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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Nestled in a forest of high-rise apartment buildings, this small museum connects children and families with contemporary art. Like the New Children's Museum in San Diego, Hello Museum creates building-wide interactive exhibitions with artists, on themes like nature and #NoWar. It's about them connecting with each other.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Ever since the advent of the internet, the retail landscape has changed drastically. E-commerce has forever changed the way people shop, and your organization can use that to your advantage with wish list drives. Give your artistic students the opportunity to show off their skills by hosting a virtual art show. Wishlist drives.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

I’m at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! We are trying to change the visitors’ experience at the museum as well as ownership of what is in the museum, break down the walls between the public and the museum. My focus is on how children learn science.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Click here to listen to a very brief interview Over the weekend, I attended the Technology in the Arts Conference in Pittsburgh where artist and activist Faith Ringgold was one of the keynote speakers. " I had a chance to do a quick video interview with her about her thoughts on women artists. They are brilliant!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The Adobe Foundation is a private 501(c)(3) foundation created and funded by Adobe to drive social change and improve the communities in which Adobe employees live and work. Grant Programs from the Adobe Foundation. Youth Services. Youth Voices: Creating with Purpose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Submitted by Stacey Monk, founder of Epic Change There’s an ever-burgeoning number of forums, chats, conferences, meetups destination websites, competitions, you-name-it, for dogooders. They’re jocks, geeks, artists, musicians and cheerleaders…and we need their help. Doing good isn’t our job, it’s everyone’s. Generic license ).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This week, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released a new paper by Holly Sidford called Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change. Even as demographics change and public participation in the arts shifts away from these Euro-traditional formats, the money still flows down the old pathways. The title may sound innocuous.

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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. Have your lead artist jump on and run the class on Zoom. Zoom to the rescue!

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 23, 2016

A volunteer sharing how investments of time became the fruits of change in their community. So I hope you find some pearls of inspiration to elevate your most atomic stories —because great artists (and marketers) always steal. #1 1 Save the Children: “Most Shocking Second a Day” (2 min).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2017

It addresses veteran unemployment and climate change by providing paid internships and job skills training for unemployed and low-income veterans. The organization provides services to assist women and families with children in maintaining and improving their health in the face of HIV/AIDS. Navy, created a solar-powered organic garden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

My role changed from the “expert&# to guide on the side. Change needs to happen now or organizations risk playing a game of catch up. 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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

You do not need to be an “artist” to make a postcard, but each participant is surprised and delighted by their creativity and to see that their cards contain colors, words and images that reflect their strongest selves. Connecting personal wisdom to effect positive change is our goal. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. I'm at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! We are trying to change the visitors' experience at the museum as well as ownership of what is in the museum, break down the walls between the public and the museum.

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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. In 2013, I am focused on changing that. 4) Read more books.

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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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See3

JUNE 3, 2009

The GATC’s most distinguished project to date is the Genesis World Music Ensemble, or the Saffron Caravan, which brings together music artists from the Middle East, North Africa and the Americas to revisit, reinvent and link musical traditions. Some of us feel trapped in our professions and wonder, can we really change the world?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. Young, old, poor, rich, conservative, liberal, urban, rural, black, white, brown, red, yellow, gay, straight, preps, goths, rappers, artists, hippies, yuppies… you name it. So, my Ode to MySpace: 1.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Some of us have children. It’s about knowing you can change them or weather them. The artist was masterful not only in her technical skill but also in her way with people. I’m glad to be known that way. Like all people, my insides broil and burble with the stresses of life. We all have things, as my boss said recently.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

More than any generation before, kids in “Gen Z” use online technology to experience, understand, and change their world. Gen Z kids have taken Mahatma Gandhi’s instruction to “be the change they wish to see in the world” to heart. Small Givers, Big Impact. Helping Your Teen Give Back.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

It changes kids'' lives. 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. You run a program. It builds more responsible environmental stewards. It strengthens your community. To be playful.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2015

That means you don’t change your message. Hungry children in Brazil? Enslaved children in the far east? Artists in your community? It’s the least you can do! Donor knows what to expect in each interaction with you. You need to be consistent every time you communicate with your donor. Stay on message!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2012

One director of a children's museum even told me that they "eventize" normal operations--calling a Saturday a "family festival" without changing the planned programming--to draw more people. Zoos, aquaria, science and children's museums boast a significant "anytime" audience of families who return again and again.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

The site also features recommendations on things like which privacy settings to use on different devices, the ins and outs of parental controls , and basic rules for appropriate sharing for children on Facebook and other social media sites. We recommend this resource to libraries and any charity that works with children of any age.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

Cambodia brought me my two beautiful children and I felt strongly that we should give back to the country in some way. Plus he will also donate $5000 to Epic Change. I have used social media to help raise the money for her tuition through the Sharing Foundation in 2007 and 2008.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Children of the Lodz Ghetto ). Finally, many art museums do fabulous, highly participatory projects that are led by participatory artists who work specifically in the realm of dialogue or active social participation. Children's Museums OPPORTUNITIES - Like science centers, children's museums are highly interactive and visitor-centered.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

To make ends meet, artists would sometimes team up as a studio — helping each other come up with ideas, chipping in when someone was in danger of missing a deadline, teaching each other tips and tricks. Here in the Everglades, the signs of climate change are unmistakable — and tragic. 22 EMAIL LEDES THAT ALWAYS WORK!! Devastation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 15, 2009

Five shows I listen to fairly regularly are: 501c3Cast with Corey Pudhorodsky Corey's shows are a great resource for nonprofit professionals, and anyone interested in nonprofits and social change. They often interview children as sources for their stories. Some shows feature young "digital diarists" sharing their opinions and ideas.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Artistic Director Diane Paulus has spoken powerfully about her desire to transform Oberon, the Donkey Show's venue, into an atypical theater space by stripping away all A.R.T. Ending the experience can be particularly painful for children, who may have to be dragged from the museum sobbing. Our rules define us.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. There's a huge difference between the edgy, DIY beauty of Candy Chang 's participatory urban artworks and the dayglow colors, exclamatory language , and preschool fonts of most museum interactives.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

It was a quintessential Davos moment that drives home the accessibility of world and corporate leaders to each other and to social entrepreneurs, religious figures, artists, and the leaders of non-governmental organisations and trade unions.

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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. The PeaFund Friday Campaign PeaFund Friday is an amazing example of the power of social media for social change. There is a category for Changing the World. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007. Go vote here.

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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. career activism social change Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Fashion Show Hold a fashion show that gives local designers and businesses a change to display their latest styles while creating a theme that ties into your cause. Art Exhibition You can never go wrong with highlighting local artists. These events not only inform and educate; they also inspire positive change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

I've even taught my children about creative commons (check out Harry's screencast - What A Second Grader Knows About Creative Commons that earned him a feature story in the School Library Association Journal) All of this assumes that people really bother to look at the license, understand it , and respect the rules. to Change The World.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

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. Kickstarter is a symptom of changes in donor culture. In one case, a man in Texas donated $1,000 to the campaign.

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