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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Many of them, like the lightbulb , the phonograph , and the motion picture camera , were brilliant creations that have a huge influence on our everyday life. 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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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

OCTOBER 30, 2009

29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew! We Inspire Grant : One year of creative services to one U.S. Become a YouTube Video Volunteer Is Volunteering Good for Your Health?

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 8, 2012

Tale #3: A decade or so ago, when I worked at a certain cathedral in [another state], I was sent an envelope full of grocery coupons and pornography from a man whose accompanying hand-written letter (yes… all caps) claimed him to be the grandson of Michelangelo (long life spans in that family). Turns out he was wanted for being a scam artist.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Dora helps me file December 11 – 11 Things What are 11 things your life doesn’t need in 2011? How will getting rid of these 11 things change your life? As I mentioned in a post last week , I'd like to teach a a class in 2011 about The Art of Blogging: Creating Juicy Content for Artists, Writers, Creative Entrepreneurs and Do-Gooders.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The following organizations currently offer grant and funding opportunities for women and/or accept letters of inquiry or proposals. Amber Grant Foundation. Amber Grant Foundation. Historically for female entrepreneurs, the Amber Grant can now be awarded to female-led nonprofit organizations with vision and passion.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

The following organizations currently offer grant and funding opportunities for women and/or accept letters of inquiry or proposals. Amber Grant Foundation. Amber Grant Foundation. Historically for female entrepreneurs, the Amber Grant can now be awarded to female-led nonprofit organizations with vision and passion.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 14, 2017

Unfunded expenses (cost of something that would enhance the current budget): the cost of adding extra personnel such as an assistant to the managing director, or a contracted grant writer. Keep in mind, a lawyer’s rates will be different from an administrative assistant’s rate, or an artistic director’s salary.

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Museum 2.0

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. Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. One lives a double life as a soul music collector and DJ.

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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. They want to be involved in investigations, but they don't necessarily want to give up the next three weeks, or four weeks of their life, and that's understandable. If life is a chessboard, content is still king.

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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. Their use, and their transfer among families, was an essential part of community life and connection with the gods. They were still fighting for the province to grant the possibility of full repatriation.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! The animal keepers run their blog.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

One of the most common situations we see here, at Funding for Good, with groups that are 4, 5, 6, 7-years-old, they’re starting to apply for grants, you know, they’re upping their fundraising game, and they’re trying to share the impact from their first years. ” or, “how has your life improved?”

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

The Detroit Institute of Arts has been a precious anchor where many of us have created memories that helped define who we are today. The label did not address that the artist sexually abused her, gave her syphilis, and colonized her home. It would be difficult to count the wonderful opportunities I’ve had here.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2007

And an art gallery. Specifically, Elaine advocates that museums stimulate and support "informal public life" through concious construction for diverse applications. Is it okay for people to express themselves artistically or musically in the galleries? It's no longer crazy to see a laundromat with art on the walls.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 17, 2007

It's an opportunity to see how something is made, to un-take-for-granted the way it works. I was reminded of this pleasure last night, when I came home to a group of Second Life builders working in our living room. So give me a painting in an art museum with a video of the artist creating that painting right next to it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Many of them had almost nothing by way of material resources, but they had imagination, and if you have imagination, you can, it turns out, light the dark with all kinds of creative arts. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. They are making progress.

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