ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2013

As part of one of my NMI classes the instructor brought in the books that she’d turned to time and time again throughout a successful career in the nonprofit sector. It was a great class, and after it was over I got a copy of the book and read it. It made a huge impact on me.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Movies for Impact. Consider a play out of Sigma Tau Delta’s book and host a superhero-themed fundraiser with a local bookstore or comic shop that donates a percentage of all in-store sales for a set amount of time to your organization. Bonus points if the artist does an entire custom flash related to your cause. Click To Tweet.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. When the music video was not focused on Mexican culture, no such change occurred. This blog is about shared learning, and I went to engineering school.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Community impact or commemorative wall. Community impact or donor recognition wall that exists on a whiteboard, chalkboard, foam core or some temporary board that you display in a lobby or other space a few times a year.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

The impact was dramatic. Audiences of all backgrounds found ways to connect with museums as it presented exhibitions with the help of foster youth, migrant farmers, roller-derby girls, mushroom hunters, surfers and incarcerated artists, among others. Within three years, attendance tripled.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Putnam, who has written extensively about social capital in American society in his book, Bowling Alone. The program is an experimental playground that bridges artists, students, chefs, comedians, hairdressers, bartenders, dancers, wrestlers and even tattoo artists to produce a community-led event.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Live Music Battles Live music battles make for great events because you can find a lot of excellent musical talent who want to get their names out there. For a fun twist, nonprofits can design some of the trivia around their own causes and values, reiterating their impact on supporters.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2006

One of the projects she helped create was an investigation of the impact of images of women in popular music videos on young women and young men. Their findings are captured in a video they made last year with Beyondmedia Education , Respect Me, Don’t Media Me Anne Elizabeth Moore, 35, Chicago, IL What makes her REALLY hot?

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Concert Bring together local music lovers for an unforgettable evening that highlights your nonprofit’s mission. And you don’t need famous musical groups either: Local acts with local fan bases are a great way to attract audiences and put on a great show. Art Exhibition You can never go wrong with highlighting local artists.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? The book is fascinating on multiple levels.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2008

Which has more social impact: the place frequented by educated art lovers or the one populated by blue collar joes? And yet here they were streaming into a place where they would spend hundreds of dollars on art, pore intently over books of images and talk earnestly with the artists about their vision. Well, I'm not.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

And the types of social impact games that exist are really varied -- from real-world games that are location specific, to polished multimedia games you can play on any web browser. Before the end of the year we conducted a survey to find out what the Games for Change community believed were the best social impact games of 2010.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Fundraising during Covid has been disruptive for everyone – every single sector has been impacted but particularly those that work in event fundraising. Awards ceremonies are a wonderful way to draw your community in by highlighting individuals who have made an impact. Have your lead artist jump on and run the class on Zoom.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

I am recommending the transcript of Clay Shirky's speech about Gin, Television, and Social Surplus , in which he argues that the next twenty years will be marked by people's slow, incremental, and astoundingly impactful awakening from being passive consumers (of TV) to partly active content creators. But one page! From the Web 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Nest is a nonprofit organization that empowers female artists and artisans around the world. You can listen to it on the little player below, on the Big Vision Podcast website , or download it from the iTunes Music Store. We partner with existing NGOs, or international organizations that are already working with women artists.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

This week's Ask Britt question, sent in by a reader, is, "How can I combine the creative arts with social impact? What are some great examples of creative work that is very effective in social impact?" Our mission is to strengthen the voice of activist artists - 'Artivists' - while raising public awareness for social global causes."

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Since many of your board members are professionals in the charitable space, they likely know other high impact supporters to contact and request gifts from. Depending on your budget, you may be able to get a popular artist, but you can also reach out to local musicians. Art show – Are there any local artists in your area?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

At the adjacent table, my colleague Stacey Garcia was meeting with a local artist, Kyle Lane-McKinley, to talk about an upcoming project. I don't know what formed the bridge between the artists and the teens in this circumstance. On the third floor, they sat down in our creativity lounge and started making collages.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Created by video artist Wendy Clarke, and eventually part of the Exploratorium's collection, the Love Tapes project features visitors of all kinds sharing their personal experiences of love. First, the music. Tags: exhibition Book Discussion: Visitor Voices. What better example of this distinction than the Love Tapes?

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Voice Museum Vietnam Music 20

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Last month I posted about one of my favorite books this year, Women Who Light the Dark, by photojournalist, Paola Gianturco. She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. I am a photojournalist and have just published my fourth book, Women Who Light The Dark.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now. We'll be taking with arts activist Alli Chagi-Starr, the Cultural Arts Director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights ' Reclaim the Future Program.

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