Get Fully Funded

MAY 2, 2022

Virtual fundraising is not less than in-person fundraising, it’s a different animal altogether. Make it about making a difference! Which artists would your supporters be thrilled to see? People are so different in how they respond to humor. Here are some ideas: Talent contest: Perfect for an arts organization.

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Media Cause

JUNE 1, 2022

I first learned of Julia Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way – A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity during a creatively difficult time in my life. I was working a demanding job at an advertising agency, averaging 50+ hours per week while unsuccessfully trying to maintain my personal art practice on the side. An artist date?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

To spark conversation, have different questions on board members’ name tags such as “Ask me about our new kid’s program, Jumpstart.” Customized artwork Collaborate with local artists to create custom artwork inspired by your cause. This symbolic gesture connects their generosity with something tangible and special.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

This article will introduce a few ways to think differently about your existing museum shop or mind-map for the future if you intend to open one. Question yourself along the way… What are the bestsellers? Work with a local artist to create artworks inspired by your collection. Know your stock. Ringing it all up .

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Another way to think about this is to ask this question: If your organization ceased to exist , how upset would your board members, volunteers, and supporters be? If you’re supporting the arts , you could expand online offerings at accessible price points. You could take art to the schools. It seemed like a win/win. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Dilenschneider Today, Dilenschneider shares these added insights with us: Question: How many of the 25 people you profiled in your book were on your original list of landmark figures you planned to profile? The idea is to inspire young people and help them recognize that they can make a difference.

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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. They are designed to do different things.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

It’s been a rough couple years for arts-based nonprofits. As pandemic aid has run out without patrons returning in pre-2020 numbers, many arts nonprofit across the country have had to shrink programming, cut staff, or close altogether. This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. It is framed as a kind of study guide; pop-outs provide questions that tease out opportunities and tensions in the narrative.

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2013

“You Know Your Film is Making a Difference When…” Guest Post by Ellen Schneider. Note from Beth: How often have those of worked in nonprofits asked the question or been asked the question by funders, “What’s the impact?” But if you ask a filmmaker, “How do you know if your film is making a difference?”

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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?

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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. My biggest question for these social psychologists is this: how do we apply their lessons to our work? Direct questioning.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Call or email funders with any questions about their interests and your eligibility. For instance, there may be several nonprofits that offer art programs for secondary school students, but you are one of the few entities that serve adults 18 years and older. Do you serve K-12 students? The BIPOC or LGBTQ communities? Senior citizens?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I just got back from doing a plenary session at the Arts Summit organized by the Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations. It's gathering of arts leader from throughout New York State. I spoke about social media and future leadership in the arts - and also did a workshop. So back to the question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Is that a Zen graffiti artist? Networks can help us build the capacity to take advantage of different institutional skills. In a follow up post, Marnie answers her own question or rather begins to noodle on it. Trying to do everything, a scarcity model, is such an exhausting way to work.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Ultimately, any approach to answering these questions is limited at some point by the size of the audience involved. 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. You have to generalize.

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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. I loved the piece.

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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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Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

Try different fonts. Test out different shapes. Here are some questions that you should consider before embarking on your redesigning journey. If you aren’t an art aficionado, this one’s for you! Tip 6: Use different fonts. Plus, you can use different fonts to convey distinct moods.

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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. What do you see that makes that possible--or not possible--in different situations?

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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. How does this question play out in museums? 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.

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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. The first wave of critique focused on the very valid question of why Schimmel was fired in this manner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Thomas Alva Edison held 1,093 patents for different inventions. In his question to create the storage battery, he conducted 10,000 experiments before arriving at a method that worked. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

No matter where I’m speaking or teaching workshops, the same questions come up … How much time does it take to do social media effectively? Three Models. Who in our organization is going to do the work? How are ever going to find the time to do social media? Social media does take time even if you are efficient.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. This project wove together many different participatory threads. Short story: we learned a lot. We wrote a toolkit about our process. What did we learn?

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JUNE 9, 2021

In 2020, galas and other fundraising events look a little bit different from the way they used to. Ok maybe quite a bit different. It can also be a great idea to highlight different items on social media before the event. Teams can register to compete in different challenges with the top scorers winning a prize!

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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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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Note: the title of this post pays homage to Elaine Heumann Gurian''s excellent and quite different 1981 essay of the same title. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments!

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" I was surprised by her question.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2013

Think about the difference between Pacman and Grand Theft Auto. Negotiated agency" strikes me as a really useful framework in which to talk about visitor/audience participation in the arts. Negotiation" implies a respectful relationship between institution (or artist) and user. The museum invites art-making in the elevator.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).

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MARCH 11, 2015

In art institutions, we typically treat the curator as the arbiter of quality. If done critically and with intention, it advances understanding of different types of quality and different levels of expertise. Why are we so afraid that great art will lose its power if we surround it with other work? Did you feel brave?

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APRIL 25, 2011

Note: the title of this post pays homage to Elaine Heumann Gurian's excellent and quite different 1981 essay of the same title. This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! The Museum 2.0

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