NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2023

To make your posters extra eye-catching, consider having a poster design contest. It’ll give local artists a chance to show off their skills. Then, have your current volunteers hang up the fliers in places they frequent or think might be popular with your future volunteers. And you’ll get a striking advertisement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

Guests: Chris Burke (media artist, creator of This Spartan Life ) Eddo Stern (media artist, maker of Landlord Vigilante ) Alex Chan (creator of The French Democracy ). Chris Burke is winner of Save the Net viral video contest - check out the video here. Need more inspiration to create video or machinima for social change?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. MSI did three things that most organizations don't or can't do when they set up a video contest: They got a TON of local, national, and international press. That will come later. Museum staffers.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Or host a rib, pie, or hot dog eating contest and have your own tip jars for people to support their favorite competitors in the form of donations. Or do what Planned Parenthood did and partner with local tattoo artists who may have a connection to your cause to donate a portion of their bookings to your organization.

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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. As Shelly Bernstein, staff member at the museum, writes on the project blog, Click is not a contest, it's a study of crowds. Read the artist statement and then read the discussion. networks. (If View the Evaluation Statistics.)It

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Invite a local artist or crafty supporter to host an evening on the terrace of a local cafe or office, and let your supporters get their hands dirty while making something fun to take home, all while supporting a great cause. Have a float race, water balloon toss, or watermelon-seed–spitting contest to raise additional funds for a cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The Tools Artists Need Geeks To Create Join us to discuss the digital tools being used and abused by theatre makers, dancers, musicians, crafters, wordsmiths, cinematographers, photographers, painters, and other multimedia artists. What artistic problems need a dose of geek teamwork? What’s new? What works?

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

To make the process extra fun and to make your posters extra eye-catching, consider having a poster design contest. It’ll give local artists a chance to show off their skills, and you’ll get a striking advertisement.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Considerations: have an impartial umpire or judge for the games so that its a fair contest for all. Reach out to a talented volunteer or local artist to lead the class, and purchases the necessary supplies. Have your lead artist jump on and run the class on Zoom. Jackbox is a great option for online games. Live-Streaming.

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NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2009

If you've got free time and some design chops, you may want to consider entering their Design for Change contest; if you have mutton chops, you may want to consider shaving. Here are the details: Prizes will be given to the artist behind the chosen design as well as the first and second runners up.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Why is a photography contest an example of "crowd sourcing" wheres a community drawing contest is an example of "audience-as-artist"? I counted at least five different schemes in the six-page section on "Participatory Arts in Practice," and none of these were explicitly referenced in the subsequent case studies.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Earlier this year, organizations submitted their best creative works to the Show Your Impact 2010 design contest, sponsored by Adobe and TechSoup. Ramos-Fermin offers these tips for organizations who want to use Creative Suite to design a project of their own: read more.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2013

Negotiation" implies a respectful relationship between institution (or artist) and user. Sometimes the negotiation is contested. Sometimes the negotiation can be exploited for artistic means. The theater is dark and the artist breaks the fourth wall and asks for conversation. Patrons clap between movements.

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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. About the Success Stories Contest. Creative Reuse: A Universal Language.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Round three of #CelebrateAdobeCC — our three-month contest highlighting how nonprofits use Adobe products to spotlight their work and mission — is a wrap. Enjoy the video, and thanks for all the creativity shared by the nonprofits that participated in our contest. The end has come. Gold Prize Winner.

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See3

JANUARY 25, 2007

It was designed by a New York artist named Cindy Workman. Here are the details : art… Artist Cindy Workman has a new show called “Les Demoiselles&# that features arresting, composite images of women fashioned from disparate sources including magazines, online images, even sewing pattern envelopes. We love our See3 logo.

