The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

From arts to business, science to civil services, Latinos have been underlying forces driving America’s progress. Artistic Appreciation: Display the art, music, and literature of Latino artists. These pages can host videos and images and narrate the artists’ stories.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Artistic & Culinary Experiences Both art and food have a way of transcending differences, removing barriers, and rallying diverse groups around a common cause. Consider putting out a call for artists in the months leading up to the event date and provide a theme for the works.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Arts and cultural organizations are the sources of some of our favorite DipJar stories. Along the way, there have been all kinds of opportunities and experiences. Arts, culture, and performance are all personal passions for her. At the college level, The Gamm offers a paid fellowship for emerging artists of color.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 29, 2024

As the weather warms and people crave sunshine, consider stepping out of the traditional banquet hall and embracing the season’s potential for a memorable and impactful fundraising event experiences. You can tap into the season’s natural energy to create a truly unique and engaging experience for attendees. Why Go Outside?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Are you engaged actively, or passively? If you’re any type of arts organization , you can expand to online offerings at accessible price points. You can take art to the schools or bring students to your art. Are you personally actively looking for opportunities to be of greater service? . — Seth Godin.

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NTEN

AUGUST 26, 2021

These are all pretty much individual activities. Would you consider yourself a team player or a solo artist? If you had asked 13-year old Michelle what she wanted to be, she would have said an artist, hands down. That was before one of my art teachers in middle school told me how “hard” it was to be an artist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Click here to listen to a very brief interview Over the weekend, I attended the Technology in the Arts Conference in Pittsburgh where artist and activist Faith Ringgold was one of the keynote speakers. " I had a chance to do a quick video interview with her about her thoughts on women artists. They are brilliant!

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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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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. We encouraged teams to think like artists, not researchers. Every active research method is an intervention. How do you measure that?

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

It’s been a rough couple years for arts-based nonprofits. As pandemic aid has run out without patrons returning in pre-2020 numbers, many arts nonprofit across the country have had to shrink programming, cut staff, or close altogether. This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

We’ve compiled a list of various online auction ideas divided into the following categories: Simple Themed Online Auctions Online Auctions For the Whole Family Online Auctions with an At-home Activity. To plan an online fundraising auction, you’ll need to finalize a couple of logistics: Auction items or experiences.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

Nonprofit arts organization Zero1 needed a way to help people make sense of its biennial, Seeking Silicon Valley, scheduled for September 2012. As recently noted by Frank Barry of Blackbaud, technology plays a key role as the art and culture sector engages its audience. To tackle the challenge, Zero1 decided to create an app.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

While the demands of each activity may vary, the advancement is a step-by-step process. Situates the organization within the community Utilizing both demographic and neighborhood data, you position your organization as an active part of the service-delivery system. Do you serve K-12 students? The BIPOC or LGBTQ communities?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

Stacey has been collaborating with local artists to produce a series of content-rich events that invite visitors to participate in a range of hands-on activities. Instead, Stacey thought, why not make the feedback experience an activity unto itself? It invited visitors to memorialize their experience.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2015

Thankfully, thousands of movements are successfully activating Millennial cause enthusiasts, converting them into donors , volunteers and outspoken advocates for a cause. MCON is an annual event that highlights these movements and proves how the Millennial generation is actively shaping our communities and world.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). Beck talks about this in the context of learning to play music as a young artist. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

Women Center Stage has launched women artists' work like Iris Bahr, who wrote and performed " Dai " at the festival, and is now performing her piece on Culture Project's main stage, and Staceyann Chin , who did a workshop of, "Border/Clash" as part of the Women Center Stage festival, and went on to produce fuller productions of the piece.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2017

The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History keeps growing and experimenting in our quest to build a stronger, more connected community. The Exhibitions Catalyst will lead the way in bringing together artists and diverse partners in the development of powerful exhibitions. We are dreaming big, reaching out, and going deep.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Earlier this fall, I read this headline: "Stanford study: Participation in a cultural activity may reduce prejudice." I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. I wanted to know more. Direct questioning.

