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JANUARY 4, 2022

Reach out to the chef of a popular local restaurant or send a call out to any supporters who are baking aficionados to host a virtual cooking or baking class as a fundraiser. Have your local wine expert guide you all through the different wines via livestream to complete the experience. Student art show. Cooking or baking class.

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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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Neon CRM

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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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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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? Explore their collection of art items here.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Paint and sip events work for any type of organization, artists of all levels, and can easily be adapted for every season. If you’re going the DIY route, reach out to a local artist to lead the class, and stock up on all the necessary supplies. Your artist just has to log in and lead class virtually. Trivia Night.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Get local businesses involved for prize sponsorships, and make it a public, fun event that everyone can come and watch. You can also use services like Discord to host a video chat to allow participants to game together, or Twitch to stream games. You can buy art supplies online at Michaels ! You can make this virtual too!

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 8, 2015

It promoted the project through videos, mass emails, and social and mainstream media—typical fundraising tools. Within weeks, it had raised $10,000 to buy new bins for trash and recycling in the park, designed by local artists as public art." ''via Blog this'''

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 8, 2015

It promoted the project through videos, mass emails, and social and mainstream media—typical fundraising tools. Within weeks, it had raised $10,000 to buy new bins for trash and recycling in the park, designed by local artists as public art." ''via Blog this'''

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Qgiv

APRIL 27, 2022

Before you start planning your raffle, make sure you understand what the local gambling laws are in your state. Reaching out to local businesses and artisans to see if they’d be willing to become in-kind sponsors for your event is another way you can collect items for your raffle. What are good raffle prize ideas? Board game basket.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

Bring in a top local chef (see point #3) to host a virtual cooking class. Hire a talented artist to create real-time illustrations in a session. Then, your attendees can navigate to their session for a tea break and see what interesting art was created. Recipe Night. Real-time Illustrations. Speed Networking.

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

Museum of Contemporary Art. The theme of MCON 2015 is “The Power of Influence: Art, Media, Business and Place” and an incredible lineup of speakers from the corporate, nonprofit and public sectors will share stories of the successes and failures they’ve encountered while changing the world. The Art Assignment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2006

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?” Our programming is woven across disciplines at California College of the Arts and serves the diverse populations of the San Francisco Bay Area." Here is Beth's post and here is mine.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

Art, however, does not come to museums pre-hardened. At the museum of art and history where I work, we are grappling with the question of how to help people enjoy themselves while keeping the art and artifacts safe. The level of touching, especially of art, has increased. Engagement with local artists.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. They can be a video interview with the donor about the mission.

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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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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2015

I have an unusual education for the director of an art & history museum: a degree in electrical engineering. But every once in a while, I look at my brilliant colleagues with liberal arts backgrounds and wonder what they know that I don't. I can identify artworks by famous artists. I can tell a local story from 1849.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Kate was selected from over 1500 applicants based on a one-minute video, an essay, and an application form. Instead, this post focuses on a fascinating aspect of Month at the Museum: the video applications. Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

After years of staging events, you may feel like there’s nothing you haven’t covered, from art auctions to wine tastings to trivia nights. Here are some to consider: Art: Art auctions serve a valuable purpose because they don’t just raise funds, they also spread awareness and appreciation of the works being auctioned.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Adobe’s software donation programs through TechSoup help organizations design powerful print collateral, create video accounts of their successes, build their web presence, and more. See how nonprofits like yours are benefiting from their donated products and services, and creating professional-quality videos.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

INTERNSHIPS If you want to join us in Santa Cruz for more professional learning, consider an internship at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Video/Photo. Balloon Art Brigade. We have been slowly expanding paid positions here with a focus on local connections and diverse backgrounds. Youth Programs. Button bombs.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. Why did you choose this format instead of video?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

With a virtual format, you have the advantage of offering more variety since you can easily change the video source and even use pre-recorded video content. Instead of serving everyone at a single location, consider a catered meal delivered to each of your donors from a local restaurant. 7) Shopping. 9) Movie screenings.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 17, 2015

People from across the country will gather at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago to experience MCON in person and over 20,000 people will stream the event online. While the in-person audience is at lunch, online participants can watch a series of powerful films and videos. The Latest Research on Millennials and Social Good.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

A local engineer, Greg McPheeters, brought his tandem-bike powered recycled couch to our Trash to Treasure festival last Friday night. Riding the art couch through downtown Santa Cruz with two visitors and a dog while blasting the Jackson 5 was one of the highlights of my year. Happening Couch.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And all kinds of information on our website, you can watch videos, get a really good sense of what we have to offer. ” And use the word “projected,” because we know that the service definitely impacted people in a positive way and we’re using local statistics to make sure that we’ve captured that impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Free Geek looks at two problems: e-waste and access to technology and throws them at each other in a way that saves the earth and gets computers into the hands of people who would not otherwise have them I had a field day with my camera and made the above music video on the plane home. There was warmth, kindness, and acceptance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

I did my first presentation about the Internet when I started working with Arts Wire in 1993. Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Or participating in the online conversation on Arts Wire. 09 was the first version I used).

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Boulder Food Rescue works with local businesses to collect surplus food that would usually be thrown away and distribute that food to people who need it. Cary Creative Center in North Carolina is an upcycling nonprofit that provides used artistic materials to people. As a reuse organization, its motto is "make art, not waste."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

I used the BBS to post questions asked by people in a local face-to-face support group who were not online. Then I discovered the Internet and became the community builder for Arts Wire, an online network for artists that used a unix-based text conferencing system called Caucus. ha live blogging and video blogging.

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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. There are both virtual-only and local 1stfan members. Will: Only 32 of the 272 so far are from outside the tri-state area, so the majority are locals. We're curious to see how that goes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2007

I think of her work as a mashup between an extremely talented court room artist, journalist, social activist and philanthropist. I'm a dog person, so this one got my attention -- a portion of the portrait fee will be donated to the Humane Society, the dog might get a new home, and you can watch a time lapse video of her painting the portrait.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

I've written before about the inspiring work that the Brooklyn Museum of Art is doing with their community-focused efforts. Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2009

At the time, I was a program director for an arts education program and a facilitator of career counseling workshops for artists. Although the video presentation and following discussion about the Books Not Bars program by EBC staff members was extremely disturbing, it was Jones’ closing remarks that resonated with me.

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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. It's easier for people to get really passionate about national issues, but local issues are just as important. Democracy happens at a local level still, so we still need that kind of civic, local reporting.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Share your silent auction basket highlights on all of your social media platforms, using both photos and videos to boost your items’ appeal. In your videos, remember to describe your items in detail. Hometown Flavors – A local flavor gift basket is a great way to highlight local businesses.

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