Achieve

JANUARY 18, 2023

Virtual nonprofit events have fewer overhead costs and can save your organization a lot of money in the long run, boosting your overall ROI. With a bigger audience, you can effectively raise more money, raise awareness for your cause, and create a united push toward reaching your goals. Virtual nonprofit events can expand your reach.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 11, 2014

A new building, a new program, a new artistic endeavor – all exciting opportunities to raise more donor dollars! If there is no money for operations, we cannot fulfill our missions. Fundraising Arts & Culture fundraising ideas fundraising tips nonprofit culture Unrestricted Gifts'

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Online virtual fundraising is one of the most popular ways for nonprofits to raise money. Pensacola Habitat For Humanity’s Women Build initiative encouraged folks to set up their own personal fundraising websites to raise money for the cause. Have your lead artist jump on and run the class on Zoom. Zoom to the rescue!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Predictably, some filmmakers reject the concept altogether because they draw a sharp line between “artist” and “advocate;” or as one said, “I tell stories; what people take away is up to them” But many talented filmmakers, like Maya, also define themselves as change agents. Maya’s film may have indeed had impact.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

She is a lifelong artist, and was a therapist working in psychiatric hospitals before she made the leap into advertising (long story). Lisa Sonora Beam, The Creative Entrepreneur: How I Have Fun, Do Good Buy art from artists. One of the most fun ways to do good is to buy art and hand crafts directly from artists and artisans.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This week, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released a new paper by Holly Sidford called Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change. We may say that we want to support programming and cultural opportunities for low-income and non-white people, but that's not where the money is going. The title may sound innocuous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2011

Their book provides recipes for nonprofit organizations to capitalize on internal innovation and predict future trends to remake and reshape their culture, structure, and staff. So, a big congrats to David and Randal! It reminded me of Miriam Engelberg’s nonprofit comic books from several years ago and published by Compasspoint.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

Audiences of all backgrounds found ways to connect with museums as it presented exhibitions with the help of foster youth, migrant farmers, roller-derby girls, mushroom hunters, surfers and incarcerated artists, among others. I'm also always interested in how the national media portrays changes in the cultural sector.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

But the problem is that the practice of minimalism strips the world of culture and promotes a world of sameness where there is no room for differences. By focusing on minimalism, we’re creating a world devoid of diverse ideas, cultures, and expressions. Minimalism is the opposite of diversity. . But At What Cost? Design as Protest.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

Schimmel's departure was seen as the final confirmation of Deitch and Broad's populist, celebrity-driven approach to exhibitions, and that concerned many critics , artists , and museum directors in the art world. Why do these critics care so much about the influence of money and so little about the influence of audiences?

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 3, 2014

Sometimes people dread fundraising because they view it as simply asking people to give you their money. You can, and should, have fun to help your nonprofit raise money. We have seen these done with great success and you can easily adapt them to fit into your nonprofit’s culture and mission. Stop the Bop.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

While much of the branding and design inspiration we run across is either from consumer brands or individual artists, it all provides us with the opportunity to discover new principles, practices, and approaches that we can incorporate into our nuanced nonprofit world. However, creating accessible work does not have to be hard, or expensive.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

Although fundraising for arts organizations has unique challenges—like justifying the need to ask for support from donors for your arts and culture versus donating to the efforts of front-line workers—art in all forms is something that every community needs. This may be some of your lead performers, popular visual artists, or directors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2007

My first job in nonprofit and technology was as community manager for an online network of artists called ArtsWire in 1993 before the Web. The online interaction design was patterned after the Well - it was described as a WELL for artists. s about the money. For we who resist, the money is the least of it.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

When it comes to user participation in cultural institutions and the arts, it's popular to launch projects that pit visitors against experts. I've been thinking about this as I prep some interactive prototypes for the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum, a Seattle-based museum of pop culture. There was Click!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

This makes it difficult for staff to strike a meaningful, sustainable balance between work and self-care because it does not permeate a organization’s culture or fundamentally change staff behavior. This concept was acted out by artists that brought the game to life in a very funny way and it prompted some fun (non-scarcity mindset) thinking.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Product Marketing Manager for Arts and Cultural Solutions. They invested massive amounts of time and money into the rebrand, hiring the very best designers and brand managers to help them redesign their image. When you run reports on your visitors, there’s most likely a group of people that would have saved money by becoming a member.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

