Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. They support artist-driven film and new media storytelling projects (documentary films) that explore aspects of inequality, as well as the organizations and networks that support these documentary projects.

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Arts Grant Culture Fund 73

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In the Broadway musical “Hamilton,” the lead character of Alexander sings about who he and America are meant to be. Are you engaged actively, or passively? You can sponsor and share research that may help with many of the world’s problems. Are you personally actively looking for opportunities to be of greater service?

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Artist Nonprofit Arts Culture 114

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Are your supporters artistic? Do they love music? You could turn seasonal activities like 5k races or walk-a-thons into an engaging event. Help everyone keep track of where they stand by adding fundraising thermometers and live donation updates to your website. Do many of your donors own pets?

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Hosting Practice Fundraising Retention 117

Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

About National Native American Heritage Month Blackfeet (Sihasapa) Indians painting on a hide next to a log building National Native American Heritage Month, also known as National American Indian Heritage Month, was created after decades of activism by many American Indians throughout history.

Awareness 75

Awareness National Causes United States 75

AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

Perhaps you line up a popular motivational speaker or lifestyle influencer to help balance out more serious event content. Providing entertainment for your event will help virtual attendees stay engaged with the platform and prevent them from just tuning out and logging off. A scavenger hunt could be a great team-building activity too!

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Virtual Ideas Online Movie 98

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If this is the case for you and your nonprofit, you’re likely failing to inspire your board members, volunteers, and supporters to help you grow your mission. . In the Broadway musical “Hamilton,” Alexander Hamilton sings about who he and America are meant to be. Are you approaching your work in an active or a passive manner?

Artist 56

Artist Nonprofit Arts America 56

Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

Need help deciding what type of online auction your nonprofit should host? 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. Livestream some 60s music and entertainment.

Ideas 59

Ideas Online Virtual Hosting 59

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. It's not just a personal activity; it's an opportunity to be part of something. To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song.

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Participatory Music Project Video 48

CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Paint and sip events work for any type of organization, artists of all levels, and can easily be adapted for every season. If you’re going the DIY route, reach out to a local artist to lead the class, and stock up on all the necessary supplies. Your artist just has to log in and lead class virtually. No-Shave November.

Ideas 98

Ideas Fundraising Virtual Local 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

As you create or adapt your donor benefits, you may find the list compiled below helpful. It can be helpful to lead a planning process within your own organization that examines your organizational assets and access so you can translate them into benefits. Swag or merch: handmade item by someone helped by your charity.

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Donor Sponsor Accessibility Music 337

Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Take a look at how HikeFor.com is helping Donate Life America raise funds. Help your supporters out and create a Donation-for-Dad gift that gives them a nice printable or ecard telling their dad that a gift was made in his name. Bonus points if the artist does an entire custom flash related to your cause. Outdoor Music Festival.

Ideas 98

Ideas Fundraising Movie National 98

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Networking for Change. --Ivan Boothe, Organizing Rather Than Mobilizing: Using Social Networks for Constituency Building I'm filling in for a panelist on Sunday at the Bioneers Conference for the session , Alternet Presents: Social Media Activism/Web 2.0 CONSUME: Writers read, artists go to galleries, reporters watch the news.

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Burma Activities Active Activism 40

Qgiv

APRIL 27, 2022

Use your network connections with your staff, volunteers, and board members to see if they’d be willing to contribute or can help you get in touch with people who might be able to provide you with enticing prizes. From pet portraits to wedding day portraits, partner with a local artist to raffle off custom art pieces to your donors.

Movie 52

Movie Game Local Gift 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Young, old, poor, rich, conservative, liberal, urban, rural, black, white, brown, red, yellow, gay, straight, preps, goths, rappers, artists, hippies, yuppies… you name it. Beauty is on the eye of the beholder and some people just like the chaos and artistic freedom of MySpace, while some like the neat clean, linear look of Facebook.

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Myspace Teen Facebook Social Network 190

Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests. Lots of institutions--and popular media--have helped change the perception that museums are for old rich people.

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Audience Washington Museum Intergenerational 49

Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

It can be hard trying to get people in your network and community to donate or get involved in fundraising activities. Having an online event registration and payment solution in place helps with more than managing the details, it also helps you accept donations from people who could not attend. Hold a music related event.

Ideas 56

Ideas Fundraising Mashup Registration 56

NonProfit Hub

JUNE 3, 2014

You can, and should, have fun to help your nonprofit raise money. These can help you enjoy the fundraising process and engage the community in a different manner than a straight ask campaign. This trend started to help raise money for Landon, a child in northwest Missouri who suffers from cancer. Stop the Bop.

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Fundraising Missouri Cancer Fun 63

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Using the right virtual events software and also with a little hardware, you can recreate many of your favorite fundraising activities over a livestream to give an experience that’s as close to the real thing as possible while also providing plenty of new and unique benefits. A Gala is a well-known charity fundraising event.

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Virtual Ideas Fundraising Stream 346

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

For the purpose of this blog post I’ll discuss three key ingredients from my thesis that can activate community engagement in museum programs and how we apply this to programs at the MAH: assessing and responding to community assets and needs, building social capital, and inviting active participation.