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OCTOBER 13, 2023

You can charge a door fee, set up concessions with snacks and drinks, and even have individual contests with their own entry fees. Photo Contest Photo costs are incredibly diverse. Tap your network to see what kinds of artists and craftspeople are out there and are available to teach.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 12, 2010

Cropping logos, converting images for web use, brightening images, balancing levels, and using artistic filters are just a few of the many features we use here at TechSoup almost every day. By pairing Photoshop with other Adobe products like InDesign, nonprofits can create compelling collateral that help spread their organization's message.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Focus on gathering people together and including fun side events or contests. Consider reaching out to the artist community and within your organization (children in particular) seeking artwork to sell. Become the recycling center and then sell the collection to the actual recycling plant, cans add up quick.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

Opera San Jose gave a presentation on its #operaplot hashtag contest where participants has to tweet the plots of operas in 140 characters. The Joe Goode Dance Company spoke about the challenges of getting an artistic director to Tweet. One of the things they discovered is that their audience wants to hear from the artists.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Same for any prizes, contests, sweepstakes, drawings, or competitions (essay contests, spelling bees, etc. Offer surprise drawings and contests during the year. Sometimes a nonprofit has access to world-class chefs, celebrities, artists, or architects or well-known lawmakers. Plug donor skills into the work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

In addition to three video public service announcements we produced featuring Minnesota Vikings Defensive End Brian Robison, Minnesota Twins Pitcher Glen Perkins and Minnesota R&B artists Stokley Williams (of Mint Condition) & OSO, we also partnered with Youthprise to sponsor a video contest.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

They also held a student art contest to design a special Art in Action necklace that could be purchased on the day, with an even higher percentage of proceeds going to the org. Find the artist among you and have fun creating a work of art that all moms might enjoy. Card Service. Theme the evening to your cause (e.g.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 21, 2008

Have a Contest Everybody loves to win, and contests move quickly over the web. Here are a few ideas: • A video book trailer, or video book review contest. Flickr photo contest. The author of Social Software in Libraries hosted an Alternative Book Cover contest. The winner gets a Flip Video camera.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2015

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. We had many excellent submissions to the contest. Here are the top 10. Cary Creative Center — Third-Place Winner.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

I have a couple of friends, artists Richard Lange and Judith Selby Lange, who scour the beach regularly for plastic trash to include in their art projects. We won the costume contest. Their pieces are fantastic and beautiful, even as they depict the terrible problem of plastic pollution. Now that was fun! Want to get involved?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

I'm in the process of preparing material for the Screencasting Session at NTC (BTW, I'm presenting with Ian Miller from C3 who is sponsoring the NTC Video Contest last call). After thinking about this for a while, I boiled it down to two metaphors. A) The Hollywood Movie B) Home movies to document something important.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

Even ArtPrize , the "radically open" art festival that was judged last year by public vote alone, will incorporate a juried contest as well this year. While The Beatles top both lists when it comes to artist representation, none of the top twenty artists on the Rolling Stone list are women, whereas Billboard has seven.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). Beck talks about this in the context of learning to play music as a young artist. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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See3

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Each video features a young, critically-acclaimed spoken-word artist – Shira Erlichman, Alvin Lau, and Deja Taylor – as well as renowned musician, DJ Spooky. The result is www.MyFreeWillPower.com , centered around a series of three animated music videos, to be released over a 6-week period.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. Use competitions and contests to generate new ideas from new audiences.

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See3

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

It was a one-day event packed full of panels and breakout sessions with leaders from prominent women’s organizations such as Feminist Majority , NOW and NARAL as well as feminist bloggers, artists and activists. What I liked most about the conference was the diversity of people that attended.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

It takes only minutes to get going on the site, and there are several different options to get potential donors interested, including contests. If you’re unfamiliar with the site, it’s a place for start-ups, artists, and local organizations to promote specific projects in order to receive funding. For inspiration.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

You might try reaching out to businesses, artists, or other people in your neighborhood to see if they’d be willing to list things on your store (either as a donation or for a share of the profits) or produce branded items like mugs and hats based on popular products. 15) Brand design contests. 10) Hybrid concerts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Run a contest. You can email your question (please keep it to 50 words) about the do-good, or artistic work you are doing, or want to do, to britt@brittbravo.com. Participate in online forums and communities. List your blog in blog directories. Finally, write posts that people want to read!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Some creative work is crowdsourced in the form of creative or design contests while others are produced by interactive agencies that gather and vet online communities of designers, artists and producers to be part of a creative development process.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2006

Last Sunday each of us wrote a post to answer the question, “Who is your favorite artist (visual, dancer, performer, writer or musician) and why?” Institute for Social Ecology : "A ten-day program for artists, performers, activists, and media makers who wish to create and examine socially engaged art and media projects."

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