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JUNE 9, 2014

Tracy has been a frequent presenter on CRM selection/implementation and technology strategy at venues including NTEN''s Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), Money for Our Movements, the San Francisco Foundation Center, and the Nonprofit Boot Camp.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

ON PROCESSING NEGATIVITY// Jon Moscone (Artistic Director of CalShakes and son of the late San Francisco mayor George Moscone) talked about thinking politically about how we respond to criticism and to praise. Jon implored us to think more like activists and less like artists. There is motion. There is joy.

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JANUARY 19, 2011

The Juicy Blogging e-course (Feb 2-23) and Blogging for Writers at the Writing Salon in San Francisco (January 29). If you have suggestions for people I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DO com. Show Notes I've got two blogging workshops coming up.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 8, 2021

Use Case Example: Like many schools, Dalhousie University’s Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship is presenting a professional development workshop series, hosting online workshops that engage students and attendees on issues like entrepreneurship, tackling climate change, pitching ideas, and boosting skills for artists.

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AccelEvents

MARCH 8, 2021

Use Case Example: Like many schools, Dalhousie University’s Norman Newman Centre for Entrepreneurship is presenting a professional development workshop series, hosting online workshops that engage students and attendees on issues like entrepreneurship, tackling climate change, pitching ideas, and boosting skills for artists.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (which she directs) teamed up with the San Francisco Planning Department and the Knight Foundation to host the Market Street Prototyping Festival. Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2012

All winners will be announced on March 28 at an awards ceremony and screening party in San Francisco and on streamed to the web. Kirthi Nath is the founder of Cinemagical Media , a conscious media company that produces artistic, heart-based videos. Faculty at the Art Institute of California - San Francisco.

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JANUARY 31, 2012

Chalk up my vote for 2011’s “Best Debut Artist” and “Best Supporting Actor.”. Through this initiative, we are supporting a group of dynamic, next-generation leaders in the social justice field in the San Francisco Bay Area as they retool their organizations for greater impact.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 2, 2012

This recent holiday season, Benetech began supporting an innovative organization that helps people with disabilities develop their creative abilities and become working artists. During our holiday party, we displayed thirty pieces of art provided by Creativity Explored , a San Francisco-based nonprofit arts organization.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

About a year ago, I came across David Sibbet’s book, “ Visual Meetings ” I have known of his work for years, but always thought graphic recording was for “real artists who can draw.’ Rachel, a virtuoso technologist and artist, used a drawing tablet and Sketchbook pro.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

My favorite-thing-of-the-week award goes to Toronto artist Gil Martinez for this art installation he designed to help celebrate the launch of TechSoup Canada. TechSoup/CompuMentor's 22-year history is documented through four mixed-media panels and one large mural. Tools Using the Web and Internet.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2013

Participatory Performing Artist-in-Residence program. This is a new program we created with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to enable performing artists to develop work at the MAH that invites active audience participation. and I have always wanted to find ways to invite them in.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Bay Area folks can go to the 29 Gifts book launch party in San Francisco November 14th. We Inspire Grant : One year of creative services to one U.S. nonprofit (valued up to $75,000 ). If you missed my friend Cami Walker of 29 Gifts on the Today Show , you can watch it online.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

With that in mind, Zero1's community engagement manager Danielle Siembieda-Gribben organized HackFlux : a weekend hackathon bringing together a mix of coders, developers, designers, artists, and thinkers this past June. The goals of the hackathon were twofold: To build a community around mobile development and art.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 27, 2009

I liked this guest post on Beth's Blog by Rebecca Krause, How Can Artists Inspire Service in Community? Great list of Hunger Twitterers on Tyson Hunger Relief New Organizing Institute is putting on a New Media Training for Nonprofits in San Francisco Oct 5th and 6th.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Our Silver Prize — a free one-year membership to Adobe Creative Cloud — goes to Yerba Buena Gardens Festival in San Francisco, California. Thanks to TechSoup, we're able to save time and money, putting more of our budget and efforts toward the artists our audiences want to see on stage." Thank you TechSoup!"

