sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Alternatively, you could forsake a participant application process in favor of shifting power immediately. Meetings with participants, staff or donors, to talk through strategic questions, or grantmaking rules and regulations. Integrate elements of creativity and art: some grantmakers include music, poetry, and art.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Add a background that represents the theme of the night and play background music that will get people moving or singing along. Post simple recipes for cocktails (rename them to fit the theme for more fun) and share a music playlist you’ve created for the event with your attendees. Bring back the cocktail hour!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

A guest Beneblog by Max Schneider People don’t typically associate boisterous merengue music with high-tech statistical analysis. It’s funny, my parents asked the same question.) Indeed, much of our work in Guatemala centered on framing our partners’ substantive questions in a way we could actually answer using Archive data.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

Or, you can help guests gain an appreciation for your cause through an educational or cultural activity — like a DJ lesson with a music nonprofit or a bike tour through LGBTQ history. Many nonprofits host one to two times per month, often alternating weekends and weekdays to accommodate the schedules of both travelers and locals.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

We’re willing to bet $1 that there’s at least one you haven’t thought of — and if that one is #34, we have some questions for you…. We love the New York Public Library’s Anti-Proms , which provide an alternative, safe space regardless of sexuality, gender identity, and any other reason for NYC teens. Outdoor Music Festival.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 18, 2022

In order to maximize their donation potential, nonprofits could embrace creative, diverse fundraising alternatives to monetary contributions. The big question is, how much can your nonprofit spend on fundraising? Musical instruments. Arts and crafts. Kitchen goods. Electronics. Hobby supplies. Furniture(space permitting).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

How can we develop audiences, cultivate care and empathy, and find alternate funding that doesn’t require public popularity so that important stories get told? WEINGARTEN | Rolling Stone Music Critic| @1000TimesYes. People have awful taste…it’s all this music that rises to the middle, this boring, bland, white-people guitar music.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

Back then, my favorite question was: "What is the cost of a free computer?" In other words, don't put all your online relationships and donors in one free software basket and consider the alternatives before you adopt free technology. I'd often walk into offices and see computers like those above on people's desks.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

To their credit Convio asks this question on their blog : “Should organizations like Convio, and Giving USA continue to offer these sorts of insights to the nonprofit community, or is this simply self-serving marketing fluff? It’s titled “ Benchmarking With a Warped Stick.&# Time will tell. {

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2015

Nonprofits face competition not only from other nonprofits or businesses but from alternative ways individuals could meet their needs. For example, a nonprofit music lesson provider might face competition from school music programs, but also from sports and other after-school activities, or from video games.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

First, organic reach is at an all-time low and the value and effectiveness of social media advertising is questionable : Facebook: 2.9 Mastodon: A Twitter alternative , but even with all the chaos of the Elon Musk takeover, any Twitter alternative will struggle. Instagram: 1.4 BackLinkO ].

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 21, 2009

An iPhone app created by a company called Melodeo that streamed Christmas music for $2.99. $1 Eric Leland of FivePaths suggested the LogMeIn app explaining that it, "allows you to connect to remote computers, over 3G, nice simple remote networking alternative for accessing your desktop on the road."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

, why Ruby on Rails rocks (or doesn’t), what’s a good alternative port to run SSH, when we’re going to implement IPv6 or … there’s a whole lot of testosterone, and not a lot of estrogen hanging about. I didn’t ask this question too often (it would just depress me.) So where did the women go?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

When you become curious and ask genuine, curious, engaging questions , you’re able to join your donor’s story. We train professional musicians, because music soothes the savage beast.” Precede these questions using the words “feel,” “felt,” and “found.” Then, you can offer an alternative way to think about the situation.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks. I’d love your thoughts on this – particularly looking at the questions that folks suggested [link] 2 admin 08.14.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

There is no question that the social networking space is evolving. People have left social networks before and they will do so again if there is an alternative that suits them better. That obviously doesn’t happen in agriculture. It’s ludicrous to think that commercial social networks have a real lock on your content.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 27, 2006

Caroline was kind enough to answer a few questions for me as part of an e-interview. MOTM's main project is Turn Beauty Inside Out (TBIO), an annual campaign that explores the portrayal of girls and women in film, television, music, advertising and government. You can read some of the girl's blog posts from the retreat here.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Imagine bonfires, musical jam sessions, and iron chef exhibit design. We've created an alternative website to provide a more participatory version of the standard pre-conference informational site. Imagine a small enough group that you can spend meaningful time with brilliant people in your field. Imagine making and playing together.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2006

