Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2012

EngAGE is a nonprofit that changes aging, and the way people think about aging, by transforming senior apartment communities into vibrant centers of learning, wellness and creativity. In 2011, he received the James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award. The NOHO Senior Arts Colony and the Long Beach Senior Arts Colony will open in 2012.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

The busiest day in both 2011 and 2012 is our longtime community program, Free First Friday. Of the 37,361 visitors who attended, 63% came for a community program/event. And finally, and perhaps most interestingly, here's a comparison of Jan-June 2011 vs Jan-June 2012. actively sought out community needs to respond to.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Not only does a hand-written thank you note make a strong impression upon the receiver, but it also makes you a better social media manager because it’s a practice in creative arts – and as all we know, the best social media managers are creative artists. 10) Track the growth and ROI of your online communities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 17, 2011

As many of you know, in addition to blogging and podcasting for myself and others, I'm also a blogging trainer and coach for artists, writers, creative entrepreneurs and do-gooders. I have two blogging workshops coming up, one online and one in San Francisco, that I thought might interest you.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

The whole second half of the article was dedicated to our work: Smaller museums can be especially scrappy in finding ways to connect with the community. Executive Director Nina Simon, who was hired in 2011, says that in the years following the global financial crisis, the facility was struggling. “At The impact was dramatic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

So, let’s get out the nonprofit vote for the nonprofit panels at SXSW 2011 ! Here’s my picks for SXSW Nonprofit Panels: A Conversation About Change Agents Through Social Media Social media is causing a revolution in how information is shared and communities are formed. What artistic problems need a dose of geek teamwork?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2013

We have five open positions in Community Programs and one in Exhibitions. These are unpaid, part-time internships in which you will make a significant contribution to our work, and at the same time, learn a heck of a lot about participatory design and community engagement. Participatory Performing Artist-in-Residence program.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This might include your annual donor appreciation gala, local farmers’ market, or a community festival. A few unique silent auction items to try to acquire include signed sports memorabilia, hard-to-get game tickets, and one-of-a-kind artwork from local artists. Social media. Surprise guests. A twist on an old classic.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

From 2006-2011, I focused almost entirely on #1 and #2, playing with ways to invite visitors to actively participate with professionals to co-create powerful experiences around museum objects. We also had a vision to be a thriving, central gathering place for our community. We invited local artists and community groups to perform.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2013

In the course of the conversation, Devon Smith, a social media consultant from Threespot, started talking the problem of arts organizations that are no longer relevant or useful to their communities. They closed for capricious financial reasons, and they left disappointed artists and participants in their wake. Absolutely.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

2012 Stacey Edgar, Founder, Global Girlfriend listen 2011 Gabriela Masala, Founder, One Love Alliance listen Robert Wolfe, Co-Founder, Crowdrise listen Aneesha Raghunathan, Founder, Hope Line Fashions listen Rachel Cohen, Founder and Executive Director, Hand2Paw listen Kathy LeMay, Founder, Raising Change. Happy listening!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Adobe is working to make a difference in the nonprofit community and recognizes that their software is used by the community for creative expression and social advocacy. The Foundation's community grants program has two focus areas: Arts and Creativity. Youth Services. Youth Voices: Creating with Purpose.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. The result, Our Museum , is an extraordinary funding program with a focus on community participation. didn't mince words. Here are my three top takeaways.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

XKCD has finally updated its Map of Online Communities , showing the size of Facebook relative to its smaller brethren. " Artist Jenny Odell used digital cutouts from Google Maps to create some striking images. Here's a little inspiration: It's one thing to say that Africa is bigger than the U.S., "Farmville is so huge!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

When I came to the museum in May of 2011, we were on the brink of closure financially. At the same time, our community relevance was limited. There was a small, dedicated group of people who knew and loved the museum, and then a larger community that barely knew we existed. Our busiest day more than tripled. Sounds great.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

If you have suggestions for people I should interview in 2011, please let me know in the comments. 2011 Aneesha Raghunathan, Owner, Hope Line Fashions Coming soon! listen read Jessica Prentice, Co-Owner, Three Stone Hearth: A Community Supported Kitchen. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Some creative work is crowdsourced in the form of creative or design contests while others are produced by interactive agencies that gather and vet online communities of designers, artists and producers to be part of a creative development process. Did you do it in less time than any other fundraising effort?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution. Film festival openings. Historical landmark ceremonies. And that's just the fun stuff.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. The project arose from a grant announcement from MetLife Foundation around community engagement and outreach. Lots of inspiring and practical tips below - enjoy! So what did you do next?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

I’m at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! When we first started babycastles, we had no idea there was any kind of community in NY for it. They knew of a few people but it was nothing like the communities on the West Coast. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I arrived in 2011 with the explicit directive to execute a turnaround. Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. Naming our goals and our culture.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. They utilized an existing game engine that is popular among the PC modding community (Half Life 2). Frontiers aims to raise awareness of migration policies through unique gameplay that would be enjoyed by a tight knit gamer community.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to serve the community I love in an institution that has a new strategic plan to become a multi-disciplinary hub for community engagement. The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2015

In 2011, in the name of raising money for the Special Olympics, I participated in the Polar Plunge. Crowdfundraising allowed these organizations an opportunity for their communities to step up and support their missions, all while giving a smaller donor an opportunity to feel like they were a part of something.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

Yesterday, a lovely article came out in the local paper about what we're trying to do to become a thriving community hub. The first part is saying yes and being open to the community." I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. Let me know what you think and what this brings up for you.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

If participation was my mantra from 2007-2011, community has been my mantra since then. Our museum is highly participatory: plenty of opportunities for visitors to contribute, for artists to collaborate, for community members to co-create. Build community. I identify as a community activist.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Small organizations are often best at forming long-term relationships with community members, whereas large organizations can rally lots of participants for a contributory project.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

I'm at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! When we first started babycastles, we had no idea there was any kind of community in NY for it. They knew of a few people but it was nothing like the communities on the West Coast. but there wasn't an offline space for that.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

which followed a very strict formula that frustrated some participants who wanted to be treated like artists, not contributors to a data experiment. But in the case of Tech Virtual, it also caused conflict as I tried to balance being a friendly, caring community manager with being the "boss" of the participatory process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Over the past two years, as part of my work as Visiting Scholar for nonprofits and social media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I have had the opportunity to participate in The Network of Network Funders (NNF) , a community of practice for funders who are intentionally investing in and working through networks.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2013

There are more than enough people in the field who are enthused about active participation, and recent reports like the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy's Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change have sparked field-wide conversations about how philanthropy might more equitably support institutions that serve marginalized communities.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Daum Communication , a leading internet services provider in Korea offers a map service with a streetview option, much like Google Maps does in the States. As of Febuary 2011 however, they have added a feature that goes a step beyond: streetview history. Interactive artist, Jonathan Harris is an amazing story teller. "

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Back in 2011, I started collecting all the emails that nonprofits sent me during the month of December and reviewed what was in my inbox. Be sure to check out 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 too. You’re invited to our Community Candle Lighting on Wed., Coastal Community Foundation’s Giving News: December 2015.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

with geeks, artists, and civil society activists. Open Data in Aid Transparency — The organizers for this workshop, which will be held in Berlin on September 28 and 29, 2011, are OpenAid , Open Knowledge Foundation Germany , the Open Data Network , and the Böll Foundation.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2010

One of the attractions for this collaboration was NYSCI’s diverse audience, many of whom were not part of the current Maker Faire community. We also met with key members of the maker community in New York and nationally. This was the beginning of what I think was one of the primary benefits of Maker Faire to NYSCI.

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