Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Do you serve K-12 students? Up-to-date photos of constituent events and publications that illustrate the impact of your work are readily available. 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.

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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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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Easter is a great opportunity to invite your supporters’ clan out for a fun-filled morning of treats and egg-finding in a public garden or space. Fox Foundation’s, Team Fox young professionals have made these events into a fine art. Art Show and Silent Auction. Easter Egg hunt (varies; usually late March/early April).

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

Throughout the month of May, TechSoup is sharing a variety of resources on web design and development for nonprofits and public libraries. In 2008, Gateway to the Arts was in need of a major overhaul. We’re an arts organization! “Our website was a mess,” Lisa said. We had a non-logo. We have to have color!”

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The ideal candidate has a good grasp of our local artistic assets in Santa Cruz County, a knack for participatory placemaking, and enthusiasm about putting on a show. creative placemaking design Museum of Art and History programs public space' multiple times per week. How can we wait for the shoes?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits. Want some waffles with your art? Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history. But museums are rarely seen as pursuing this promise in the innovative, aggressive, and highly publicized way that Khan Academy is.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

I immediately recalled a phenomenon I witnessed as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). During my time at RISD studying industrial design, I developed relationships with two museums on campus: the Museum of Art and the Nature Lab. The Edna Lawrence Nature Lab was established in 1937, also as a resource for students.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2011

Two students, Jenny Burrows and Matt Kappler, created an unauthorized ad campaign for the Smithsonian as part of a school project. The students' ads made unauthorized use of the Smithsonian logo and could be argued to dilute or misrepresent the institutional brand. Without the formal institution, there can be no deviance.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We've gotten a little more organized at The Museum of Art & History , and we've now released opportunities for summer internships. These are unpaid part-time and full-time opportunities to help design public programs, develop new uses for the museum, perform visitor research, and pursue unusual projects.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations. It’s not unusual for us to meet with an environmental activist, a balloon artist, a farmer, and the Mayor of Santa Cruz all in one day. Can't wait to hear what you think.

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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. You just need to show proof of membership. Mention the donor on the event web page.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

Throughout the month of May, TechSoup is sharing a variety of resources on web design and development for nonprofits and public libraries. Last week, we profiled Gateway to the Arts' recent overhaul of its website as part of our Sharpen Your Website campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2006

students, the young women will be trained in personal citizen journalism to be published on a weblog (a WWW publishing tool, available for public consumption.) The students will post a minimum of once a week on an assigned topic. s your favorite artist (visual, dancer, performer or musician) and why????

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

On the Vlogging list, there is an interesting thread on Citizen Journalism as part of a class at Temple University Film and Media Arts. She assigned students to watch some Citizen Journalism vlogs and post their criticism. Another resource to check out: Weblogs: Learning in Public by Jill Walker. The class is taught by Jen.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

Our visitors range from local church families, Schwenkfelder descendants, homeschoolers, charter and private school students, local historians, special interest groups such as the Questers, lifelong learning groups, and more. These young students submitted illustrated storybooks to a student art exhibit at the SLHC last year.

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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. For the past ten years, I had focused my personal and professional life on the ultimate importance of creative expression, but something didn't feel right.

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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. The possibilities are endless!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or produce an art exhibit with elementary school students. When I first started exploring the site, I assumed it was mostly a place for charismatic hipsters and a few star artists with enough social media savvy and clever video production capabilities to produce enticing pitches. Or sail around the world. How would you fund it?

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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. We’ve been doing this for close to five years and have accumulated over 2,000 publications.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

Ludwig is a game aimed at educators and students alike. Frontiers may have better success if it were made specifically for those in migration policy work or the arts community. Jeff has been a DJ, music producer, graphic designer, illustrator and consultant to independent artists and small business owners.

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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. She needed money.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

"I think about how many times I didn't like the color of my skin, because I didn't see myself in any art. I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. We also wanted to: Inspire visitors to engage in active looking: notice, reflect, react, and respond to the works of art and to the interdisciplinary quality of the exhibition. Reassert the "forum"?

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

They’re assets, like Pokémon cards and also like actually awesome digital art, that can be owned and traded—only they’re all digital. The thing that makes them special IS that they can be owned, and that the ownership can be proven because it’s recorded and tracked on a public blockchain ledger (a digital record of transactions).

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Within the organization, the AARP Public Policy Institute maintains the AARP Livability Index , a key tool in their mission to promote the development of sound policies to address common needs for economic security, health care, and quality of life. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year!

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

This year, Forum One took home one platinum, four gold, and six silver awards in the categories of cultural, non-profit, science, health, and school/university websites, as well as digital branded content, arts and culture virtual experiences, and family and kids apps and software.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Within the organization, the AARP Public Policy Institute maintains the AARP Livability Index , a key tool in their mission to promote the development of sound policies to address common needs for economic security, health care, and quality of life. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year!

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

Organized by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA) , this year’s 29th annual awards included around 3,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the world’s largest awards of its kind. The Communicator Awards honor excellence in innovation and creative work in marketing and communications.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

It combines a job bank with news about developments in the gaming world and, my favorite, an impressive collection of feature articles on the art, business, and production of games. Getting people to play scientist or art historian may be a tougher sell than getting them to play James Bond. In my head, I say, “I am in a museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

Here’s a few of my takeaways: Comfortable Learning in Public: He wanted to make a point about the world going digital. Artists have been using the right tool at the right time to make art. Everything we do is in service of the art. Everything we do is in service of the art. They go where the audience is.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

We saw that these artists were using the wall, then telling us about it on Flickr. We’d received a video PSA from Pratt students, and I proposed the contest. If you look at the IMA (Indianapolis Museum of Art), they’ve got that going on in YouTube. Were they really using it as a post-visit resource?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

This idea can also be paired with a number of other fundraising event possibilities like movie nights, lock-ins (for older students), and other childcare activities. Workers (they don’t have to be students!) You can even turn this cookbook into a yearly publication where people can submit new or updated recipes annually.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, for example, if I provide an after-school program, I just use that a lot because I ran an after-school program for over a decade, but if I’m delivering academic programs, then I’m going to be looking at the number of students served. “We are serving X number of students right now.” And for a good reason.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Best Looking Emails: This is a tie between the Museum of Modern Art and charity: water for showing that you can still design beautiful emails despite all the constraints. Students Need Your Help to Help Others. Where my love of art began. Give the Gift of the Arts. 5 moments that inspired us in 2015. Thinking big.

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