Kindful

AUGUST 12, 2021

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Start small and work your way out. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art’s grantmaking activity is focused on serving the needs of artists by funding the institutions that support them.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2014

You open a children''s book. Either I''m really sleep-deprived, or Press Here is the most brilliant interactive children''s book ever. Either I''m really sleep-deprived, or Press Here is the most brilliant interactive children''s book ever. You see a yellow dot. The text says "Press the yellow dot and turn the page."

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Candid

OCTOBER 1, 2021

September 28, 2021 The LEGO Foundation has announced a $150 million commitment in support of children and families across the world affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. MacArthur Foundation announces 2021 fellows. September 29, 2021 The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced its 2021 class of MacArthur Fellows.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If the answer is “not too upset” and you don’t want to cease to exist, you’ve got some work to do! . Here’s how you can start this critical work. . Are you approaching your work in an active or a passive manner? For example: If you work in the education sector , you could offer learning opportunities to non-enrolled students.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Can this kind of intimacy and informality work in a sprawling metropolis? Nestled in a forest of high-rise apartment buildings, this small museum connects children and families with contemporary art. But while Hello Museum originally opened as a "children's contemporary art museum," that's not the tagline they use today.

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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. House of Ruth — Baltimore.

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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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Kindful

MAY 1, 2021

This Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re proud to highlight the innovative and impactful work of these Kindful customers. On this page, you’ll find their missions and ways to support their important work, as well as some resources for nonprofit professionals. Work From Home Self Care: 11 Tips For Fundraisers – Bloomerang .

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

If so, be sure to stock lots of inexpensive and fun items for children. Get to know peers working in shops at other museums and find out what they are offering and scope out their top retail strategies. Work with a local artist to create artworks inspired by your collection. Do lots of families visit your museum?

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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. 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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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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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. Give your artistic students the opportunity to show off their skills by hosting a virtual art show. Your school’s band, orchestra, and choir work hard to prepare music pieces every year.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

Pay was lousy, and there was constant pressure from publishers to produce more work in less time. 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. 22 EMAIL LEDES THAT ALWAYS WORK!!

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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. NedSpace is a 7,500 square ft co-working space for startups, innovative tech companies, artists, nonprofits and social entrepreneurs located in the heart of downtown Portland, Oregon.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The majority of foundation funding for the arts goes to large, established organizations that present work that is based in the European canon for a primarily white, upper-income audience. There's the barrier of the concern that this work is "social work" and not art--and therefore doesn't belong in a museum or a theater.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Raffle basket FAQs How does a raffle work? You may receive items like artisan olive oil from a local shop, fresh bread from a bakery, and handmade candles from a nearby artist. A day out at the zoo or aquarium is a useful gift for families with young children. Supporters purchase raffle tickets, typically for a low fee.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Or, you do fundraise online, but with the advent of COVID you know you have to kickstart your online work. Try using Gamefly to rent games for the tournament for participants — it works just like the old Netflix (where they send you the game via mail and you mail it back). Have your lead artist jump on and run the class on Zoom.

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Qgiv

JULY 28, 2022

Awareness months are a great opportunity to shed some light on your nonprofit organization and the work it does. Medical nonprofits and nonprofits that work to prevent human trafficking should prepare fundraisers for the month of January. Artistic nonprofits should raise funds for National Poetry Month, especially literary nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2014

Some serious parallels to curating exhibitions and performances, especially with living artists. Speaking of contemporary artists, one of my favorite recent blog posts was this thoughtful essay by artist Brian Fernandes-Halloran about navigating the compromises between artistic ambition and the marketplace.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Most people who work in the nonprofit sector do so out of a commitment to a cause or passion bigger than themselves or their desire for material things. Your work is valuable and you should be compensated for it. Thus, for 2013, please: 1) Ask for a raise. Despite popular memes that social media is “Free!” Good luck.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

It’s also a time for gifts and new clothes, making this a great chance to raise funds or donations of new clothing, especially for children. April 7 is National Handmade Day, but even if that date doesn’t work for your calendar, wine and paint go together like PB and J. 37 Spring Fundraising Ideas for Small Nonprofits Click To Tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

In his question to create the storage battery, he conducted 10,000 experiments before arriving at a method that worked. It isn’t whether your experiment is an immediate success, it is more about what you learn about what works and what doesn’t. But not all the artists are comfortable on Twitter.

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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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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

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Some of us have children. The last few weeks have been particularly trying for me at work, in that a key person left, and in the interim, I found myself drowning in emails. The aches of life and work seem to make the fissures in your facade expand, like wood cracking from moisture. We all have things, as my boss said recently.

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See3

JUNE 3, 2009

Wendy’s work was just written about in the Bangkok Post. 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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Now, years later, as I work with nonprofits who are primarily interested in Facebook and Twitter, there is part of me that mourns the loss of MySpace being used by the nonprofits. To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. So, my Ode to MySpace: 1.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Like we need more spaciousness in our lives for all kinds of things, including working on our big vision. In the meantime, we have to work with what we have, even if it''s only an hour a week. Seuss famously bet that he could write a children''s book [ Green Eggs and Ham ] using only 50 unique words.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Over the last year, the work of Traveling Postcards keeps crossing my path, so I asked its founder, Caroline Lovell, to share with us: How Traveling Postcards works The path that brought her to this work Her favorite Traveling Postcards success story How we can get involved with Traveling Postcards I've posted her answers below.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2015

I'm thrilled to say that one of our winning 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest submissions is TechSoup member Cary Creative Center , or "C3," an organization working to save materials from the landfill by turning them into beautiful art. Creative Reuse: A Universal Language.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Here are a few fundraising ideas that I have seen work in the past. Consider reaching out to the artist community and within your organization (children in particular) seeking artwork to sell. Back to the actual fundraising event, don't wrack your brain for ideas, but put your own twist on your fundraising.

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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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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Look at the wonderful work that we’ve accomplished together. Hungry children in Brazil? Enslaved children in the far east? Artists in your community? Don’t leave it to a boring newsletter to do this work for you. You need to explicitly say to your donor – look what you, Mr. Donor, helped create in our community.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. We encouraged teams to think like artists, not researchers. This year, the theme was social impact assessment, or measuring the immeasurable.

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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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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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