Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Certain corporate giving programs like volunteer grants encourage employees to volunteer with nonprofits. As a result, nonprofits not only earn money from the volunteer grants but also gain a new base of dedicated volunteers. Volunteer grants function very similarly to matching gifts. More volunteer sign-ups. New partnerships.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Grant makers and nonprofit professionals are now talking openly about some very painful (and inter-related) issues in philanthropy, such as. I offered to send my friend and colleague a list of key articles and books about this revolution, and it now occurs to me that I can share this list with everyone who is interested.

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MARCH 1, 2023

The timely theme honors women in every community who have devoted their lives and talents to producing art, pursuing truth, and reflecting the human condition decade after decade.” Donate to support the Women Business Collaborative here.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Earlier this month, the Detroit Institute of Arts was "saved" by a voter-approved property tax (called a "millage") in its three surrounding counties. I'm focusing on the community response to the prospect of the millage and the way the public debate reflects broader conversations about the public value of the arts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2009

As someone who spent half her career working for and with arts organizations this news makes me sad: A report yesterday from the USAToday that quotes Bob Lynch , the President of Americans for the Arts estimating that 10,000 arts organizations will close this year, 10% of the total number.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Clothes, books, mugs, calendars, computer accessories, and even gift certificates. Mission : To grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. Mission : To bring more local stories, independent journalism, arts and culture to Americans.

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Qgiv

MAY 1, 2023

Read books written by AAPI authors and visit a museum to learn about significant figures in the AAPI community and their contributions. Exploring Asian and Pacific art is also a great way to delve into AAPI history. You can even visit virtual museums or look up educational resources online. Donate to support their work here.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 22, 2020

The RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) aims to enrich society by sharing powerful ideas and encouraging people to donate. 5 Tips to Increase Donations with the Google Ad Grant. May 20, 2020 | Google Ad Grant If you secure the Google Ad Grant for your nonprofit you need to use it wisely.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You really need zip codes to apply for that grant, but you realize this is an inconvenience for both ticket sellers and patrons. Guest books are hit or miss. Integrated Marketing Arts & Cultural Membership online ticketing ticketing' The front desk data collection conundrum. Have you encountered and of these problems?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 0002

Over the past eight years, Michael has been specifically focused on the Arts and Cultural marketplace and is an active participant in delivering speaking engagements and contributing to trade publication articles. Membership Arts & Cultural stewardship ticketing' Good luck out there.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Not because of the unusually big grants, but because most of them are members of our TechSoup family. A panel of community advisors reviewed the submissions, and chose 25 finalists – all of whom won significant grants. TechSoup Members Among the Top 10 Finalists ($250,000 to $500,000 Grant Winners). 500,000 Grant Winners.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This is the third in a series of posts about Paul Light's book Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations that Innovate Naturally. This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Find the first installment of this series, Developing a Grant Project here , the second installment, Researching government funders here , and the third installment on researching foundations here. Finding the right funders that match your mission, your specific project, and your geographic locale is quite an art. Information Today.

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Qgiv

JULY 3, 2023

While cracking open a book or watching a video are easy ways to learn, attending a Disability Pride event and meeting people with disabilities is also a great way to better understand the history of the Disability Rights Movement! Donate to support their mission here.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

Some of the donations will have twice the impact because of a matching grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They hope individuals will contribute around $17 million this year for books, field trips, art supplies and technology needed by classrooms in low-income areas. Watch the video in H.264 264 on Ourmedia.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

The initial wave of generative-AI examples in the art, music, and written composition spaces has generated a lot of interest within the technology sector. ” There’s a helpful example in her book Thinking in Bets. He finally got there. Author and poker champion Annie Duke calls this “resulting.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

One of the big themes in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , is the importance of experiments and not to frame them as success or failure but as learning. On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Through an intensive two-month training on how to hone their pitch, 20 nonprofits work with mentors from the community to get their story down to the length of a pop song with the ultimate goal of “pitching” to the audience at Tempe Center for the Arts on March 26.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

He was a character invented not long ago to sell bookings on Hotels.com. On the other hand, new grant opportunities came to light, and if you were good at identifying them, you made your case to individual donors. Remember Captain Obvious? If he was on television today, he’d be telling us, “In 2020, the world changed.” No kidding!