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Achieve

JANUARY 18, 2023

Between exciting auctions and marathon events, there are several opportunities to provide a memorable experience for your supporters, all while driving engagement. For example, your virtual event live stream can incorporate closed captioning for those with hearing disabilities, allowing them to actively follow along and feel included. .

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

Earlier in 2013, I was amazed to visit one of the new “Studio” spaces at the Denver Art Museum. The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. Some community artists even helped install the space.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 0002

With over 15 years of nonprofit industry experience, Michael has worked with nonprofit customers across North America and the United Kingdom to implement full-scale projects and business process improvement projects. Actively Manage Your Data. Membership Arts & Cultural stewardship ticketing' Good luck out there.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. There were times when coordinating a fire art festival while researching social capital theory made me want to burn my computer. Both emphasize museums reaching out into the community to support, understand and experience what the community is already doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Note From Beth: Yesterday, I attended a convening called “ Beyond Dynamic Adaptability ” for arts organizations about cultural participation in the arts. Good Pitch is an effort that brings documentary filmmakers together with a wide range of partners in distribution, financing and outreach for activism.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

As of May 2, I will be the executive director of the Museum of Art & History at McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, CA (here's the press release ). Because of the increased workload I expect in the months to come, as well as the likely possibility that we will start a Museum of Art & History blog, I'm lowering my Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

"The arts are future-making." I wrote this down when Deborah Cullinan said it at a meeting of arts leaders about a year ago. Deborah''s vision for the arts leading the way to stronger future inspired me. But I couldn''t fully imagine how a museum or an arts center could embody it. A fitness trail for urban life.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

With the majority of daily activities taking place over the web, it’s no surprise that we’ve also observed a rise in virtual fundraising. Choose a day and actively encourage donations and sharing through all your social media channels, such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Snapchat. What will not have a good ROI?

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

These dollars are spent on everything from jewelry and cards, to consumer electronics and personal experiences. As much as possible, we encourage you to consider how you can replicate your fundraising ideas online, promote digital giving, or adjust to provide individually-delivered experiences and prizes for donors. Spread the Love….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

blog and executive director, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History , told me about this amazing and fun co-created card game to help you think about self-care activities called the The Space Deck. RELATIONAL : opening, connecting and relating to the experiences of others.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Technology in the Arts recently released an excellent report on copyright law. The report is intended primarily for arts and performance organizations, but it has a lot of material that's useful to anyone who works with online media, including great summaries of what is and isn't covered under public domain and fair use.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

For the past two years, I''ve been working on a project to activate the concrete space adjacent to our museum as a vibrant, community plaza. We are hiring a temporary contract curator to activate the plaza this summer with 25+ cultural events. How do you experiment and course-correct as people wear their own paths into the space?

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

Museum of Contemporary Art. in Chicago to experience MCON in person and over 20,000 people will stream the event online. National Geographic CEO Gary Knell will bring decades of media experience to the stage where he’ll discuss the future of National Geographic and how similar publications can shape education.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

One of the things people are missing is the shared experience of a live concert. By streaming a show as an event, or as part of a larger virtual event, can be a valuable experience for your attendees. . A scavenger hunt could be a great team-building activity too! Mindfulness Activities. Real-time Illustrations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

It is an art form completely dependent upon the creative potential of each audience member in relation to the events on stage. Without a receiver, there is no experience. Over a month ago I told Emily from the Nonprofit Blog Exchange that I would participate in the most recent exchange and write about The Artful Manager.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2013

I''ve followed Wright''s work for years because of his unique perspective on the potential for game-players to be game-makers - in other words, to co-create the gaming experience. Negotiated agency" strikes me as a really useful framework in which to talk about visitor/audience participation in the arts. Patrons clap between movements.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Dear friends, We're about a month from the deadline to apply for MuseumCamp 2017 at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). A month before MuseumCamp, the MAH is opening a new exhibition, Lost Childhoods , co-developed with foster youth, youth advocates, and artists in our community. Dive into co-creative project design.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

Two weeks ago, Roberto Bedoya asked several arts bloggers, including me, to write a post reflecting on Whiteness and its implications for the arts. I am in no way an expert in issues related to racial and ethnic representation in the arts. They present masterpieces by white male artists and innovations by white male scientists.

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