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49 Online Fundraising Ideas to Help You Raise More

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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. Virtual college + career prep workshop. Virtual craft fair. Virtual tours for museums.

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Approach Social Media Like Thomas Edison

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. 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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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

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. Traveling Postcards workshops are easy and fun for everyone.

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37 Spring Fundraising Ideas for Small Nonprofits

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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. Reach out to talented local artists, galleries, and museums to see if they can donate pieces, workshops, or behind-the-scenes tours to support your cause. Art Show and Silent Auction.

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7 Ways to Create Highly Committed Donors

BoardAssist

Hungry children in Brazil? Enslaved children in the far east? Artists in your community? Her Fired-Up Fundraising Board Workshops have inspired thousands of board members to get actively involved in fundraising. Is it the little boy down the street? Elderly shut-ins in Boston? Families in need all over the world?

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Museum programs can be designed to further bond similar groups together such as families and friends in family workshops such as the Dallas Museum of Art’s First Tuesdays. Sometimes that results in an artist-led cascading collaborative sculpture of 475 visitor-made scrap metal fish.

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Challenges, Rules, and Epic Wins: Using Game Design to Build Visitor Loyalty

Museum 2.0

Last week, as part of my museum's year-long Loyalty Lab project , we hosted a workshop for Bay Area museum professionals with special guests Ian Kizu-Blair and Sam Lavigne of the game design firm Situate. Based on the Loyalty Lab workshop, we're now talking about experimenting with a "bring a friend" challenge.

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