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. For fall, offer picture options that include themed-subject matter like pumpkins or the changing of the leaves. Your artist just has to log in and lead class virtually. Trivia Night. come judge the contest.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Do the necessary market research to learn which foundations—local, regional and national—are funding nonprofits like yours. Be open to collaborating on programs, events, and funding opportunities with other local organizations that serve the same or complementary constituencies. Do you serve K-12 students? Senior citizens?

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Create a series of challenges that test team skills, endurance, and aptitude with a games tournament. Teams can register to compete in different challenges with the top scorers winning a prize! Get local businesses involved for prize sponsorships, and make it a public, fun event that everyone can come and watch. Crowdfunding.

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M+R

MAY 10, 2021

Our society is marked by inequities of race, gender, ability, and more—and the content we create can either challenge these inequities or reinforce them. Additionally, you may see special characters used to create artistic typefaces for profiles on Twitter and Instagram. The good news?

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Achieve

JANUARY 18, 2023

these helpful marketing materials can engage prospective supporters in your local community or be taken online to maximize attendance. Let’s take a closer look at these cons and how you can optimize your virtual fundraising approach to navigate around these common challenges. . According to. Kwala’s guide to fundraising flyers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In order to do this, they need to work with free agents, hyper-connected individuals who are passionate about social change, but don’t work within institutional walls. Our session will explore how and why this needs to change. What are the change issues for traditional nonprofits that want to become “networked nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

As courageous citizens connected with each other to express dissent and organize public actions, social media tools spurred activism and social change in unprecedented ways. Chalk up my vote for 2011’s “Best Debut Artist” and “Best Supporting Actor.”. As Beth Kanter invokes: Crawl, Walk, Run and Fly.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Two years ago, our team at the MAH embarked on our most challenging co-creation project ever. 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. Short story: we learned a lot. We wrote a toolkit about our process.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2017

We're halfway through 2017, and civil society has been handed some serious challenges. Given these difficult times, we'd like to feature some local organizations that are doing great work, but not getting a lot of attention every day. Federal services that underserved populations depend upon are becoming less reliable.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

These frustrations are causing barriers to entry for first-time voters, senior voters who’ve had their polling places change year to year, new Philadelphians, recent immigrants and more. Knight Foundation through their Knight Cities Challenge grant, Next Stop: Democracy! Involve Artists from the Very Beginning. and James L.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We’re not going to change or redefine what the system looks like, we want to TEACH YOU what it is and how you can be part of it. If we’re going to make any kind of an impact at all, the challenge for white designers right now isn’t just recognizing that you have privilege. Join OUR system. But At What Cost? The Design Justice Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community. James assembled a group of funders and the talented Clay Lord from Theatre Bay Area , a local arts service organization to help implement project.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

In this guest post, Stefania Van Dyke, Master Teacher for Textile Art and Special Projects, tells the story of how the co-creative development and visitor participation in the “Thread Studio” that accompanied their 2013 summer exhibition, Spun, changed her perspective on her own work. Some community artists even helped install the space.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Things must change. Schools and other arts organizations are rising to the challenge. Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. Could your director or other senior staff join local initiatives on this topic? We are not enough on our own.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

Games structure participation in vital civic actions like voting, budgeting, advocacy, movement-building, solving major challenges, and simulations for disaster preparedness. (BS). Real world games include game dynamics for civic learning, play and performance, and crowdsourcing social change. (BS). How to Design. community. (BJ).

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Please note that because the conversations take place over six years, some people's work and lives have changed. Organizer, Bakesale for Japan listen Naomi Natale, Founding Artist, One Million Bones listen Halle Butvin, Founder and Director, One Mango Tree listen Carinne Brody, Doctoral Candidate in Public Health at UC Berkeley.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Each time a donor makes a purchase at a participating business, the rounded-up change goes to the nonprofit of his or her choice. If you’re unfamiliar with the site, it’s a place for start-ups, artists, and local organizations to promote specific projects in order to receive funding. Click here to check out Leo’s profile.)

