CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Learn how Summit Assistance Dogs and Arizona Friends of Foster Children Foundation ran massively successful virtual fundraising events : Tip: Schedule a demo with our team on how you can quickly start a campaign site for your virtual fundraising event. Teams can register to compete in different challenges with the top scorers winning a prize!

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

If you know you have a supporter base that are planning to give up drinks, treats, or Starbucks, challenge them to donate what they would spend on those weekly cocktails or daily croissants to your cause. Take a hike” day or Sponsored Step Challenge. Give it up for Lent (varies; usually in March). The Michael J. Themed Bake-off.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2017

We're halfway through 2017, and civil society has been handed some serious challenges. They brought forward the current challenges faced by immigrants and refugees to ensure that all people in their communities can achieve their full potential. The organization serves more than 500 women and children each year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Not only does a hand-written thank you note make a strong impression upon the receiver, but it also makes you a better social media manager because it’s a practice in creative arts – and as all we know, the best social media managers are creative artists. Thus, for 2013, please: 1) Ask for a raise. 4) Read more books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

The Joe Goode Dance Company spoke about the challenges of getting an artistic director to Tweet. One of the things they discovered is that their audience wants to hear from the artists. But not all the artists are comfortable on Twitter. Joe Goode Twitter Presentation. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

I grew up professionally in the science and children's museum field, where touching is guaranteed and floor staff spend more time helping visitors learn and ensuring their personal safety than they do protecting the objects. This challenge is exacerbated by several factors including: Inconsistent level of touching allowed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The Lifehacker post, Challenge Your Creativity with Limits, Not Freedom , reminds us: "Dr. Seuss famously bet that he could write a children''s book [ Green Eggs and Ham ] using only 50 unique words. A Q&A with artist Phil Hansen , Hansen says: "It’s hard to get people to focus on plan B when plan A is working so well.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

They present masterpieces by white male artists and innovations by white male scientists. When non-white stories are told, they are always flagged as such--an exhibition of Islamist scientific inventions or women pioneers or African-American artists. Not as humans, or artists, or scientists, or dancers. I am a white woman.

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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. Over the past seven years, this exploration has been undertaken by a staff of artists and more than 35 creators each year participating in our residency program.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

While it's true that art museums have some particular challenges, so do all kinds of institutions in their own ways. This post outlines what I see as the opportunities and challenges for different kinds of museums in pursuing participatory visitor engagement. Children of the Lodz Ghetto ).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

We encouraged teams to think like artists, not researchers. People x (Food + Place) looked at photos taken by children in a park to understand what contributed to their sense of community. To be speculative. To be playful. To be creative. The San Lorenzo Levee group used movement of homeless people as an indicator of social disruption.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 2, 2006

The Asthma Free School Zone aims to reduce asthma-related illness and absenteeism in school children by creating a protective school zone that is free of unhealthy and unnecessary environmental hazards. As an artist born of artist parents, I thought that seemed a heck of a lot easier than biostatistics. You won't get rich.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Research libraries have been facing daunting challenges in the digital world, but not everything is digital in research and the library really wants to connect people with the curators and staff that can help them. My focus is on how children learn science. Visitors can challenge themselves, each other, etc.

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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. Art Exhibition You can never go wrong with highlighting local artists. Use that to your advantage!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. Once the new signs had been made, I challenged Inspectors to place them somewhere in the museum. I spoke with Nikki this week to learn more about the Ministry and their fun and games.

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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 our world still has tremendous challenges, I think more people, especially young people, realize the importance of being engaged in their communities on a local, national or global level.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2010

Three examples: In the late 1980s, the Brooklyn Children's Museum created an exhibit called Send a Letter to Snoopy. As Kathy McLean noted in Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions , while staff were afraid that typing on the typewriter would be too hard for some young children, "kids lined up to carefully and slowly type their letters."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." He also identifies the new literacies and skills -- and while he is talking about this in the context of children and education.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

A Crowd-Curated Exhibition (Shelley Bernstein), the Tech Virtual Test Zone (me), along with a new participatory research project, Children of the Lodz Ghetto (David Klevan), to talk about our lessons and struggles working with the public to create "museum-quality" exhibitions and research projects. This was particularly true for Click!,

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood, and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. The 2022 Seat the Table program examined “The Triumphs and Challenges of Black Education.”

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Research libraries have been facing daunting challenges in the digital world, but not everything is digital in research and the library really wants to connect people with the curators and staff that can help them. My focus is on how children learn science. Visitors can challenge themselves, each other, etc.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

I was particularly pleased to see young children persuading their parents and grandparents to participate. We are now actively looking at ways to build on this success in all our exhibitions, although it’s a much bigger challenge in touring or artist-curated shows. Just like live reality TV, Top 40 felt like a risk at times.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I might not go to a children's museum for a recharge, nor would I necessarily see myself as a good facilitator if I dragged my friends through a crowded mega-museum. But those goals are secondary to the primary focus on physical challenge and achievement. And the facilitator wants his friends and family to have a good time.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. The 2022 Seat the Table program examined “The Triumphs and Challenges of Black Education.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

The mission of World of Good, as a company, is to create the largest distribution system for fair trade, handmade items from artists' and women's cooperatives around the world. So women cook, clean and take care of their children, and these are all uncompensated activities.

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

NFTs might put the “fun” in Nonfungible, but they come with plenty of significant challenges as well. Recently, Save the Children partnered with NFDoge, a platform that sells “Non-Fungible Doge” artwork. Are there artists or other influencers who might be interested in partnering with your organization to support you through NFTs?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. The experiment studied deferred gratification in children by offering one marshmallow to each child and one additional marshmallow if they could resist the temptation of eating the first one for fifteen minutes. That is an eternity!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Are they wanting to fund children’s programs? That higher education level, the ability to communicate, the ability to complete their education affects probably their spouse or their partner, it might affect their children. If the experience of those children is not positive, then is it really a celebration?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. The 2022 Seat the Table program examined “The Triumphs and Challenges of Black Education.”

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. In DC, I worked half-time for NASA as an electrical engineer and half-time for the Capital Children's Museum (now defunct) as a science educator. So I packed up and moved down the East Coast. I made $26/hour at NASA and $7.25/hour

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

The challenge is to find the way to pull those ideas out. Our participants are like visitors--interested, ready to engage, ready to rise to the challenge. I can talk to an artist about her digital storytelling piece while watching two engineers experiment with a sensor-rich dance floor.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

I am an artist and I was getting my Masters of Fine Arts at the time from John F. Another garden, also in India, has put money into either retirement funds, because the government doesn't give that to them, and funds for parents with disabled children. Britt: Your training is as a fine artist. Kennedy University. It's great.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

For instance, fundraisers can post on social media that if they raise $100 they’ll do the fire ramen challenge. Make sure that your peer-to-peer participants complete the challenge, post a video online, use the necessary hashtags, and link their fundraising pages. This will encourage others to also do the challenge and give!

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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. They were poor already, and he couldn't find work, so that left her the primary breadwinner for all of their children, and because she was living with his family, which is traditional in their society, also for his unwed siblings and parents.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2011

Let's say you spend a year working with a group of teens to co-create an exhibition, or you invite members and local artists to help redesign the lobby. The challenge is for designers to find a way to showcase the participatory process in a way that enhances the final product rather than just feeling like a behind-the-scenes geekfest.

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