Kindful

MARCH 11, 2021

They know firsthand the hardships of engaging board members, raising money, and managing unruly board members. And why not, you’re paying good money! Facilitating a high-impact, memorable retreat is an art and the best facilitators are master artists. They can empathize with where you are because they’ve been there.

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Achieve

JANUARY 18, 2023

Virtual nonprofit events have fewer overhead costs and can save your organization a lot of money in the long run, boosting your overall ROI. With a bigger audience, you can effectively raise more money, raise awareness for your cause, and create a united push toward reaching your goals. Virtual nonprofit events can expand your reach.

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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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Connection Cafe

JUNE 11, 2014

Sara Woldt is an MBA candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Bolz Center for Arts Administration with career interests in marketing and development. A new building, a new program, a new artistic endeavor – all exciting opportunities to raise more donor dollars! Discuss these goals with your donors.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

” And that’s a difficult question to answer – whether it is your social or network strategy or a work of art. They are fully dedicated to their craft and want their artistic contributions to be authentic and tangible. The first step is identify what impact might look like as this post explains. “I

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

She is a lifelong artist, and was a therapist working in psychiatric hospitals before she made the leap into advertising (long story). Lisa Sonora Beam, The Creative Entrepreneur: How I Have Fun, Do Good Buy art from artists. One of the most fun ways to do good is to buy art and hand crafts directly from artists and artisans.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

One that has found remarkable success is California’s Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Audiences of all backgrounds found ways to connect with museums as it presented exhibitions with the help of foster youth, migrant farmers, roller-derby girls, mushroom hunters, surfers and incarcerated artists, among others.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Online virtual fundraising is one of the most popular ways for nonprofits to raise money. Pensacola Habitat For Humanity’s Women Build initiative encouraged folks to set up their own personal fundraising websites to raise money for the cause. You can buy art supplies online at Michaels ! A giving day if you will.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

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). Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. Every organization has pockets of restricted and unrestricted money.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I can't believe that an art museum can be front page news in LA for days." LA MOCA has indeed been front page news, especially in the art world. It's amazing to see papers like the LA Times cover the debate about the future of an art museum deeply.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2015

In 2011, in the name of raising money for the Special Olympics, I participated in the Polar Plunge. Here are 3 arts and cultural organizations that have given crowd fundraising a go for compelling causes: National Air & Space Museum. Are there works of art you want to restore?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

But we've just compiled all our attendance data for the past year at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (our fiscal year ends on June 30), and several people have written to me asking for the numbers behind our turnaround. I promise--after this post, I'll stop writing about this. were shamelessly resourceful.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Product Marketing Manager for Arts and Cultural Solutions. Laura’s experience working at and serving on the board of multiple arts organizations around the country shape her insights into the nonprofit community. Met the artist? Guest post by Laura Beussman , Blackbaud’s Sr. Let them know! Let them know!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

Over the past two years, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has undergone a significant transformation of program, audience, and resources. Our revolution is predicated on three big ideas: Art and history are something you do, not just something you learn about. More money. You can download all the slides here.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

When it comes to user participation in cultural institutions and the arts, it's popular to launch projects that pit visitors against experts. at the Brooklyn Museum, where you could track how people of various levels of art expertise rated crowd-contributed photographs. There was Click! What tools do we use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

My first job in nonprofit and technology was as community manager for an online network of artists called ArtsWire in 1993 before the Web. The online interaction design was patterned after the Well - it was described as a WELL for artists. s about the money. For we who resist, the money is the least of it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This makes it difficult for staff to strike a meaningful, sustainable balance between work and self-care because it does not permeate a organization’s culture or fundamentally change staff behavior. The most recent one was during the The National Arts Marketing Project Conference. Practicing self-care is an abundance mindset.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Looking closer, I saw that each seat had its own handwritten label, telling the story of the Philadelphia cultural institution from which it originated. The chairs were cast-off art, reclaimed as art, available for people to take off the hooks and use. They were there for artist talks. There's no money to fix them.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

