Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Kellogg Foundation This resource helps answer a key question on many leaders’ minds: How can leaders and companies create a culture that embodies a feeling of inclusion and a sense of belonging for all employees? Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 17, 2022

Launched in 2020, the Black Trans Fund (BTF) seeks to change culture by shifting the narrative about Black trans communities towards joy and resilience, and away from violence and despair. The foundation provides grants for projects and nonprofits that are positively impacting the Asian & Pacific Islander LGBTQ+ communities.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 19, 2021

Her priorities are to those operating in communities facing high projected food insecurity, high measures of racial inequity, high local poverty rates, and low access to philanthropic capital.” Her team’s focus has been on “identifying organizations with strong leadership teams and results.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The Davey Award winners have been announced, and we’re proud to say that Forum One and our amazing clients have officially won 10 awards in website and app design for nonprofits, health, government, cultural institutions, and more. Since then, thousands of volunteers have transcribed hundreds of thousands of image files of the more than 1.7

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

project will focus on apps for arts organizations, with a practical. We'll share some interesting apps developed for arts. Discovering Public Art with Public Art Omaha. engage with public art? engage with public art? The really cool thing is how Public Art Omaha did it: their public art.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This week, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released a new paper by Holly Sidford called Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change. We may say that we want to support programming and cultural opportunities for low-income and non-white people, but that's not where the money is going. The title may sound innocuous.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Find the Future was the overarching theme of the projects.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you’re supporting the arts , you could expand online offerings at accessible price points. You could take art to the schools. I came up with an idea to mesh my love of weekend crafts fairs and artist open studio visits with my day job. I needed to assign someone to make calls to supplement the art with other items.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

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). Beck talks about this in the context of learning to play music as a young artist. Everything old is new again.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

Nonprofit arts organization Zero1 needed a way to help people make sense of its biennial, Seeking Silicon Valley, scheduled for September 2012. As recently noted by Frank Barry of Blackbaud, technology plays a key role as the art and culture sector engages its audience. To tackle the challenge, Zero1 decided to create an app.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Earlier this fall, I read this headline: "Stanford study: Participation in a cultural activity may reduce prejudice." When the music video was focused on Mexican culture, the researchers found that the white and Asian participants demonstrated a decrease in prejudice against Latinos, both immediately after the activity and six months later.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA). Want some waffles with your art? Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops. In other words, they're not pretentious.

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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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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 29, 0002

With over 15 years of nonprofit industry experience, Michael has worked with nonprofit customers across North America and the United Kingdom to implement full-scale projects and business process improvement projects. Membership Arts & Cultural stewardship ticketing' Good luck out there.

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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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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! Or better yet, improve its financial health?

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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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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. We were discussing the potential for cultural organizations to have significant impact across communities: on planning, health, education, and quality of life. A fitness trail for urban life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Is that a Zen graffiti artist? When they create an exhibit, they pick the best examples and put them together in a new and exciting way — the institution lends it support to give the works visibility. The museum itself does not create the art, but puts into a context and connects with a broader number of people.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it. Every Saturday, the curatorial team at Elsewhere , a living museum in downtown Greensboro, NC, reviews the project proposals of its artists-in-residence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Note From Beth: Yesterday, I attended a convening called “ Beyond Dynamic Adaptability ” for arts organizations about cultural participation in the arts. With a project like Granito, the film is only the beginning and serves as an invitation for everyone to share their story. Guest Post by Vincent Stehle.

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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). It's the ability for me to work with my CFO to be able to budget and align the right kinds of resources for new projects. A crew that has the capacity to build a sign at the last minute.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2014

To actively weave together cultures across differences instead of accentuating the distinctions among them. In cross-cultural communities, there is some reaching across boundaries. But I also appreciate the complexity and interdependence of these constructs--especially in cultural institutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

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. It was sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation, Wallace Foundation, San Francisco Foundation, Grants for the Arts, and the Koret Foundation. Joe Goode Twitter Presentation.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Here are 3 arts and cultural organizations that have given crowd fundraising a go for compelling causes: National Air & Space Museum. What project or ideas at your organization fit that description? Are there works of art you want to restore? A young artist program you hope to get off the ground?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Hundreds of unique, hand-made art postcards, containing words of compassion and solidarity are hand delivered to individuals and communities all over the world, bringing connection, hope, visibility and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence or repression. Each card is a piece of art in my mind.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

Just over a year ago, musician, Olivia Greer , was commissioned by Culture Project , a New York City theater company, to write a song for the Women Center Stage Festival. Culture Project's mission is to present work that is socially relevant and that calls attention to issues of human rights and social justice around the world.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

Two weeks ago, Roberto Bedoya asked several arts bloggers, including me, to write a post reflecting on Whiteness and its implications for the arts. I am in no way an expert in issues related to racial and ethnic representation in the arts. They present masterpieces by white male artists and innovations by white male scientists.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2006

This week Beth Kanter and I finished our week being mentors for the Young Caucasus Women Project. Last Sunday each of us wrote a post to answer the question, “Who is your favorite artist (visual, dancer, performer, writer or musician) and why?” The project will continue through the spring and into early summer.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

When basketball players are offering more cogent commentary on racial issues than cultural institutions, you know we have a cultural relevance problem. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. Schools and other arts organizations are rising to the challenge. What should be our role(s)? inclusion'

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2014

With over 15 years of nonprofit industry experience, Michael has worked with nonprofit customers across North America and the United Kingdom to implement full-scale projects and business process improvement projects. How do you internally define arts and culture? It’s what we all are expected to do, isn’t it?

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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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2014

Elsewhere in podcast-land, Radiolab did a fascinating piece about cultural appropriation and gate-keeping in hip hop music. It asks basic questions about who can define authenticity and quality in an art practice that was historically based in a specific cultural identity but is now being assimilated/exploited/expanded.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2013

Take for example Robert Falls who is the artistic director of the Goodman Theater he not only uses his personal Twitter account to highlight the Goodman’s shows, but also to share creative ideas, connect with peers, and discuss the art of theatre. Organizational Culture' Getting Past the Learning Curve.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Take Stock of What You Typically Do: take a look at your normal project plan. Reach out to a talented volunteer or local artist to lead the class, and purchases the necessary supplies. You can buy art supplies online at Michaels ! Have your lead artist jump on and run the class on Zoom. What will not have a good ROI?

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