It happened because we: partnered with local artists and community organizations whose passion and generosity made it possible for us to create incredible events. We created programming specifically targeted to families with young kids and adults looking for casual, intriguing, affordable cultural experiences on Friday nights and Saturdays.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

By inviting people to actively participate with us in co-creating programming, we empower them as creative agents, cultural producers, and people for whom the museum is a relevant, compelling partner. More money. But we weren''t going to wait to solve people''s comfort problem until we had the money or the design. More audience.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. Every organization has pockets of restricted and unrestricted money. My CFO has been very proactive and a wonderful partner in figuring out how to create an overall department budget that frees up small pockets of money for new projects.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In a lot of ways, our successful turnaround at the MAH has been driven by both embracing incremental change and opening up clear opportunities for community organizations and individuals to "plug" their cultural brilliance into our space. When I started at the MAH last May, we had absolutely no money. We scrounged for free couches.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

If you make or exceed your goal in the timeframe you set, you get the money. Kickstarter makes money by taking a percentage on projects that succeed. But then I started finding more humble projects related to broader issues, and I began to see Kickstarter as a potentially fascinating space for museums and cultural institutions.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

By November of 2010, I had a business plan for the cafe and intended to start raising money in 2011. Last year, MAH trustees and staff members wrote a new strategic plan that positions the museum as a "thriving, central gathering place" that serves as the "intersection of art, history, ideas and culture" for the diverse folks in our county.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

She doesn't have a specific idea for a partner event or exhibit, but she feels like we have a lot to offer each other in terms of publicity and a shared focus on enhancing cultural experiences in the community. And she wants to do it now--in the next two weeks. I want to say yes. In fact, I do say yes. Chaos can be stressful.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2016

They want different perks from their employers; they donate and volunteer differently from their predecessors; they spend money and get involved and use technology differently than has ever been done before. But also like generations past, Millennials do things differently. The content. For-profits for good. Exploration.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

4 Steps for Selling Your Art: Interview with Alyson B.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Looking closer, I saw that each seat had its own handwritten label, telling the story of the Philadelphia cultural institution from which it originated. They were there for artist talks. There's no money to fix them. The chairs were cast-off art, reclaimed as art, available for people to take off the hooks and use.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Here are three of those assumptions and their substantiation in the Detroit Free Press: The arts are a private matter: Arts are about individual tastes, experiences and enrichment, and individual expression by artists. Your cultural outlet is art galleries and symphonies. Vote with your money instead." Rebuttal: none.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2010

The first participant was handed money (the price of a ticket), but the later two had money literally stuffed into their clothes by the dancers. Dean noted that in the US performances, the participants always tried to give the money back to the dancers, but in Korea that never happened.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2015

In 2011, in the name of raising money for the Special Olympics, I participated in the Polar Plunge. Here are 3 arts and cultural organizations that have given crowd fundraising a go for compelling causes: National Air & Space Museum. A young artist program you hope to get off the ground?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"While none of these approaches cost a lot of money, they certainly require staff time to support. Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." Go read it.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

As we head into the final months of 2020, some parts of the country are opening up more than others, consumers are itching to get out of their homes, and arts and culture organizations are at a pivotal moment in planning for their comeback. This was already playing out across mainstream genres (i.e. It’s so forward-facing and exciting.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Talking about money, openly. I led a session with Eric Siegel and Ellen Rosenthal on museum business models and some of the issues we grapple with in managing money. We dance out our bad times. This session made me see our silliness as a real asset as we keep pushing boundaries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

They’re jocks, geeks, artists, musicians and cheerleaders…and we need their help. I hate these poster child looks of these kids that look so hungry…like ‘please give us money.’ …I Doing good isn’t our job, it’s everyone’s. And as long as changing the world is relegated to a sector, it will never happen. Generic license ).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2015

One of the most powerful books I read while doing research was We are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence ( read it free here , great appreciation to Bob Janes for sharing it with us). By protecting the bundles, museums were protecting important cultural heritage for generations to come.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 20, 2005

Not only does the Market give folk art collector folks an opportunity to see and buy work from all over the world, the coolest thing is what it means for the artists. Each attending cooperative might represent, for example, 600 artists back home in Bangladesh.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Peer-to-Peer Events Arts & Culture Events Community Events Educational Events Events for Grown-Ups Events for Kids & Families Nonprofit Peer-to-Peer Events Peer-to-peer events raise funds and generate buzz by having your supporters and participants get their networks involved in your event. Foot Race These are a classic of the genre.

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