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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Bloomerang

Similar to the list I shared for nonprofits focusing on education , arts and culture tends to be a very popular issue area for American foundations. The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. Funding Priority: Arts & Culture. Ford Foundation.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Kindful

Similar to the list I shared for nonprofits focusing on education , arts and culture tends to be a very popular issue area for American foundations. The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. Funding Priority: Arts & Culture. Ford Foundation.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. In the past, I've highlighted a few--like 826 Valencia and the Denver Community Museum --that I think have already influenced the way many traditional cultural organization do business. Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA).

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Add a Little Do-Goodness to Your Valentine's Day

Have Fun - Do Good

Dinner Dates If possible, support a restaurant that serves local and/or organic food, or better yet, make a date to cook together. Gifts One of the best gifts you can give is the gift of time together , but there are also lots of places to purchase lovely gifts made by artists and artisans. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Crowd Fundraising for the Arts: No Running, Walking, or Freezing Plunges Required

Connection Cafe

Our friends and family stepped up and supported this local branch of the Special Olympics, thousands of miles away from their home towns, securing donation dollars for the nonprofit that they would have never seen otherwise. A young artist program you hope to get off the ground? That’s the beauty of crowd fundraising. More detail here.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

I think at the national level we're always going to have The New York Times , CNN, and The Washington Post to do national investigations, but what we really are threatened to lose in the next year to five years is local investigations and local reporting. Obviously, local civic journalism is incredibly important to me.

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1stfans: An Audience-Specific Membership Program at the Brooklyn Museum

Museum 2.0

This week, an interview with Brooklyn Museum 1stfans managers Will Cary (membership) and Shelley Bernstein (technology) and artist An Xiao. There are both virtual-only and local 1stfan members. Will: Only 32 of the 272 so far are from outside the tri-state area, so the majority are locals. This was made for them.

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