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

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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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. Autumn Paint & Sip Night.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Organizational updates can also include announcements of conferences or fund-raisers, staff changes, or any recent awards or accolades your nonprofit has received. Interview a professor, government official, or esteemed professional, such as a scientist, social worker, activist, or artist. It makes them feel special and important.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Organizations are complex and the four frames do not change that. As Bolman and Deal say, framing and reframing is about giving people a palette with an array of options in order to be artists in the search for quality, commitment and creativity in organizations. The picture may become a little clearer. It can be confusing.

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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

JULY 28, 2011

is by an entirely different artist. The latest: The Climate Hot Map , from the Union of Concerned Scientists, which tracks the effects of global warming climate change global climate disruption around the world. We love that longtime NTEN Member David Krumlauf posted a picture of how he was using some NTEN gear.

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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! The result was an 800 page book of narratives, pictures, stories, and much more that will now be part of the library's collection.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Organizational updates can also include announcements of conferences or fund-raisers, staff changes, or any recent awards or accolades your nonprofit has received. Interview a professor, government official, or esteemed professional, such as a scientist, social worker, activist, or artist. It makes them feel special and important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Many of them, like the lightbulb , the phonograph , and the motion picture camera , were brilliant creations that have a huge influence on our everyday life. 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. Participants Are The Content.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 12, 2012

This is a picture of the largest temporary exhibition gallery in the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. To create an installation that changes. I feel great about both of these goals, and I feel even better about the amazing artists , innovators , and historians we're working with to make it happen.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Some history museums, including the Brooklyn Museum and the Sandy Springs Museum , have implemented innovative programs inviting artists into storage and galleries to create new works with collection items. But what about the potential creator who happens into an exhibit, gets an idea, and takes a picture?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

When the music video was not focused on Mexican culture, no such change occurred. Our theory of change posits that when we develop projects that bridge “unexpected connections” between diverse people and ideas, people build understanding and social capital with community members from different cultures, generations, and backgrounds.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. We''re working on a theory of change. We have to change it. We wrote a new mission statement. She is right.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song. You can also rate frames, which changes their likelihood of being displayed in the default video, which features the highest-ranked frames submitted by participants. That's hardly revolutionary.

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Qgiv

APRIL 27, 2022

From pet portraits to wedding day portraits, partner with a local artist to raffle off custom art pieces to your donors. Taking your car in for oil changes and tire rotations can get pricey. Reserved parking space. Car servicing. Simple home goods basket. Gift certificates.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Here's a picture of it in action. Community members, artists, and organizations increasingly see our museum as a place where they can advance their own goals, and so they approach us. To me, this is an example of how the aggregation of participatory practices fundamentally changes the role that an organization has in its community.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2011

She is a fabulous and thoughtful artist. The same day we opened the Creativity Lounge, we opened new exhibitions throughout the building, including a paper collage show in the 3rd floor lobby by local artist Lisa Hochstein. Now, two weeks later, I contacted Lisa again to ask if her opinion had changed after spending time in the space.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Organizational updates can also include announcements of conferences or fund-raisers, staff changes, or any recent awards or accolades your nonprofit has received. Interview a professor, government official, or esteemed professional, such as a scientist, social worker, activist, or artist. It makes them feel special and important.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Shoutouts to donors on images and cover pictures. These are icons or image overlays that you add to your profile picture the same way people do declare they voted, or donated blood, or got vaccinated. Sometimes a nonprofit has access to world-class chefs, celebrities, artists, or architects or well-known lawmakers.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

They're playing instruments, painting pictures, and cooking gourmet meals in record numbers. 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. They're going to trivia night.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 16, 2010

How will getting rid of these 11 things change your life? My fabulous friend Heather Meyer (pictured above) taught it, and it was awesome. As I mentioned in a post last week , I'd like to teach a a class in 2011 about The Art of Blogging: Creating Juicy Content for Artists, Writers, Creative Entrepreneurs and Do-Gooders.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A cheerful curly-haired deli owner stands in front of 30 of us and shares a quote he loves: "Artists live in the present and write detailed histories of the future." Writing a vision can empower you, clarify your thinking, and help you change the world. Something tells me this is not the business visioning workshop I anticipated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The next morning participants gathered to make individual and collective sense of the ideas that were shared by experts. The techniques that help you get at understanding are not always fun or easy to do. It requires stepping back and seeing the big picture. How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

So, unless you’re going to be making changes and running tests to see how those behaviors change, it’s only part of the picture. I also think you should steal like an artist. Incorporating ideas from your favorite web experiences is an easy way to make user-based changes.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

I'm not going to comment on the reasons for the millage or its merits from an arts management perspective--please check out Diane Ragsdale's excellent post for a round-up of commentary and some hard-hitting opinions about the big picture. This perspective was rampant in Michigan. Your cultural outlet is art galleries and symphonies.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

This was the main aim of this year’s summer exhibition at Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum, Top 40: Countdown of Worcester’s Favourite Pictures. Written interpretation about the pictures was kept to a minimum, although we did include family-orientated activity workstations relating to five individual paintings.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. This afternoon I went to the library in Haarlem Oost to take your pictures. For the past year, I've been ending many of my talks with this image. A Dutch friend volunteered to go snap the library.

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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. The museum's page is much simpler.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

American Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis is considered the first woman of Native American and African descent to achieve international fame as a sculptor at a time when artists of color were hardly celebrated and slavery was still legal. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2012

At the NTEN NTC conference this year, I did a session on data visualization for nonprofits called “ Picturing Your Data Is Better Than 1000 Numbers ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. Visual Thinking Presentation for UnitedHealth Innovation Day. View more presentations from burowe.

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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. I'm sure it changes over time, but at the moment, what is the biggest challenge you face in reaching your mission? We partner with existing NGOs, or international organizations that are already working with women artists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

Leading edge organizations are putting the bots to work for social change. To share its entire collection with art lovers, the museum created the “Send Me” bot allows anyone to send a simple text message and receive a picture of a piece of art matching the idea, words, or phrase texted. Unicef’s bot has had some early successes.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 22, 2015

over sound bites and pictures. Of course NPO brochures and web pages have long used pictures to draw in readers, but such imagery should be seen as something to use across all marketing platforms. Infographics.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So quantitative data is really, you know, that ordered kind of big picture information. Impressions, opinions, increases in knowledge, change in behavior that might not be, you know, something that we can capture objectively. What are the life changes that result from those services? We’ve been teaching a lot recently.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Currently, we are halfway through 2021 and the fundraising event landscape has changed tremendously within the last year. Want to see this in action, check out the Brandywine Valley SPCA Picture Pawfect Pet Photo Contest ! Depending on your budget, you may be able to get a popular artist, but you can also reach out to local musicians.

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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. An interactive changes that. How do you acknowledge their participation in a way that helps subsequent visitors connect with the passion and hard work that went into the process?

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