of put it out there, and it's a very small community and a very loyal community, especially in Washington, of progressive people.

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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. We'll be taking with arts activist Alli Chagi-Starr, the Cultural Arts Director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights ' Reclaim the Future Program.

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