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Organizer, Bakesale for Japan listen Naomi Natale, Founding Artist, One Million Bones listen Halle Butvin, Founder and Director, One Mango Tree listen Carinne Brody, Doctoral Candidate in Public Health at UC Berkeley. Author, The Generosity Plan listen Samin Nosrat, Cook, Teacher, Writer, Accidental Activist. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

It was sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation, Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Grants for the Arts, and the Koret Foundation. The Joe Goode Dance Company spoke about the challenges of getting an artistic director to Tweet. One of the things they discovered is that their audience wants to hear from the artists.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

They present masterpieces by white male artists and innovations by white male scientists. When non-white stories are told, they are always flagged as such--an exhibition of Islamist scientific inventions or women pioneers or African-American artists. Not as humans, or artists, or scientists, or dancers.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Jamela Robinson lives in San Francisco and is so personable that people like to just chat with her on the phone. In honor of Customer Service Week, we'd like to shine the spotlight on three Client Services team members who might just answer your phone call: Jamela Robinson, Bob Chase, and Gina Frassetto.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 6, 2008

Last week I announced a new weekly feature that I'm trying out on Have Fun * Do Good, Ask Britt , where you send in questions related to career design for artists and activists, and I'll do my best to answer them. I encourage you to add on to my answers in the comments. Organize other local businesses. Donate to your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. What Should Artists and Arts Organization???s

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Marisa Handler, Author, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Listen Read Cami Walker, Founder, 29-Day Giving Challenge Listen Read Marianne Manilov, National Team Leader, The Engage Network Listen Read Favianna Rodriguez, Political Digital Artist and Printmaker. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2005

Civic Ventures , a San Francisco nonprofit group, will award 5 Americans over 60, whose work has fostered significant social innovation, $100,000 to further their work. Not only does the Market give folk art collector folks an opportunity to see and buy work from all over the world, the coolest thing is what it means for the artists.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Marisa Handler, author, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Listen Read Cami Walker, Founder, 29-Day Giving Challenge Listen Read Marianne Manilov, National Team Leader, The Engage Network Listen Read Favianna Rodriguez, Political Digital Artist and Printmaker. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2006

Last Sunday each of us wrote a post to answer the question, “Who is your favorite artist (visual, dancer, performer, writer or musician) and why?” Our programming is woven across disciplines at California College of the Arts and serves the diverse populations of the San Francisco Bay Area." Here is Beth's post and here is mine.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Cary Creative Center in North Carolina is an upcycling nonprofit that provides used artistic materials to people. San-Francisco-based RE-volv raises awareness about solar energy through its community-based solar projects and outreach programs across the U.S. Cary Creative Center — Third-Place Winner. " RE-Volv.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. The Archives of American Art has pinboards for notable artists journals and Facial hair of note - "Misplace your paintbrush? The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has a Pinterest Board with items for sale in the museum store. Just use your beard!".

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2009

One of my moments of obligation came during the Green Festival in San Francisco in the fall of 2002. At the time, I was a program director for an arts education program and a facilitator of career counseling workshops for artists. The key is to turn these moments of opportunity into concrete action."

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Marisa Handler, author, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Listen Read Cami Walker, Founder, 29-Day Giving Challenge Listen Read Marianne Manilov, National Team Leader, The Engage Network Listen Read Favianna Rodriguez, Political Digital Artist and Printmaker. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2004

In a decision released December 29th , the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco dismissed Mattel's appeal of the summary judgment of the Los Angeles federal district court regarding the creation and sale of photographs of naked Barbie dolls in provocative postures and being attacked by kitchen appliances by artist Tom Forsythe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

Heather Gold , a performance artist/stand up comedienne Jewish lesbian, who has worked in Silcon Valley and Hollywood, entertained us. You would think that I'm the only Jew in San Francisco who isn't a budhist. She made some hilarious comparisons between LA and Silcon Valley. In Silicon Valley, you can't.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Same goes for the San Francisco Zoo , which often tweets out visitors' cute photos taken at the zoo. The Brooklyn Museum has an open call for artists who want to use Twitter to communicate with 1stfan members , but you don't need to be an artist to create quality content on Twitter. What would fit there?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Prior to Inner City Advisors, Jose served as the development director for five years at the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA), a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that provides microenterprise business technical assistance and neighborhood planning services to small businesses. They're artists so they think big.

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JULY 31, 2009

For me, it was interesting because living in San Francisco, the Tenderloin fascinates me. I think it fascinates a lot of people in San Francisco because it's almost like this zip code in the middle of the city right next to Nob Hill, which is a very affluent area. The Tenderloin has a lot of issues, to say the least.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

A few weeks ago, I gathered a group of creative folks in San Francisco and asked them, "what makes a social venue feel welcoming and friendly to you?" To my surprise, secrecy and exclusivity were at the top of the list. One effused about the bar Bourbon and Branch , where you need a secret code word to gain entry.

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