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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

American Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis is considered the first woman of Native American and African descent to achieve international fame as a sculptor at a time when artists of color were hardly celebrated and slavery was still legal. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

We experimented with many different forms of visitor participation throughout the building, trying to balance social and individual, text-based and artistic, cerebral and silly. interracial marriage, keeping a family together while homeless) and others are more immediate (i.e. Some are conceptual (i.e. making a special gift).

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Designing for Good: The Best of Nonprofit Designs Episode #2

Connection Cafe

Strong and faithful logo design by crazy talented artist Eric Maniscalco for caninecrusadefoundation.org ( @CanineCrusadeNY ). Funky interactive by Nice & Serious ( @niceandserious ) advocating affordable UK housing and preventing homelessness for Shelter.org.uk ( @Shelter ). See “before” website design via Wayback Machine.

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Strategies to Tell if Your Nonprofit Content Marketing is Hurting or Helping

Bloomerang

Consider including a question in your next survey asking your peeps who they follow (social media), listen to (podcasts; news media), read (magazines, blogs, newsletters) or admire (if you have some VIPs you might be able to recruit, include these as options). Ask via survey. Conduct an interview with a trusted expert. Closing Thoughts.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment." Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? I just want to dispel the myth that we are not activists and that we are not artists.

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