Forum One

MARCH 23, 2023

Museums are magical places, where history, culture, art, and science seem to come to life. For a major dose of inspiration, take a look at what a number of our cultural institution and museum clients are doing to push the needle on digital experiences and spark engagement in the arts & culture sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Source: National Arts Index It's at times like these -- in the midst of an extended recession and the wake of the tragedy in Haiti -- that the role of funding arts in society may be called into question. After all, funding for the arts (theater, dance, music, museums etc.) Many may be asking, therefore, “Why fund the arts?”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It may be worth documenting these patterns once you notice them, especially if a lot of different people have access to update parts of the site. You don’t need to go all-out creating a design system with code samples—even a living document with screenshots and a few notes on how each pattern is used would help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

My role was to document the event and collect stories. The Art of Story Capture. Complete documentation can be found on the Day of Service wiki. My role was to document the [.] Approximately 100 volunteers participated in service activities. Event 360 was a sponsor for the Day of Service.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 7, 2012

Pinterest allows us--requires us, really--to document a part of our creative process openly on the web. Loosely formatted blogs to document progress. I'm curious how other organizations are publicly documenting and sharing creative process. Project coordination on wikis.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2023

American Jazz Museum Best Arts Website Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room and Gem Theater.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

million pages of documents in the Freedmen’s Bureau archive, the largest transcription project ever undertaken by the Smithsonian. If you would like to help transcribe the remaining documents, please visit the Smithsonian Transcription Center. To date, more than 400,000 pages of records have been transcribed. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Award Museum Kansas City Drupal 90

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Even worse, the first documented case of sexual harassment occurred in Horizon Worlds – the VR social platform created by Facebook now in Beta. Digital goods can range from digital art that you can buy, sell, and collect on OpenSea to accessories for your avatar in the metaverse.

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.orgSource

AUGUST 14, 2023

ChatGPT is a state-of-the-art NLP model that can comprehend text and generate coherent responses. Their knowledge universe includes: Common Crawl (a nonprofit organization that crawls the web and offers its archives, which contain petabyes of data, to the public), Wikipedia, articles, books, and documents of all kinds.

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Language Model Mongolia Training 221

Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

By then, recorded music was no longer just the document of a performance—it was a composite of style, hooks, and production techniques, an extension of a popular personality’s image within a current sound. Are the products created via such a process of worse, better, or equivalent quality as traditional art products? It''s complicated.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

This is a time of accessible AI—anyone with an internet connection can use state-of-the-art tools to help with tasks like brainstorming ideas, generating art, and drafting documents. Ease of access means that with more people using these systems, the potential impact of unethical use grows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

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. I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach.

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Arts Social Media Examples Artist 74

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

For some, it might seem more like an art than a science, as there is confusion about the process. Are you addressing each of these components in your narrative (and attachment documentation)? For those familiar with the process, developing an application for any type of financial support (grants, corporate sponsorship , contract, etc.)

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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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Canada Arts San Francisco Artist 43

Candid

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

As has been the case for some time, science and health organizations have the highest overall median executive compensation at $196K, while religious institutions ($65K), animal-related organizations ($86K), and the arts ($92K) continue to have some of the lowest overall executive compensation. .

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

My role was to document the event and collect stories. The Art of Story Capture I focused on shadowing Mark and Shawn and asked them questions about their practice of story capture. Complete documentation can be found on the Day of Service wiki. Approximately 100 volunteers participated in service activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2018

At the same time, many in the group, the Leap Ambassadors Community , were passionate about meeting the needs of small nonprofits, such as youth development programs, environmental programs, churches, arts programs, and others. Should the document focus only on nonprofits that hope to get larger?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

(NSD) aimed to improve the voting experience and increase civic engagement using public art. Working with the Knight Foundation, Mural Arts, Committee of Seventy and other key nonprofit partners, HMC created a completely new way to look at, and impact, voter turnout and experience here in Philadelphia.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. I was assigned to the art school to track art classes and enrollments, and to work on reporting and making sure records were polished and current. When I look back, this was one of the most sophisticated fundraising programs in Texas!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

OdysseyWorks is a collective that makes immersive art experiences for one person at a time. OdysseyWorks' projects get to the heart of the fiercest debates in the arts today. Is it elitist to present art that may be dislocating or foreign? You have to generalize. But what if you only had an audience of one?