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2021

Read More Books. Read More Books. When was the last time you picked up a good book? If you’re creating a book list for this year, add a couple of educational books that will help you learn more about the nonprofit sector so that you can enhance your skills as you read. Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2011

Recently, I bumped into Patricia Martin who just completed a fascinating report on Millennials online engagement with arts organizations and we had a conversation about this topic and the findings from her report. Every year over 7,800 grants are made in the U.S. to fund research in an attempt to address critical social problems.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2015

This time we asked what books folks recommend for summer reading on nonprofits, technology, or nonprofit technology. Chris is particularly interested in how big data affects social change, a central theme in this book. Kyle says, "What I loved about the book was that most of the remedies he puts forth are pretty common sense (e.g.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Instead, Pepsi is using the money for lethal generosity through its Pepsi Refresh Project , a crowdsourced cause marketing effort to give away $20 million in grants to help revamp communities. . The grant categories will be: Health. Arts & Culture. Food & Shelter. The Planet. Neighborhoods. The top 100.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Its funding has skyrocketed as major foundations and technology companies have made multi-million dollar grants and investments in its growth. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. We wrote about that in a recent blog post, Why the Google Art Project is Important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. If this isn't enough, she'll be giving away three free copies of Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel, required reading for trainers.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 15, 2019

Sure, you could pay for some audio books — but there are also a wealth of podcasts that are just as, if not more interesting than said books. Fundraising HayDay is filled with helpful information about fundraising and grants. Epic Episodes Include: What is a Grant and Why Can’t I Pay You When I get It?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. Nonprofit dashboard reports, which communicate critical information in a concise, visual, and more compelling way, are mostly used by board or staff for discussion at internal or private meetings or used as part of reports back to funders for grants. .

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Her career has been dedicated to connecting people and places through performing arts . Kimberly Mitchell. National University. San Francisco Ballet. City of Hope.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 10, 2005

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology More patent office silliness August 10, 2005 OK, this is great. I think what I might be waiting for is for the whole system to fall in on itself. {

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Although it had been in existence for 13 years, the organization had no audited financial statements, had only three board members (including the executive director), was not clear about how donor money was being spent, and had a clear conflict of interest with the executive director promoting personal book sales through the nonprofit.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Close the books and issue financial reports each month. But your entity’s financial situation can change quickly, so you should close the books and then issue the report no later than four weeks after the end of the month. Here are seven tips for making your financial reports more engaging.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 6, 2008

Just owning an independent bookstore is creating a positive force for good, in my book (no pun intended). If the space allows, be a low-cost gathering space for your community to have meetings, readings, exhibit art, post events, etc. Make it easy for people to give away the used books you don't want to purchase from them.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

of art, activism, and academic inquiry on the politically charged. book, Você Vai me Servir ("You Will Serve Me," Annablume Publishers, São Paulo, 2012) is a comparative ethnographic study of relationships between domestic workers and their. David is a cross-disciplinary mediamaker, working at the intersection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The potential for being overwhelmed by technology is magnified in the workplace by something called “ Collaborative Overload ” Rob Cross and Adam Grant in a recent Harvard Business Review article. Learn the Art of Saying No Effectively. There are times when you need to stand firm and protect yourself in order to be productive.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open content business models December 1, 2007 I’m at the Open Translation event, and we’ve just had a great session on open content business models.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 8, 2012

Tale #4: Most recently we had one alumnus promise us his art collection and then went to post an article online about how he strung us along – he actually posted our email exchanges online through a local newspaper where he was a freelancer…. One letter he said something like “I grant you a prophecy” or “I give you the gift of prophecy.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

We Inspire Grant : One year of creative services to one U.S. Bay Area folks can go to the 29 Gifts book launch party in San Francisco November 14th. In the first edition of this partnership, I interviewed Erin O'Connor Jones , the Director of Candidate Services and Managing Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group.

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