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

In particular, we want exhibition collaborators--artists, researchers, historians, collectors--to understand our goals and how we intend to steer the exhibition development process. We challenged our partners, they challenged us, and we all learned a lot from the experience.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We are unapologetic about focusing local. Focusing local helps us define our community by identity. We have partnered with the county-wide community assessment project to learn more about the demographics, interests, and needs of local residents. We exist for people who live in Santa Cruz County. Let’s start with empowerment.

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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. 10) Hybrid concerts.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. What values change in that not so subtle shift between people, things, and the common space shared between them? They sold army surplus in catalog sales to boy scouts.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are lots of ways to do peer-to-peer fundraisers, and holding events like a bike ride, a cook-off, or a “challenge” (insert first obligatory mention of the Ice Bucket Challenge) are some of the best ones. Cook-Off Does your area have a special dish that is imbued with a lot of local pride? Use that to your advantage!

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. It's always seemed challenging here to find funds for interpretative materials. That said, the fact that we work with contemporary artists can also create a lot of stress in our institutional systems. Can you give me an example?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In a lot of ways, our successful turnaround at the MAH has been driven by both embracing incremental change and opening up clear opportunities for community organizations and individuals to "plug" their cultural brilliance into our space. We invited local artists and community groups to perform. We scrounged for free couches.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I like to ask myself this question periodically, challenging myself to find substantive ways for visitors to contribute to our museum. A local engineer, Greg McPheeters, brought his tandem-bike powered recycled couch to our Trash to Treasure festival last Friday night. How do community members make your institution better?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

When we work with diverse collaborators, from opera singers and ukelele players to knitters and graffiti artists, we catalyze new partnerships and relationships that make our community stronger and more cohesive. You want to have an artist collective sleepover at the museum? We believe in fearless experimentation. Sounds great.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Please note that because the conversations take place over five years, some people's work and lives have changed. Listen / Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder, Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder, Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, Filmmaker, A Drop of Life. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Nonprofit organizations have a lot of challenges relating to fundraising. Many of us are familiar with local businesses sponsoring local sports teams. Do you have something similar to offer possibly through a partnership with a local art collective or other nonprofit? Is there something like this you can try?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

This is a big change for me--professionally and personally--and I'm thrilled and humbled by the opportunity to take on this position in the city I call home. There are three reasons that I am absolutely ecstatic about this change. The content is multidisciplinary, with a collection that includes both local history and contemporary art.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

I''d just met a local researcher and I thought she''d be a great person to talk to about it. We ran with it and have since generated data about decision-making, cooperation, competition and negotiation for scientists (and also some artists) to play with. I came to her with an idea I called "Gut Sense." as a part of Experimonth: Race.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

You could do it for any number of days (I picked 40 because I was turning 40), and during any time of transition: birthday, anniversary, moving, new job, end of a job or relationship, start of a new relationship, engagement, marriage, pregnancy, birth, a change in your parenting role, etc. class at a local belly dance fitness studio, Hipline.

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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. 1stfans is an attempt to change that by providing specific benefits targeted to those audiences' needs. There are both virtual-only and local 1stfan members. This was made for them.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Emily started by honing in on local teens' assets: creativity, activist energy, desire to make a difference, desire to be heard, free time in the afternoon. She surveyed existing local programs. Subjects to Change was born. Subjects to Change isn't rooted in our collection, exhibitions, or existing museum programs.

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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. A lot of things have changed since 2002. out there to inspire people and give them the tools they need to create change. out there to inspire people and give them the tools they need to create change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Please note that because the interviews take place over four years, some people's work and lives may have changed. Listen / Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder, Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder of Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, filmmaker, A Drop of Life. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Please note that because the interviews take place over three years, some people's work has changed. Listen / Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder of the Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace, Founder of Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, Filmmaker, A Drop of Life. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy. Are you hiring locally? Are you using local suppliers?

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