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Celebrate, Educate, and Fundraise: Planning Winning AAPI Heritage Month Events

The Modern Nonprofit

Track participation data to inform future outreach efforts. Curate an exhibit of paintings, photographs, sculptures or crafts by AAPI artists. Artists, writers, and cultural leaders. Offer childcare, wheelchair access, multi-lingual materials, etc. Incorporate interactive elements that allow attendees to directly participate.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The above slide show was created based on all the information I gathered from my network below. 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. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. Artist Blogs.

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Can Public Art Increase Civic Participation?

Connection Cafe

Over the course of our 24-week voter engagement campaign, NSD hired 60 artists to create 60 “Vote Here/Vote Aqui” signs. The artists came from more than 20 different Philadelphia neighborhoods. Involve Artists from the Very Beginning. The artists who participated felt a greater sense of connection to their communities.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

It’s not solely about how museums can serve communities but rather what are the communities’ resources, knowledge and interests that can inform museum practice? Museum programs can be designed to further bond similar groups together such as families and friends in family workshops such as the Dallas Museum of Art’s First Tuesdays.

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Inclusive Fundraising: Taking Pride Month Support to New Heights

The Modern Nonprofit

This collaboration can provide mutual benefits for both your organization and the LGBTQ+ organizations, as you can share resources and amplify each other’s voices. Here are some ideas to get you started: Host an educational event or workshop : Why not organize events that teach your community about LGBTQ+ history, rights, and issues?

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Joint Statement from Museum Bloggers and Colleagues on Ferguson and Related Events

Museum 2.0

Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. And pop culture icons, from basketball players to rock stars , are making highly visible commentary with their clothes and voices. They are developing information on how to conduct community conversations on race. Where do museums fit in?

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Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

Museum 2.0

Had we held onto an authority voice rather than presenting ourselves as individuals engaged in the project, people would not have been willing to weather the storms with us. If I ran a poetry or drawing workshop, we wouldn't critique participants' ideas for poems or drawings. When we changed something, we were changing it on people.

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