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Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 21, 2012

It's an art. Document your data entry standards, policies, and procedures before training so users are taught to do things the right way from the start. I discussed training at a high level on page 13 of this chapter from CASE's Handbook of Institutional Advancement. Not everyone can train. Create cheat sheets for common tasks.

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Volunteer Hub

JULY 26, 2021

With the expansion came a new welcome center, four permanent galleries, two changing exhibition galleries, a research library and café, a 187-seat state-of-the-art performance theater, and a 175-seat outdoor amphitheater.

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Houston Museum Volunteer Help 98

Classy

APRIL 9, 2021

Keep Commonly Asked-For Documents Organized. In addition to specific grant questions, many applications will ask for other documents related to your nonprofit. Hemingway Editor , an app that scores the readability of documents and offers suggestions for improvement. Download Now: The Digital Marketing Checklist.

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Proposal Grant Effective Language 83

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

Wikipedia Loves Art, Take One The first version of Wikipedia Loves Art first took place in February 2009. Museums used these thematic lists to develop scavenger hunt lists to distribute to participants so that they might find art objects to illustrate Wikipedia topics like "Roman architecture" or "mask."

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Reasonable accommodations for equity in participating, such as the provision of Sign Language interpreters or Braille documents, or more frequent or longer breaks during meetings, depending on individual need. Integrate elements of creativity and art: some grantmakers include music, poetry, and art.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 12, 2021

Nonprofits strive to make the world a better place in a variety of sectors, from the arts to the environment to societal and social equality. Mission statements are external documents, which means that they are written with an outside audience in mind. Write for Your Audience.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For example, some direct costs associated with an afterschool program at a local community center include food for snacks, supplies for arts and crafts, sports equipment for outdoor activities, and the costs of the staff members providing the programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

These strategies are helping community foundations experiment, iterate and implement best practices when it comes to hosting Giving Days as well as document and spread those practices to others in the Network. Collaboration among nonprofits is key; Miami Arts Brigade was a huge testament to that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. A tag is a user???s s collection.

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Twenty Hats

DECEMBER 28, 2021

We strategize to demonstrate volunteer impact, or obtain adequate technology, or train ourselves and our co-workers on the art of volunteer management. They documented the volunteers’ takeaways and then shared them on social media, building a following through the insights of the volunteers.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Required documents: To obtain grants, you need proof of your nonprofit status or fiscal sponsor. For instance, there may be several nonprofits that offer art programs for secondary school students, but you are one of the few entities that serve adults 18 years and older. Senior citizens? In what zip codes do they live?

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Professional Leadership Develop Proposal 72

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Orchestras and Social Media Survey View more documents from Marc van Bree. Orchestras and Social Media Survey View more documents from Marc van Bree. Tags: Art Sector Arts & Technology. Note from Beth: One question that I get asked at almost every workshop is about budget. What are the returns? What are the.

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Social Media Survey Media Social 92

Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

Facilitating a high-impact, memorable retreat is an art and the best facilitators are master artists. Facilitators should also provide some type of management tool or dashboard to manage retreat outcomes and make sure it’s not some cheesy Word document that squishes all the action plans into a few columns. What’s next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2006

Find your peers who are in a similar situation and it doesn't have to be another arts organization. Documentation of your project is important and get it disseminated so other people can benefit from your knowledge. Find your peers and share knowledge." " Be aware of vendor-driven solutions. The outcomes are important.

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Technology Arts Project Literacy 50

NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

CoP organizers Praan Misir ( CommBuild ) and Brett Ashley Crawford ( Arts Nonprofits ) and Tech Club organizers Regina Walton ( SFTech4Good ), Paula Jones ( NCTech4Good ), and Chad Leaman and Elijah van der Giessen (both from NetSquared Vancouver ) took time out to deliver the presentation. Leave a comment below!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2009

  I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts for 12 years on a range of arts and technology programs, including a network for artists called Arts Wire. .  The arts community is so powerful in telling stories. Art grabs people who don’t necessarily read the local paper. Do what we do. Post blogs.

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Artist Service Community Arts 96

Neon CRM

JUNE 20, 2023

This can range from donations of food and clothing to event space, legal services, and property and art. Because they’re expensive, these are usually only used for donations of jewelry, art, real estate, or other major in-kind contributions. Very broadly, in-kind donations are non-monetary contributions to your organization.

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