Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2008

I used to teach " Digital Literacy Workshops " in 1997 to introduce Web 1.0 skills to artists and educators. What might be differnt if you were teaching this class today? Digital or Internet literacy skills are nothing new - my first introduction was over ten years when Doug Johnson developed the Mankato Scale.

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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. Traveling Postcards workshops are easy and fun for everyone.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

CON: can make people feel like second-class board members instead of equal leaders in the organization. As one African-American artist on a prominent museum board told me, "I felt even more tokenized than if I had been part of some kind of Artists'' Council or African-American Council." Meet them here.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Exercise Class You can hold a regular exercise class with a volunteer instructor—like a boot camp-style fitness program—for long-term fundraising. DIY Craft Workshops Offer virtual craft workshops with participants paying a fee to attend and learn a new skill. You can sell entries with t-shirts to cut back on waste.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Community science workshops. Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. Skill-sharing free schools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

3) Cooking classes. Cooking classes have a broad appeal because they attract not just gourmet food, but also individuals who want to learn new skills. As an added benefit these types of classes are often easy to broadcast live. As an added benefit these types of classes are often easy to broadcast live. 6) Craft nights.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Art Exhibition You can never go wrong with highlighting local artists. Classes Nonprofit organizations often offer classes that cover a wide array of topics, from literacy and language skills to financial literacy and job training. Neon CRM has a bunch of great features to let nonprofits host classes and sell tickets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2008

In April, I taught a social media workshop for artists and arts nonprofits and did some research. Read the artist statement and then read the discussion. Quite an interesting thread on gentrification, race, and class. on how different arts organizations using social media effectively. Full Moon Over the East River.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2005

On the Vlogging list, there is an interesting thread on Citizen Journalism as part of a class at Temple University Film and Media Arts. The class is taught by Jen. " In the thread, one person pointed to Verdi's Video Workshop where people are giving reflective criticism on the vlog genre.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Before the appointment, I decided to go to my favorite belly dance fitness class, ShimmyPop! I wanted to go to one last dance class before the doctor told me I couldn't anymore; a last meal sort of thing. I asked Heather for the class playlist, so I could share it with you. at Hipline. It’s about making ideas happen.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 26, 2015

Even though the process might seem intense, Gerken said it’s proven to be effective as the volunteer is engaged in their activity, whether it is teaching woodworking classes or helping with administrative work. A HALO staff member will then conduct a phone interview and bring in the volunteer for a face-to-face interview with employees.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Here are some of the comments on the "why" behind their involvement: [Khan Academy has] a hugely generous vision and commitment to rethinking education—our mission is “a world-class education, for anyone, anywhere”—not to mention brilliant programmers and staff. But there are other content models we can explore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

(Disclaimer: I'm on the honorary committee because 13 years ago I worked on an online artist network with the New York Foundation for the Arts and CAMT was the partner.) Many of us started off as artists and then ended up managing arts organizations. s also addressed in a marketing class. Was that your progression?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2009

At the time, I was a program director for an arts education program and a facilitator of career counseling workshops for artists. Likewise, I feel like there are more books, websites, movies, classes, etc. One of my moments of obligation came during the Green Festival in San Francisco in the fall of 2002.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 26, 2005

Many of the young people who participate in the dance classes in Mad Hot Ballroom , and in Streetside Stories' workshops, are young people of color from low-income families who may not have an opportunity to go to any arts programing outside of school, and definitely not during school, where most arts programming has been cut.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

This could be a day-long series of talks and workshops all hosted online where people can dial into the different events. Virtual Cooking Class. CauseVox did a virtual cooking class ourselves to try it out, and it got great engagement! If this is around the holidays, try making your class a themed one!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection. She also plans to better employ Abbott Square, just outside the Cooper Street entrance to the MAH.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

Like many people who've worked in science centers and interactive experience museums, I've always been perplexed by the fact that hands-on workshop audiences top out around age 14. So why don't adult workshops succeed? They are more than just workshop spaces--they are member institutions, like museums.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

You have to take action either by taking a class, doing an informational interview, volunteering, interning, going to an event, or taking a job in the field that interests you. For example, at one point, I thought I wanted to be a massage therapist, but then I took a massage class, and realized I had to massage naked people I didn't know.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. This Pop Up Library just returned from a folk music festival.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Depending on your budget, you may be able to get a popular artist, but you can also reach out to local musicians. Art show – Are there any local artists in your area? And, with their permission, you can even sell some of the pieces with a portion going back to the artist and the rest going to your organization.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

and featured a series of plenary sessions, workshops, master classes, and networking opportunities. The final workshop I attended was led by Pauline Rouer of the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, and Thibault de Saint Simon of insurance company Aviva France and focused on building partnerships with businesses.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

and featured a series of plenary sessions, workshops, master classes, and networking opportunities. The final workshop I attended was led by Pauline Rouer of the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, and Thibault de Saint Simon of insurance company Aviva France and focused on building partnerships with businesses. Like this article?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

BB: Your whole book, Loyal to the Sk y, is a memoir, and it's your entire path to becoming an activist and an artist. And then spending more time here, and getting a bit more acquainted with the lies of this society regarding race and class and all kinds of issues. I think that was where my eyes began opening to what injustice is.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Maybe I am teaching computer classes, or English as a second language classes, maybe I’m teaching those and I have 10 students. So earlier I mentioned maybe a parent who took English as a second language classes or maybe they got their GED or they took those computer literacy programs. So you raised $20,000.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 31, 2017

They host workshops on mural painting, a hip hop academy, and an ambassador program where they send artists aboard to facilitate cultural exchange. They have programs ranging from adult classes to youth summer camps to a dance company and memoir writing. Words, Beats & Life Inc. Joe's Movement Emporium.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

Then, I started going around the country teaching workshops around spiritual activism: why it's important to take your yoga off the mat and into the world, and the different ways that we can get involved. But every time I would leave a workshop, I would leave with this haunting feeling of, "Now what?" It was so fun.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I often tell people the story of how I used to think that I wanted to be a massage therapist, until I took a class and I realized you had to massage naked people you didn't know. Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? I just want to dispel the myth that we are not activists and that we are not artists.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now. We do workshops on linking the issues, and connecting the war at home with the wars abroad, etc., One other challenge I wanted to share, let's see, what was it.

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