Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! What is Human Centered Design? Understanding: Methods for Analyzing Challenges and Opportunities.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The Décor Committee Chair is not just a role; it’s an artistic endeavor that combines meticulous planning , creative vision, and a touch of magic. Your keen eye for detail, artistic flair, and passion for creating visually stunning experiences will play a crucial role in the success of the event.

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Forum One

MARCH 23, 2023

Crafting digital experiences for institutions thought of as “in-person” or “hands-on” may seem like a challenge, but it’s a practice we relish at Forum One. In 2022, Forum One helped NMAAHC conceive of, design, and execute an online experience that carried signature NMAAHC and Seat at the Table branding and digital experience to a new format.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Last week, as part of my museum's year-long Loyalty Lab project , we hosted a workshop for Bay Area museum professionals with special guests Ian Kizu-Blair and Sam Lavigne of the game design firm Situate. Ian and Sam design real-world games that encourage people to engage in ordinary environments in extraordinary ways. It's not easy.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Fitness Challenges Create inexpensive fitness challenges like 5Ks or yoga sessions, with entrants gathering pledges that support your cause by supporting their participation. To really get the juices flowing, make it an online challenge where people get their family and friends involved. Books rule.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. What if they used a design thinking process to not only get feedback from grantees but as a way to develop a more agile way of working? Why Use One?

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Make sure to advertise your artists and makers on your social media platforms leading up to the opening of your shop with photos and videos. Designate a night for a few fun games of virtual bingo. Give your artistic students the opportunity to show off their skills by hosting a virtual art show. Coaches talent challenge.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With over 15 years of Association experience and 10 years of technical Salesforce experience, I provide solution architecture and design oversight, ensuring that each team tailors our platform – making the right decisions and using the right methods – to reduce confusion and enable greatness. Fun Fact about Adam.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Are your supporters artistic? Once you’ve identified those things, design your peer-to-peer event around one of those interests or areas. To make things fun, consider hosting fun social media challenges that your supporters can complete under your hashtag. Do many of your donors own pets? Do they love music?

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Keeping donors engaged and giving during uncertain times can often feel like a challenging balancing act, but new technologies and strategies are available to keep us centered. A unique NFT will be designed by an artist and auctioned off during the event, with proceeds donated through the auction directly supporting the organization.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 4, 2024

However, keeping the momentum alive can be challenging for organizations of all types, especially when managing a large supporter base or dealing with internal and external changes. For example, you might ask an artist volunteer to design graphics for your website.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Creating Cultures and Practices for Racial Equity: A Toolbox for Advancing Racial Equity for Arts and Cultural Organizations , by Race Forward This toolkit aims to help artists, arts advocates, culture bearers, and cultural workers to imagine, plan, and implement racial equity strategies in their organizations.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 20, 2022

Use a minimalist design. Create unique designs. Before you start designing new fundraising flyers, let’s lay the groundwork for what you need to know before designing your new fundraising flyer. You can use the same digital design with slight alterations to easily integrate paper fliers into your flier campaign.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2021

While the pandemic has had a significant impact on artists and cultural institutions, it has forced many to take a fresh look at how they are building immersive, innovative digital experiences for arts and culture. The Frist Art Museum is a destination for art, culture, and community in Nashville, TN.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

And while I’m usually able to offer some general guidance, nonprofit website design best practices have never been my area of expertise. Recently, I sat down with TJ Nicolaides and Allison Hossack of Think Company , a Philadelphia based design firm specializing in research, strategy, development, and design. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute , and a Jedi Master. ” What is Human Centered Design?

