Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Given the lack of established models, there will undoubtedly be some unanticipated curves ahead. and Humanity Cash , a tech venture focused on alternative digital currencies. Given this history, it is unsurprising that interest in alternative currency was rekindled in the wake of the Great Recession.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last week, I finally watched The Art of the Steal , an arresting documentary on the controversy around the evolution of the Barnes Foundation from a suburban educational art facility to a major urban art museum (to open in May 2012). Unlike most art collections, Barnes' art was neither exclusively private nor a public museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. They hired me and it turned into a decade of learning and teaching others (artists, arts organizations, and arts educators) how to integrate this technology into their work and organizations. I learned an incredible amount from collaborating with arts teachers.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. Want some waffles with your art? Community science workshops.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I''m glad to see coverage about art museums involving visitors in exhibitions. Yes, community involvement is at the heart of our shifted, successful business model. I struggled to present my own alternative frame ("community involvement"). The metaphor for traditional art museums is the temple. It''s not cheap.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

The nonprofit business model is increasingly vulnerable to the volatility of the nonprofit marketplace and broad social, political, economic, and technological trends. Notwithstanding countless initiatives and grants to address this dilemma, the business model problem remains.

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BoardAssist

JULY 30, 2014

Requires that the audit committee consider alternative transactions and determine that the transaction is fair, reasonable, and in the best interest of the nonprofit as a prerequisite for approval. . model conflict of interest policy. model whistleblower policy. NYS Attorney General. Nixon Peabody.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 23, 2023

Consider showcasing a particular small business’s offerings by filling a basket with their products, such as a craft-themed basket highlighting an art supply store or a home improvement basket of items from a locally owned hardware store. Community spotlight. Rec and leisure. Fortunately, there are a number of solutions available.

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Whole Whale

MAY 16, 2022

These types of tools are mostly built on top of GPT3 (General Pre-Trained Transformer) which is a machine learning platform that enables developers to train and deploy models that perform a variety of natural language processing tasks. Helps you edit and revise your work by suggesting alternative phrasing and word choices.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2018

Berkshire Museum officials argue that art is not core to their institution going forward and that they are therefore deaccessioning material that is no longer relevant to their mission. By deaccessioning the most valuable art in their collection, the Berkshire Museum is transferring valued public assets into private hands.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Last month, I had the good fortune to join a few brilliant people for a " Dinner-vention " about the future of the arts in America. 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.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2013

These dramatic changes in the marketplace have broad implications for organizational governance and for the viability of the conventional nonprofit business model. Today’s storm is unlike those of past economic downturns in both scale and duration. A number of long-standing organizations have fallen by the wayside.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history. We often talk about museums as leaders in providing substantive, essential alternatives to formal schooling.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2015

Strategy is knowing your organization’s business model. There are a number of good resources out there for mapping your organization’s business model, including The Business Model Canvas. Nonprofits face competition not only from other nonprofits or businesses but from alternative ways individuals could meet their needs.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 1, 2017

An L3C, though, is a hybrid of an LLC and nonprofit business model, which is where an organization operates to benefit the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Other examples have included farmers’ markets, newspapers, law groups and art centers. Can I start an L3C? Should I start an L3C? All in all….

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2022

In the years before COVID, smaller organizations frustrated by the effort and expense of a big blowout event have always sought creative alternatives to formal, sit-down galas. For example, a small art museum held an? art auction ?this The advantage of this model for the museum was threefold: .

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

Let's say your organization has a mission to increase X (art, healthy kids, clean water, community cohesiveness, etc.). On the other hand, in onstage mode, we could present more highly visible opportunities for people to be empowered and connected through art and history.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Last month, I met an artist who was part of a group that created a renegade podcast tour for the Portland Art Museum. But I also found myself wondering if this imagined set of interpretations for the art was any more compelling or useful than any other imagined set of interpretations. They model the requested visitor contributions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 23, 2018

The implementation of innovation and adaptability is a business model that should not only be accepted but embraced by the third sector and its donors (members). Many member-based organizations “are struggling to maintain membership, generate and increase participation, attract volunteers, and compete with alternative service offerings.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2014

