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Forward Unto the Breach: Don’t Rest on Nonprofit Laurels

Bloomerang

There are ways to take the wonderful work you’re doing and expand your reach to teach more people, heal more people and enrich more people’s lives. Any culture where almost everyone follows, and few people lead, is one with a power dynamic that’s easily corrupted. you can still go deeper.

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Creating A Culture of Well-being in Your Nonprofit Workplace: The First Step

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Erika Atkins, Director of Operations at Opening Act , a theatre program that teaches theatre skills to students from New York City’s most underserved schools to help them succeed in life. Their program includes about teaching artists. Does your nonprofit have a culture of wellbeing? How did your organization create it?

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

. “Many of the games at Babycastles don’t fit the traditional definitions of the medium; they veer closer to artistic experiementation than they do to mass-market viability.&# – New York Times. Tracy : When we speak about cultureal spaces, we are really talking about caging and preserving culture.

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Will Your Nonprofit Cease to Exist? Here’s What You Can Do to Make Sure That Doesn’t Happen

Bloomerang

There are ways to take the wonderful work you’re doing and expand your reach to teach more people, heal more people, and enrich more lives. I came up with an idea to mesh my love of weekend crafts fairs and artist open studio visits with my day job. Think about your movement, not the current moment in time. . Way more intense.

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What now?

Museum 2.0

It is why “Women artists” are “finally getting their due.” It is why academia requires only academically trained artists succeed. If you want this field to grow with our society, you will need to reckon with the culture of white supremacy. When I was first starting out, I remember having to teach a Robert Colescott painting.

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5 Fun Corporate Event Team Builders Your Employees Will Love

AccelEvents

Corporate event team builders are an essential way to build a strong team culture and can significantly improve team morale. As company culture evolves, every business needs to pay more attention to growing their team’s cohesiveness and camaraderie. Consider these fun corporate team builders (which can even be done remotely ).

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Lisa Sonora Beam, The Creative Entrepreneur: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

She is a lifelong artist, and was a therapist working in psychiatric hospitals before she made the leap into advertising (long story). Lisa Sonora Beam, The Creative Entrepreneur: How I Have Fun, Do Good Buy art from artists. One of the most fun ways to do good is to buy art and hand crafts directly from artists and artisans.

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