People prefer purchasing unbundled content to the more traditional alternative. All museums are models of aggregated content; heck, we're the boxed music sets of physical content. Some music purists would applaud such efforts--but most of us would go out and buy a new player. And, surprise!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Two (yes, just two) questions out of many relate to security. Also, when the range of your security evaluations extends from “good&# to “excellent&# without characterizing what’s worse than “good,&# I don’t have any alternative but to treat “good&# as the worst on your spectrum.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

I've written before about the problems with value membership (and innovations like 1stfans ), and I was intrigued and challenged by John and Beverly's alternatives. They started a new music program by targeting small groups of members with special shows and building up, to the point that now their audience for new music is huge.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Relationships can grow as families bond over a Family Art Day experience or friends can work together to create their own shoebox guitar at Santa Cruz Music 3 rd Friday or strangers can collaborate by participating in a cardboard tube orchestra. Stacey will be responding to your questions and comments on this post.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Attendees will enjoy themed trivia questions, compete for prizes, and contribute to your cause while having a blast. Concert Bring together local music lovers for an unforgettable evening that highlights your nonprofit’s mission. Teams can pay to participate in your event and can also seek sponsorships tied to their performance.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2005

Answering all of these questions will help you to determine the amount of time, energy and resources you can devote to your plan. We need to create positive creative alternatives. There is a growing movement focusing on building the local, green economy as an alternative to the transnational corporation. Establish you goals.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

First, there's the question of creative control. That r elates to a more general question: How do virtual exhibits translate to real exhibits? People can touch individual spheres, each of which represents a musical note, to activate them, and the spheres create a song that evolves as spheres are activated and deactivated.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

You can also give teams the option to buy special boosts or phone-a-friend lifelines throughout the trivia event when they need a little extra help with an extra hard question. Or, alternatively, pair your party with a livestreamed holiday movie night of classics. Giving day.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

As a virtual alternative , have each of your congregants set up a personal fundraising webpage. Give your congregants the opportunity to send each other a fun musical gift by holding a singing telegram fundraiser. Give your musical church members something to sing about with a fun karaoke night. Karaoke night.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2014

Questions Nonprofit Most Often Ask About the Cloud. TechSoup: What are a few questions you hear most often from nonprofits about the cloud and/or Office 365? Sam Chenkin: I’m afraid it is not so easy to answer that question. Sam Chenkin: This question is exactly why we built the Office 365 DIY workshop series.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

The other questions, that are really more geared toward particular vendors, for FOSS CMS are not really applicable to the CMS itself, but to the consultants or vendors who implement it – which is bound to be variable. All of the free and open source options did quite well in terms of Quality, Usability, and Value.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

But one question you might find yourself frequently asking is “What kind of fundraising event should we host next?”. While virtual fundraising events were simply a quick alternative, they actually proved to be a convenient and effective way to engage with donors. Have a collection of board games for people to try out together.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

So my question to you and your colleagues, from our perspective, is what do you want us to do? Charlie is from Mission Research, which also provides a CRM/Fundraising product, and his question is a good one – what do I want CRM vendors to be? What kind of vendor would you like us to be? Free software? 2 David Zeidman 08.07.07

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Ask questions as we go along. There’s a Q&A tab, so put your questions in the Q&A tab. And then you may have something like scholarship funds, or the music fund, or something like that. Use fields provided for alternate names if you can for those nicknames. Robin, we got a lot of questions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

at 11:23 pm Wow, Michelle, those are *exactly* the questions that I want schools to start asking themselves. at 8:45 am Yes, totally – I think that schools have been on that same track, and not asking themselves the same questions. 1 trackback } The Bamboo Project Blog 04.09.07 Mitchell 04.08.07 2 Michelle Murrain 04.09.07

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Wendy has a very specific set of ground rules about how someone is supposed to approach the Love Tapes: first, by watching others to get the feel for it, then, recording their own (to background music of their choice), then, deciding whether to include it in the total collection, and finally, viewing their own tape as part of that collection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

(it was the NMC’s 15th anniversary) that got rolled into a NMC@15 video , and a chance to sign up for 15 minutes of studio time on the John Lennon Bus to create a package of sharable music loops. As an alternative, we created a Cafe Press shop with many more kinds of t-shirts then we could normally provide, plus other goodies.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The website has a support page where you can ask questions. The lite version is a free online tool that allows you to add titles and music to a succession of photos, and the effect is incredible. TechSoup Canada: Adobe Alternatives: Graphic Editing & Publishing Software. It’s called Animoto.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

The basic idea is to bring together a combination of a green economy trade show with about four hundred green economy companies, and a conference on the green economy with about a hundred speakers, and then we have live music all day long, everything from hip hop to bluegrass. I have this detailed critique. I know I don't. They are cynical.

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