Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you’re not “ all signs point to go ,” it may be time to either hang up your shingle or look around and see what other problems you might address. Here are signs your work may be in the danger (red) or caution (yellow) zone, rather than full speed ahead (green) zone: Your budget has stayed the same for quite some time, or it has shrunk.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you’re not “ all signs point to go ,” it’s time to take a look at what your team is doing and how you’re faring based on the metrics that matter most to your nonprofit. Think about your movement, not the current moment in time. . If not, it’s time to get started. . The most successful nonprofits don’t rest on their laurels.

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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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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2017

Given these difficult times, we'd like to feature some local organizations that are doing great work, but not getting a lot of attention every day. The organization provides services to assist women and families with children in maintaining and improving their health in the face of HIV/AIDS.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Many of us feel time-crunched. Now sometimes, "I don''t have enough time," can really mean, "I''m exhausted and need more sleep," or "I''m afraid," or "I don''t want to fail," or "I don''t want to have to make a decision and focus on one project." But when time is truly the issue, we have two choices: 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 16, 2012

In its heyday in 2006 and 2007, Myspace was an incredibly vibrant community of artists, musicians, and impassioned activists and do-gooders. Nonprofits like Invisible Children and To Write Love on Her Arms were born from Myspace. Class and race issues play out in social media just as they do in real life.

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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. 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. Learn More About C.J.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Thanks to the pandemic, online giving grew 21 percent in 2020 alone, and that growth isn’t slowing down any time soon. Text fundraising is a very popular option for nonprofits because you can reach your donors directly and make it convenient for them to give from anywhere at any time. Recurring giving drive. Virtual event fundraising.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

If so, be sure to stock lots of inexpensive and fun items for children. It’s important to ‘visit’ your own museum frequently and see what stands out to you each time to make sure you’re covering all of the bases for any of your visitors” she adds. . . Do lots of families visit your museum? Know your competition.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

You may receive items like artisan olive oil from a local shop, fresh bread from a bakery, and handmade candles from a nearby artist. Connect with the head chef at a renowned local restaurant to ask if they’d be willing to donate their time to support your cause. Tea time basket. Personal chef prize.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Either way, it’s time to brush up on your peer-to-peer fundraising chops and check out some online fundraising ideas that you can use to attract donors to your nonprofit. This is a great way to add urgency to the day, and remind people that it’s the perfect time to give. Recurring Giving Blitz.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Spring is a time that sees more people with a tidy sum of cash thanks to their tax returns, itching to go outside, and looking for things to do around key holidays like Easter, Passover, Nowruz, and Mother’s Day. Buy an hour with Daylight Savings Time… (second Sunday in March). Click To Tweet. Patrick’s Day Green (March 17).

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Qgiv

JULY 28, 2022

If your mission is related in some way to an existing awareness month, you should fundraise during that time. Read on to learn about some of the different awareness months and how you can fundraise during these times. Artistic nonprofits should raise funds for National Poetry Month, especially literary nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

There will be times this year when a thank you email or tweet just isn’t enough to communicate your appreciation. One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc.

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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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Connection Cafe

JUNE 23, 2016

Timely, but why is nonprofit storytelling such a hot topic these days ? 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

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2014

The content is meaty, multi-lingual, and timely. Some serious parallels to curating exhibitions and performances, especially with living artists. As Brian puts it: "What happens when an artist’s inclinations towards her/his work conflict with her/his ability to sell and keep making it?" The topic is online professional identity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Some participants got frustrated along the way, but part of the learning was to make time and space for reflection to get to deeper insights and improve practice. The Joe Goode Dance Company spoke about the challenges of getting an artistic director to Tweet. But not all the artists are comfortable on Twitter.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Do not only ask once and in one way; people might not be able to donate money but they might be to give their time. People want to have a good time; they want to feel like they get something in return. Or consider giving out a specific reward or celebration for people who contribute to a certain level of time or money to the cause.

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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. Engagement with local artists. What if you WANT them to touch certain things?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Some of us have children. We all have boundaries on our times and our abilities. The artist was masterful not only in her technical skill but also in her way with people. Like all people, my insides broil and burble with the stresses of life. We all have things, as my boss said recently. We all have parents and friends.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2015

C3 educates children in schools, exhibits at community art crawls, and partners with other organizations to host community art projects, all using recycled materials to create works of art. As Betsy says, "One of the things we say about art is that it's a universal language.

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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. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do. What is your favorite Traveling Postcards success story?

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

You need to be consistent every time you communicate with your donor. You might be bored with your message because you see it and write it all the time. Donor receives timely thank you’s. It’s time for some phone calls to donors to hear their stories. Hungry children in Brazil? Enslaved children in the far east?

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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. There are still many museums in large tourist centers with a hefty one-time audience. It's less about the event than the timing.

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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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

There were times when coordinating a fire art festival while researching social capital theory made me want to burn my computer. The program is an experimental playground that bridges artists, students, chefs, comedians, hairdressers, bartenders, dancers, wrestlers and even tattoo artists to produce a community-led event.

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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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Kids today are exposed to more than 50 hours of screen time every week. 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. Want even more?

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2010

Leave it to Gavin Clabaugh , one of the original NTEN rockstars and Vice President of the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation , to provide an equally entertaining and really helpful post about IT , tackling the long-time issue of leaving computers on over night. Finally, answers! And a green solution! Thank you, Gavin.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2014

And as an ambassador for Shriner’s Hospital for Children, RJ is dedicated to helping #CutTheBull. This Rodeowave recording artist and CMA/ACM Award Winner has 26 Top 40 Hits, 15 Top 10 Hits, 10 Number 1s, and is a 2-time ASCAP Songwiter of the year. per tweet using #BBCon. $1 Phil Vassar Concert.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

Generation Z, the heirs to the digital empire built by Generation X and expanded by Millennials, is made up of people who don’t just spend time online—they live there. Well-informed, constantly connected, and more tech-confident than your aunt Jan, they’re taking on the world’s problems, one online fundraiser at a time.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

What made the game so unique is the social element – the game designers spent a lot of time writing about the participants and their visions for the future on postcards and distributing them throughout the night, giving them to random participants so they were prompted to seek out others. My focus is on how children learn science.

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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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Think of the last time you overcame a huge obstacle. I've been interested in applying game design concepts to museums for a long time (there are over sixty posts on this blog on the topic). This is functionally another form of the scavenger hunt, where the goal is checkins over time instead of checkins at discrete locations.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2015

T hinkery21 happens every six weeks, and has a different theme every time. It was a fabulous date night (check out said caricature), and the next day I was telling all of my friends – with and without children – that they had to visit Thinkery. Genius, Thinkery, genius! Develop strong relationships with community partners.

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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. Here’s what’s pissing me off: The reason I have to fight every time to do these stories [like Darfur] is because the truth is that it’s hard to get the majority of Americans…to care. ” (not in video). On poster children & social investment. “I

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