Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. Such strategies help bridge the gap between physical and digital experiences, expand brand loyalty and recognition, as well as build trust sustainably.

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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. Some of these experiments didn''t yield anything useful, but some were surprisingly helpful proxies for complex human interactions.

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Kindful

MAY 1, 2021

Mission: Porter’s Call is a place where artists can find counsel, support, and encouragement, specifically attuned to their unique profession. Their mission is to provide a safe environment where individuals with shared experiences provide hope, restoration, and resources that lead their members to a life unexpected. Youth Homes.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

If so, be sure to stock lots of inexpensive and fun items for children. Enlist an impartial third party to visit your shop and feedback on their experience. Work with a local artist to create artworks inspired by your collection. Do lots of families visit your museum? Does your museum cater more towards the design conscious?

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Have your local wine expert guide you all through the different wines via livestream to complete the experience. Give your donors the full movie night experience with a virtual viewing party. 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.

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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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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

They follow some basic steps to move their normal in-person event to an online experience. Arrange a Program: Where you typically would have speakers, entertainment, food, and decor to plan at the venue, now you’ll want to think about providing a seamless experience via a livestream. Which parts of this can be moved online?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

One of the big themes in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , is the importance of experiments and not to frame them as success or failure but as learning. He also did not find the successful inventions with his first experiment. You have to be like Thomas Edison in approaching social media and experiment.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

There's the barrier of artistic quality--funders, trustees, or staff members who argue that work by non-canonical artists is not up to the standards of the institution. Reading the report, I kept thinking of Rick Lowe, the artist and community activist behind Project Row Houses in Houston.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 23, 2016

Because when potential supporters experience your real stories of impact, they’re more inclined to join your fight. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. Visitors are not building exhibits from scratch or designing their own science experiments. This is a problem for two reasons.

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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. We've increased attendance among people who are new to museum experiences. Engagement with local artists.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. Visitors are not building exhibits from scratch or designing their own science experiments. This is a problem for two reasons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2008

I started my  Day of Service experience at Friendship Public Charter School  at the Southeast Elementary Academy  in the school cafeteri where volunteers were hard at work painting two murals.      I met both of the artists and did live stream interviews with them. 

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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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Two exceptional examples of community committees stand out: one long standing, The Community Advisory Committees of The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience and one emerging, the Creative Community Council of the Children’s Creativity Museum.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Some of us have children. The artist was masterful not only in her technical skill but also in her way with people. I wished I could relate the enormity of the pumpkin or lessons learned, but alas, she was the one who lived that particular experience. I’m glad to be known that way. We all have things, as my boss said recently.

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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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

We've actually been experimenting quite a lot with this here at the MAH with a simple project called the Five Friday card. This experiment was surprisingly successful; despite the busy holiday season, we had 18 people complete the challenge (out of 500 cards distributed). Capture the flag.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

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. There is potential for creating a game for that experience, especially with the participants.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Children of the Lodz Ghetto ). Everyone can have her own personal experience of history. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

In December 2006, I launched my first experiment in using social media for fundraising - raising $800 on my blog to help send Leng Sopharath, a young Cambodian woman, to her freshman year at college. Cambodia brought me my two beautiful children and I felt strongly that we should give back to the country in some way.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

The institutions that seem most prey to a "cookie cutter" approach are science centers and children's museums. I think this is a particular shame because children's museums and science centers have the greatest opportunity to introduce young visitors to the special delights of a uniquely community-focused, idiosyncratic approach.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. Major research studies by the NEA and others demonstrate that adults well into their 60s are highly motivated to participate actively with cultural experiences. What are you doing to design interactive experiences that are adult-friendly?

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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. So if your child wants to use their social network to raise money for a good cause, getting involved will help you keep them (and their personal information) safe from would-be scam artists and predators.

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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. Instant accomplishment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

They’re jocks, geeks, artists, musicians and cheerleaders…and we need their help. This is about facilitating discovery, nurturing trust, sharing experiences, and light-weight focused request/responses.”. On poster children & social investment. “I There’s these kids sitting at the other lunch tables in our global cafeteria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2005

Before I go on about this interesting artist/social activist project, I found it in the blogsphere. I've been experimenting with cambodia4kids.org blog to test out the instructions/advice I'm reading on various npotech sites about blogs. C4C will put cameras in the hands of children aged 10-16. 1684 Grand Avenue St.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Art Exhibition You can never go wrong with highlighting local artists. Holiday Bazaar Host a holiday bazaar that brings local artisans and vendors together to showcase their wares, creating a festive shopping experience for the community. They are often held as a part of an annual gala, but they don’t have to be.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

ChildrensHealth : Children's hospitals always need toys this time of year. Shelters R being overwhelmed because people R losing homes/can't afford pets. ALSofGNY : Offer to make up Pre-Addressed, Stamped Envelopes/Cards for people with disabilities for them to send out for the holidays.

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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. How did the museum staff respond to this experience? I spoke with Nikki this week to learn more about the Ministry and their fun and games. How did this project come about?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2009

Other people experience a series of moments that build upon one another. At the time, I was a program director for an arts education program and a facilitator of career counseling workshops for artists. Clinton Global Initiative -- Q&A with Maya Ajmera, Global Fund for Children by Mitch Nauffts on PhilanTopic.

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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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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

The Odditoreum is a temporary gallery for the summer school holiday in which the Powerhouse is displaying eighteen very odd objects alongside fanciful (and fictitious) labels written by children's book author Shaun Tan, schoolchildren, and visitors. People are having fun with this experience, and who can blame them?

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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 may be a good place to fund small experiments or to jump start campaigns.

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