They arbitrated replicas, reproductions, models, and props. While many of their examples came from history and natural science, one of my favorite examples is from art. Whose soul is stamped on a work of art? And when it comes to art, a forced focus on "the real thing" can mean less access to cultural artifacts.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

Despite having modeled institutionalized sharing for literally centuries ( hello, public libraries! ) Sharing companies/platforms are just one place alternatives abound and money is flowing and good is getting done. There are some great examples of social good from innovative models in the sharing economy.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Nonprofits Live provided a more robust and interactive alternative to the traditional webinar. Tom Dawkins , Co-Founder, StartSomeGood : StartSomeGood is a "crowdfunding" platform, that attempts to bring many of the features Kickstarter has brought to the arts sector to the social change sector.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I was talking this week with Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project (an alternative arts space in LA), about different models for community engagement in cultural institutions. For example, consider two independent arts organizations in Los Angeles -- Machine Project and The Public School.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Last week, this blog featured an interview with Sarah Schultz , a long-time staffer at the Walker Art Center, about her experiences working in an innovative arts organization. And this makes me wonder: is the "slack" model as appropriate to small, scrappy institutions as it is to larger organizations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

In gaining and retaining attention, the use of any media (film, art, social media) needs to be sparse, consistent and targeted and, more importantly, to create a personal connection. And media (social, journalistic or arts-based) can be used at every step of that equation. 3) What are you trying to change?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Cake vs. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony. The alternative would be to use 1.1

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

Today's Big Vision Podcast transcript is from an interview with arts activist, Alli Chagi-Starr. We'll be taking with arts activist Alli Chagi-Starr, the Cultural Arts Director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights ' Reclaim the Future Program. You can hear the orginal podcast on Gcast , Odeo or iTunes.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2015

In the 1970’s, the idea of a “season ticket” in the arts really took off. Arts organizations were able to bring ticketing revenue and cash in ahead of the performance (which is when they actually are incurring the cost of the production), encourage loyalty and reduce risk. It seemed like a win/win.

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Your Future Operational Model? While technology is its own science, the art and craft of successful implementation often depends on expert facilitation and guidance. Click here to download full White Paper. Software providers can almost always support both large and small operations. Only Technology or Strategic Support?

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Forj

JULY 5, 2017

The program can be broken down into two different tracks: Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Advanced Alternative Payment Models (Advanced APMs). As most medical society professionals know, communicating to and on behalf of physicians and other medical staff can be a delicate art.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

Senior leaders model the skill that Edgar H. Schein calls “ Humble Inquiry ” – the art of asking questions based on curiosity and building trust. Alternatively, there may bean emphasis on collecting more data than is necessary, but no one relates it to decision making. Cultural Indicators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

It's look at what's wrong with public relations in an age of social media, a complete social media primer from the perspective of those who work in communications, and lots of incredibly useful information about the art of listening and metrics for the web 2.0 Mentions an alternative tool to Feedburner - Pheedo.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Women and Technology November 15, 2006 One of the things I really like about the nonprofit technology community is that there are so many women involved. So where did the women go? 3 Michelle Murrain 11.29.06

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2012

If she is not willing or able to articulate a potential change, it’s not a prototype—it’s just a model of a foregone conclusion. Or alternatively, what kind of culture are you trying to build, and what indicators reflect that? At the MAH, prototypes have to be used to test a hypothesis, or to decide among options.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

And then there's the Berkeley Ace hardware store, which has a basement lair devoted to model trains. Secrecy operates on a scarcity model; if everyone knows about it, it's not as appealing. A woman gushed about Wild Side West's hidden backyard garden area, which includes eclectic statues and cozy corners to curl into.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 11, 2017

Employ what you already know about fundraising and then match it to the crowdfunding model. Check out @Pay’s GoFundMe Alternatives for a list of great sites to use! Crowdfunding is a popular method because if it’s done right, your campaign will go viral and people will hear about it. But there’s a graveyard of failed campaigns.

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