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

The Modern Nonprofit

AAPI Cuisines Around the World – Highlight the diversity of AAPI food cultures with cooking demos, food samples, or restaurant partnerships. You can even invite attendees to join in group dances or lessons to create an interactive experience. Curate an exhibit of paintings, photographs, sculptures or crafts by AAPI artists.

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40+ Unforgettable Live Auction Items that Sell Well

Bloomerang

Concert tickets Buying concert tickets has become like a competitive sport, as passionate fans flood ticket platforms to see their favorite artist live. For example, if your town is known for gorgeous cherry blossom trees, offering paintings with these trees by a local artist can inspire bidding.

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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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Guest Post: Weaving Community Collaborations into Permanent Installations at the Denver Art Museum

Museum 2.0

As an educator, I know that lessons learned and questions raised from this experience will substantively shift how I think about and act upon our relationship with our local creative community moving forward. Community artists gave their honest feedback, and we crafted a display based on these discussions and their contributions.

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Art Brings People Together: Measuring the Power of Social Bridging

Museum 2.0

My biggest question for these social psychologists is this: how do we apply their lessons to our work? While this would be difficult to do in a museum en masse, it could certainly be done with a small representative sample of visitors. I realize that I may sound like a college freshman who just discovered Psych 101, but heck.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Access to password-protected content like checklists for camping with kids or sample lesson plans for outdoor educators. Sometimes a nonprofit has access to world-class chefs, celebrities, artists, or architects or well-known lawmakers. Free access to trainings or programs that normally have a fee. Touch the work.

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30 Virtual and Hybrid Event Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Simply offer ticket sales online, then send your guests a care package of the beverages to be sampled on the day of the event. For added suspense, you may send out a mystery box with a variety of beverages to sample. Alcoholic beverage tastings are frequently held as special events and are surprisingly simple to create online.

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