Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Customized artwork Collaborate with local artists to create custom artwork inspired by your cause. Recipe book of gratitude Compile a recipe book featuring favorite dishes from your team. Final thoughts Expressing gratitude and thanks to donors is an art, and a touch of creativity can make the experience truly memorable.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Recipe Book Fundraiser Create and sell a low-cost cookbook featuring recipes contributed by supporters, leveraging community involvement to raise funds. Book Sale Collect donated books, hold a low-cost sale, and invite the neighborhood to show out and buy some used books! Books rule.

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NTEN

AUGUST 26, 2021

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. You spin, swim, scuba, and do yoga.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 2, 2022

Which artists would your supporters be thrilled to see? But many organizations have booked just the right stand-up comedian for their virtual fundraising event! You can book the speaker without having to pay for a flight and hotel. Here are some ideas: Talent contest: Perfect for an arts organization. Bullet journaling.

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Whole Whale

MAY 19, 2023

The DALL·E 2 Prompt Book : This is the OG image prompt library and guide on designing great prompts. ArtHub AI Library : A collection of AI-generated art prompts and a platform for artists to showcase their AI-generated artwork. They also respond to prompts differently and are capable of image dimensions beyond a square output.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Dilenschneider tells these stories of 25 men and women from around the globe who shaped the world in his new book, Nailing It. Went on to do what put them in the history books. For the more mature this book offers a snapshot of history in the making. The stories offer some perspective on what young people are experience now.

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DipJar

AUGUST 9, 2022

They’re so much more than book museums. The library’s physical art gallery was converted to a digital one that continued to present the work of area artists. Charlie Hewitt – an artist from New York who grew up using Curtis Memorial Library – felt frustrated with so much negativity in the world.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Parker, a Seneca Indian who worked as the director of the Museum of Arts and Science in Rochester, N.Y. National Native American Heritage Month was created with the intention to provide a platform for American Indians to share and honor their culture, traditions, music, art, dance, beliefs, and ways of life.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Is the book pile by your bed ready to topple over like mine is? My virtual social changey book club is reading this for our January call. There was one week where 2 or 3 people all recommended that I read this book, so I added it to my Amazon wish list and got it for Christmas. Looking forward to diving in.

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Qgiv

APRIL 30, 2024

Superhero-themed: Unleash your guests’ inner superhero with a comic book-inspired theme, featuring caped crusaders and action-packed items. Art-themed: Embrace the creative spirit with an art-themed event showcasing local artists and unique works of art.

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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

MARCH 6, 2012

My colleagues Chad Norman and Melanie Mathos (who have day jobs at Blackbaud) have published a new social media how-to book, 101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits: A Field Guide. The book is a collection of time saving tips for using social media organized into the following categories: set up, communicate, engage, fundraise, and measure.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Make sure to advertise your artists and makers on your social media platforms leading up to the opening of your shop with photos and videos. Student art show. Give your artistic students the opportunity to show off their skills by hosting a virtual art show. Online discount book sales. Virtual craft fair.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. 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).

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more? Here are three of my favorites.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

But this month, it's as if there was a subliminal email sent to a crew of bloggers in the arts suggesting a salon about audience diversity, and how/why to move in that direction. Even amidst a sea of new books about museums and social change, I find myself reaching for Elaine's classics above all others.

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Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

They often have books, blogs, and podcasts. Facilitating a high-impact, memorable retreat is an art and the best facilitators are master artists. Tom Iselin has built eight nonprofits and written six books. If a facilitator does good work, people will happily sing their praises. They use a pre-retreat assessment process.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

Some things to ask for might include: Book collections Technology, like phones, laptops, tablets Certificates to local businesses Art pieces. Art-themed Auction. Do you have any local artists in your area or artistic, passionate supporters in your donor base? Appeal to this audience with an art-themed auction!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Earlier this month, the Detroit Institute of Arts was "saved" by a voter-approved property tax (called a "millage") in its three surrounding counties. I'm focusing on the community response to the prospect of the millage and the way the public debate reflects broader conversations about the public value of the arts.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

Yesterday, the local paper in Santa Cruz published a great article about my new book, The Art of Relevance. I've learned so much from my dad about making art, putting on a great show, inviting audience participation , and navigating celebrity. Learn more about The Art of Relevance and get your own copy here.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

OdysseyWorks is a collective that makes immersive art experiences for one person at a time. OdysseyWorks' projects get to the heart of the fiercest debates in the arts today. Is it elitist to present art that may be dislocating or foreign? You have to generalize. But what if you only had an audience of one?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I talked with Tiffany, and also with Hazel Markus and Alanna Connor, Stanford social psychologists who recently co-authored a pretty fascinating pop-science book about understanding cultural difference. The book of the same title that he edited is rocking my world, both as a museum professional who cares about inclusion and as a new mother.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This is the third in a series of posts about Paul Light's book Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations that Innovate Naturally. This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Nestled in a forest of high-rise apartment buildings, this small museum connects children and families with contemporary art. Like the New Children's Museum in San Diego, Hello Museum creates building-wide interactive exhibitions with artists, on themes like nature and #NoWar. There were plants and books everywhere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2016

I was an early adopter of using the Internet in 1992 where I had a virtual job working online for a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts called ArtsWire. A Zentangle is a miniature abstract work of art created with a collection of patterns. Artist Tiles. There are no mistakes. It is unplanned.

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Achieve

JANUARY 18, 2023

When planning an in-person fundraising event, your organization likely nails down the venue, catering, and entertainment very quickly since these need to be booked months in advance—and can require a significant amount of funds. However, this isn’t the case with virtual events. .

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Feed Your Inner Starving Artist -- Raffle for a glass making class in the museum glass studio and dinner -- by the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum – Why I liked it? Everyone has an artist inside them waiting to paint, sculpt, craft, etc. Because no child should grow up without books -- ReBook Program--. Arts and Culture Category.

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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. They were open books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

One of the big themes in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , is the importance of experiments and not to frame them as success or failure but as learning. On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Handwriting is quickly becoming a lost art form. 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Lisa is the author of The Creative Entrepreneur , an award-winning book on creativity and business for creatives who want to do what they love, and make a difference. She is a lifelong artist, and was a therapist working in psychiatric hospitals before she made the leap into advertising (long story). We eat, sleep and make art 24/7.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 0002

Over the past eight years, Michael has been specifically focused on the Arts and Cultural marketplace and is an active participant in delivering speaking engagements and contributing to trade publication articles. Membership Arts & Cultural stewardship ticketing' Good luck out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

I am thrilled with the response to The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout as my co-author and I have been sharing the ideas on a virtual book tour during the last month. One of our hopes for the book was that it would spark conversation about the need for self-care as part of doing the work.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This question launches Howard Mansfield''s fascinating book about historic restoration, The Same Ax, Twice. While many of their examples came from history and natural science, one of my favorite examples is from art. Many artists work with assistants and reproducing processes. In some, the artist produced the original painting.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Cause Camp 2020 is officially in the books! DSNNN won $2,500 for their collaborative art project and organization. The UnchARTed Waters event empowers artists with developmental disabilities to express their creativity through movement, motion, and wonder! . Here is a recap of Cause Camp 2020. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

When I heard about the idea from Allison Fine I immediately thought about the work of Lewis Hyde and gift economies or the art of pay it forward. I've been looking at the books that I haven't yet donated to our library that sit on my bookshelf (yes, I'm so 19th Century, I do still read books in paper format).

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