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 24, 2015

Enacted in 1998, it’s the law of the digital land, protecting all content published online under the same copyright laws enjoyed by musical artists, novelists, videographers etc. Our nonprofit clients consistently tell us their biggest challenges are improving donor engagement and promoting their mission online.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. The result was a true experiment in designing the future--right here, right now--with artists and planners and civic leaders at the helm together. Invitation works better than confrontation.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

We had about thirty participants ranging from MAH trustees to artists, educators to architects, moms to grandfathers. They spent the first half of their time not even mentioning the museum--just talking about challenges that commuters face, their exhaustion and stress, and the ways that their work separates them from the community.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Now they have even more challenges ahead of them in figuring out their life paths. Every era in history has needed artists, writers, comedians, graphic designers, commentators, pundits, and others to pull the curtain aside, à la Dorothy ’ s dog Toto in The Wizard of Oz , and show us what ’ s really going on.

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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. Bowl-a-Thon.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it. Every Saturday, the curatorial team at Elsewhere , a living museum in downtown Greensboro, NC, reviews the project proposals of its artists-in-residence.

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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? And heads up!

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

It can sometimes be a challenge to attract enough volunteers to your organization or event. Some possible remote volunteer jobs include writing newsletters, designing websites, consulting and even making small items that can be mailed in. Maybe shaking up your recruiting methods will help.

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Achieve

JANUARY 18, 2023

For instance, you can post images from the last time you held this event if it’s recurring, or create an engaging graphic design that highlights the logistical details of your event and what attendees can expect if they attend. Post exciting content on relevant. social media.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Canva is a great tool for designing images. Design a local route with varying distances to be both competitive and family-friendly. If you want to up the ante, consider a Waiter’s Race (perfect if you’re a food bank) that challenges a racer’s speed and ability to keep a tray stable without spilling. Bike-a-Thon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. The challenge for every business, organization, and nonprofit or for-profit company is that the world of social media is like the Wild Wild West. Trust me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

So, I designed a training curriculum that embraces thoughtful do-it-yourself social media experiments and a process for learning from them. 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.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

Spread over three months and six cities, the festival presents a big challenge in keeping visitors engaged and informed. To tackle the challenge, Zero1 decided to create an app. A core group of interns assembled by Siembieda-Gribben will go on to develop the winning team's idea, using an API designed by Lift Projects for Zero1.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

A Selection of Strategic Game Design Lessons for Nonprofits. Design Process. Games structure participation in vital civic actions like voting, budgeting, advocacy, movement-building, solving major challenges, and simulations for disaster preparedness. (BS). How to Design. Nonprofits Live! Game Audiences. community. (BJ).

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

Knight Foundation through their Knight Cities Challenge grant, Next Stop: Democracy! Over the course of our 24-week voter engagement campaign, NSD hired 60 artists to create 60 “Vote Here/Vote Aqui” signs. The artists came from more than 20 different Philadelphia neighborhoods. Involve Artists from the Very Beginning.

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

Hire a talented artist to create real-time illustrations in a session. Sophisticated virtual event platforms come with this technology, and you can design a custom virtual environment for your event! Social Media Challenge. When it comes to virtual event ideas, the social media challenge is a good one! Cocktail Class.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 26, 2012

posted by Leslie Beecher , Instructional Designer. In today’s world, job roles are constantly changing and new challenges arise in the workplace. Over the past four years, I have worked as an instructional designer in the for-profit education world and am excited to have transitioned into the nonprofit sector.

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Forum One

JUNE 6, 2024

This is the third in a four-part blog series, Building Trust and Credibility Through Design, based on a webinar led by Forum One’s Vice President of Design. Similar to performances, designs weave stories. Design your digital platforms with the same user experience in mind. Watch the webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2005

And, for a museum that is presenting contemporary art -- anything that helps us demystify the artistic process and better understand the art is, in my opinion, a good thing. What are some of the challenges to blogging in a nonprofit arts organization? The biggest challenge is to get people to contribute a few hours a.

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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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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

Community artists gave their honest feedback, and we crafted a display based on these discussions and their contributions. Some community artists even helped install the space. Visitors Going Rogue We collaborated formally with community artists to design Thread Studio; once it opened, the participation expanded to museum visitors.

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