As we head into the final months of 2020, some parts of the country are opening up more than others, consumers are itching to get out of their homes, and arts and culture organizations are at a pivotal moment in planning for their comeback. This was already playing out across mainstream genres (i.e.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or produce an art exhibit with elementary school students. If you make or exceed your goal in the timeframe you set, you get the money. Kickstarter makes money by taking a percentage on projects that succeed. Why should cultural and arts organizations care about Kickstarter? Or sail around the world. Funding goal.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Our curator writes labels about licking the art. Talking about money, openly. I led a session with Eric Siegel and Ellen Rosenthal on museum business models and some of the issues we grapple with in managing money. Merilee Mostov and the Columbus Museum of Art. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

4 Steps for Selling Your Art: Interview with Alyson B.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Peer-to-Peer Events Arts & Culture Events Community Events Educational Events Events for Grown-Ups Events for Kids & Families Nonprofit Peer-to-Peer Events Peer-to-peer events raise funds and generate buzz by having your supporters and participants get their networks involved in your event.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2005

Although he's only been there a few years he's helped to create all kinds of cool things like the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market --the largest international folk art market in the United States. Each attending cooperative might represent, for example, 600 artists back home in Bangladesh.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In a lot of ways, our successful turnaround at the MAH has been driven by both embracing incremental change and opening up clear opportunities for community organizations and individuals to "plug" their cultural brilliance into our space. When I started at the MAH last May, we had absolutely no money. We scrounged for free couches.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2010

The first participant was handed money (the price of a ticket), but the later two had money literally stuffed into their clothes by the dancers. Dean noted that in the US performances, the participants always tried to give the money back to the dancers, but in Korea that never happened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

They’re jocks, geeks, artists, musicians and cheerleaders…and we need their help. Crowdsourcing killed punk rock…Crowdsourcing kills art…It’s bullshit. I hate these poster child looks of these kids that look so hungry…like ‘please give us money.’ …I Doing good isn’t our job, it’s everyone’s. Generic license ).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. But there was no such program focused on the arts. One community of interest are Oaxacan culture-bearers in the nearby Live Oak neighborhood. No money changed hands.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

She doesn't have a specific idea for a partner event or exhibit, but she feels like we have a lot to offer each other in terms of publicity and a shared focus on enhancing cultural experiences in the community. And she wants to do it now--in the next two weeks. I want to say yes. In fact, I do say yes. Chaos can be stressful.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

This week, an interview with Brooklyn Museum 1stfans managers Will Cary (membership) and Shelley Bernstein (technology) and artist An Xiao. So you weren't targeting "Brooklyn artists" or some other demographic group. T he Twitter Art Feed features a new artist every month. This was made for them. Will: Right.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2015

I spent last week holed up in a cabin, working on my forthcoming book, The Art of Relevance. One of the most powerful books I read while doing research was We are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence ( read it free here , great appreciation to Bob Janes for sharing it with us).

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2013

If you asked me a month ago what the biggest barrier was to American arts organizations adopting practices that support active engagement in the arts by diverse participants, I would have said two: money and legitimacy. Move the money, and the field will move. Turns out it's not that simple.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

We're taking the art of freelancing for writers, and making it much more transparent and much more public. We look for people to partner with them, whether it be members of the community to donate small amounts of money, or news organizations to provide editorial to then push the story into completion. Where did the idea come from?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Research and assessment is rare in the arts, and it tends to focus on "proving" our value. Studies of how arts participation affects student test scores. And given what I''ve seen on micro and macro-levels in arts funding and power, I don''t think this strategy is working. Economic impact studies. That is a given.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Not only will you be able to raise a substantial amount of money for your organization’s cause, but your supporters will also return home with a valuable prize in hand. In fact, studies show that more and more people are gravitating toward spending money on travel and events rather than material things, and for good reason.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

This social aspect makes it a powerful way to boost visibility in your community and raise money for your programs! For instance, you might want to raise money in remembrance of a loved one who passed away or to support a whole group like veterans. Donors are more likely to give when they know the person who’s doing the asking.

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