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Museum Program Participatory Community 49

CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2021

Nonprofits are always looking for unique, creative, and effective fundraising events that will help them to stand out from the crowd. It’s a fun idea that ties in the organization to the activity. Maybe they’re artistic challenges. Interested in how a scavenger hunt might help you but missing the fundraising connection?

Ideas 52

Ideas Fundraising Game Hints 52

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

Arts 74

Arts Social Media Examples Artist 74

Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

Since its founding, Fashion Project has expanded to serve over 500 nonprofits, helping provide valuable funding for disease research, humanitarian aid, sustainability initiatives and disaster relief. Most MCON speakers stay for the entire event and participate in the sessions, activities and parties, even after they’re done speaking.

Chicago 52

Chicago Museum Arts Influence 52

Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

And despite the fact that I've enjoyed being at the museum for 12 hours plus for ten days in a row, I'm quickly realizing that if I want to really get some fun participatory projects going, I need some help. Please help us. Right now, we have monthly family art activities. Our website is navigationally challenged. Family days.

Museum 53

Museum History Participatory Arts 53

Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Live Music Battles Live music battles make for great events because you can find a lot of excellent musical talent who want to get their names out there. Karaoke Karaoke is more than a fun bar night activity—it can be a nonprofit event with multiple revenue streams.

Ideas 98

Ideas Fundraising Movie Classes 98

Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

The whole experience welcomed newcomers while helping them understand what "value" constituted in that community. Dan writes about the explicit and implied "rules" of participation for musicians that create great music both onstage and for the crowd. Opaque funding decisions don''t help anyone. Exhibition proposals.

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Participatory Process Open Proposal 51

NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

Jeanette helps organizations across the country with marketing campaigns by using social media influencers to hold power and inspire others. In this episode, you’ll learn about what a social media influencer is and how they can help your campaign. MUSIC: Sleepy Eyed Thoughts by Bernardus. So let’s jump right in.

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Influence Podcast Campaign Social Media 34

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

With those factors in mind, we’ve put together a list of 52 nonprofit event ideas to help serve as a “vision board” for your organization’s next event. If there are any amateur sporting leagues in your area, a tournament will help you tap into that network and potentially expand your donor pool. Use that to your advantage!

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Ideas People Local Classes 52

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Everything about the event--from the time slot to the tone of the content to the music played--was designed for that audience. It turned out that there were many different kinds of people who were excited about an active, adventurous approach to history. There were twenty-year old hippies. There were grizzled cyclists.

Audience 52

Audience Develop Museum History 52

NonProfit Hub

JUNE 17, 2015

Since its founding, Fashion Project has expanded to serve over 500 nonprofits, helping provide valuable funding for disease research, humanitarian aid, sustainability initiatives and disaster relief. Most MCON speakers stay for the entire event and participate in the sessions, activities and parties, even after they’re done speaking.

Chicago 28

Chicago Museum Arts Influence 28

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Who interprets the interests of the community and decides on the relevant themes and activities for the year? There is a strong community of Oaxacan artists, dancers, and musicians in Live Oak. They had music and dance but no hands-on art activities; we brought the hands-on art experience to their festival.

Teen 20

Teen Museum Voice Collaboration 20

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2006

One of the projects she helped create was an investigation of the impact of images of women in popular music videos on young women and young men. Their findings are captured in a video they made last year with Beyondmedia Education , Respect Me, Don’t Media Me Anne Elizabeth Moore, 35, Chicago, IL What makes her REALLY hot?

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Blogher Chicago Seattle Literacy 40

CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Get your staff, board members, most dedicated donors, and active members of your community involved by asking them to kick off the first peer to peer fundraisers. With the slowing down of things such as mail, this might be a good opportunity to push more of your supporters online to donate and a crowdfunding appeal can help do that.

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Virtual Ideas Fundraising Classes 98

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. Never mind your work experience, what do you really want to be doing that the library can help you accomplish?

Chicago 48

Chicago Library Public Culture 48

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Artist Museum Project Public 39

Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Luckily, we’ve created this list of silent auction basket ideas to help you make sure your auction’s selection of gifts will have your guests rushing to place the highest bid. Advertising your most unique items will help your event stand out. In your videos, remember to describe your items in detail. Set a minimum bid.

Ideas 98

Ideas Gift Movie Game 98

Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Not only do fundraisers help you continue making a difference in people’s lives, but they can also be a great opportunity to build a stronger community within your church. Having fundraisers that happen outside of Sunday morning services helps fund important church activities. Limit Fundraising Appeals during Services.

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Ideas Fundraising Fun Money 98

Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

I am recommending the transcript of Clay Shirky's speech about Gin, Television, and Social Surplus , in which he argues that the next twenty years will be marked by people's slow, incremental, and astoundingly impactful awakening from being passive consumers (of TV) to partly active content creators. But one page! I'm not sure I succeeded.

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Museum Library Participatory Wikipedia 20