Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

National Native American Heritage Month was created with the intention to provide a platform for American Indians to share and honor their culture, traditions, music, art, dance, beliefs, and ways of life. Make sure to take time this November to learn more about American Indian history and why this awareness month is so important.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The Davey Award winners have been announced, and we’re proud to say that Forum One and our amazing clients have officially won 10 awards in website and app design for nonprofits, health, government, cultural institutions, and more. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The Field Museum Store offers gifts for those interested in science and cultural, natural, and human history. The National Park Foundation offer their supporters a great way to show their love for the national parks – while supporting them at the same time. Perfect gifts for the nonprofit techie! 10) Getty Store :: shop.getty.edu.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A music festival, food festival, or cultural festival, to name a few, can bring people together in some of the best ways. . However, with the rise of COVID-19, festivals all over the world were put on hold, and the events industry, artists, and festival vendors were forced to find other ways of sharing their passions with the world. .

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Thanks to the pandemic, online giving grew 21 percent in 2020 alone, and that growth isn’t slowing down any time soon. Text fundraising is a very popular option for nonprofits because you can reach your donors directly and make it convenient for them to give from anywhere at any time. Recurring giving drive. Virtual event fundraising.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

"If we start losing cultural diversity, we begin to lose our whole sense of community because community is defined by culture. My dad is the co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship. They also enrich the community's culture, and they use cultural capital. That's cultural entrepreneurship."

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you’re not “ all signs point to go ,” it’s time to take a look at what your team is doing and how you’re faring based on the metrics that matter most to your nonprofit. In the Broadway musical “Hamilton,” Alexander Hamilton sings about who he and America are meant to be. Think about your movement, not the current moment in time. .

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

This can provide a deeper connection between attendees and strengthen any business networking that is taking place at the same time. . Real-time Illustrations. Hire a talented artist to create real-time illustrations in a session. Virtual Musicals. Musicals can be fun, and many people enjoy them.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A music festival, food festival, or cultural festival, to name a few, can bring people together in some of the best ways. . However, with the rise of COVID-19, festivals all over the world were put on hold, and the events industry, artists, and festival vendors were forced to find other ways of sharing their passions with the world. .

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

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. Skill-sharing free schools.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. 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).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Earlier this fall, I read this headline: "Stanford study: Participation in a cultural activity may reduce prejudice." I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. I wanted to know more.

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Everyaction

JULY 12, 2018

Anyone briefly strolling through this park will likely hear the sound of a brass band and see local artists scattered along the sidewalk. Located in the heart of the French Quarter, this acclaimed music venue was founded in 1961 to protect, preserve, and perpetuate traditional New Orleans Jazz. The Spotted Cat Music Club.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2014

The content is meaty, multi-lingual, and timely. Elsewhere in podcast-land, Radiolab did a fascinating piece about cultural appropriation and gate-keeping in hip hop music. Some serious parallels to curating exhibitions and performances, especially with living artists. The topic is online professional identity.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

At the time, we thought it was financial trouble, but it turned out it was much deeper than that,” Simon says. 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.

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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

JUNE 30, 2009

These artists are all great examples of how media can be used for social change - as a vehicle for storytelling. KRS1 would go on to become an expert at using music as a vehicle for social change (a whole other blog post), but early on it was all about telling his own story. I think that's something all nonprofits can learn from.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

When writing The Art of Relevance , I knew I wanted to share a bit of his story and the ways artists negotiate the relevance of their own work. While an institution can pivot, presenting different content for different times, the content itself does not change. But we make those decisions and changes all the time.

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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. Here’s what’s pissing me off: The reason I have to fight every time to do these stories [like Darfur] is because the truth is that it’s hard to get the majority of Americans…to care. ” (not in video). It’s the music that the most people can listen to.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 3, 2014

We have seen these done with great success and you can easily adapt them to fit into your nonprofit’s culture and mission. You could set your goals on an individual business level or as a collective group with several business participating at the same time. Feel free to choose a different artist that might help you raise funds.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Also, those nonprofits that excel today on Facebook and Twitter, like The Humane Society of the United States, National Wildlife Federation and PETA, they all started their social media campaigns on MySpace at a time when only those with a.edu e-mail address could join Facebook. MySpace is not just a community of poor people!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

When I was in college, I spent almost all of my free time in the slam poetry scene. Some had no clear time limits or criteria for participation, and the poetry swung between brilliance and poke-your-eye-out horror. Wackos and experts all get the same amount of time. The Cantab had a formula. The process is discoverable.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

There were times when coordinating a fire art festival while researching social capital theory made me want to burn my computer. The program is an experimental playground that bridges artists, students, chefs, comedians, hairdressers, bartenders, dancers, wrestlers and even tattoo artists to produce a community-led event.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Last Friday night, my museum hosted a fabulous (in my biased opinion) event called Race Through Time. We created Race Through Time in partnership with a local networking group called Santa Cruz Next , whose primary aim is to support and celebrate ways that young professionals can and are changing our community for the better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

And the good news is that if you've never created web videos before and don't have the big bucks to hire a professional, there is enough time to learn. 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 ).

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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. It is unfinished, unassuming, and whimsical, and at the same time, deadly serious. You don't have time to convene the community.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

When I first started exploring the site, I assumed it was mostly a place for charismatic hipsters and a few star artists with enough social media savvy and clever video production capabilities to produce enticing pitches. Why should cultural and arts organizations care about Kickstarter? The museum's page is much simpler.

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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.

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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. Growing a Strong Volunteer Culture Every year, thousands of new librarians and archivists graduate from MLS programs.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Spend more time in the community to whom you wish to be relevant. Emily started by honing in on local teens' assets: creativity, activist energy, desire to make a difference, desire to be heard, free time in the afternoon. One community of interest are Oaxacan culture-bearers in the nearby Live Oak neighborhood. Hire new staff.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 25, 2008

I expected it to be both physically and culturally uncomfortable, something like going to a dentist in a Harley garage. And yet here they were streaming into a place where they would spend hundreds of dollars on art, pore intently over books of images and talk earnestly with the artists about their vision. The music was loud and angry.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. A game like Climbing Sacred Mountain has a very timely niche. CLIMBING SACRED MOUNTAIN. JURY FEEDBACK. THE BOTTOM LINE.

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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. we’ve lost momentum in the marketplace and/or people may be skittish about crowds for some time).

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 8, 2023

It’s a time for celebration, for awareness, for community, and for action. Jemisin Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang Music Check out the Neon Pride playlist on Spotify, featuring over 8 hours of songs from artists like Janelle Monae, Frank Ocean, Kylie Minogue and many more!

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Forum One

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Not only did we make the list one time – we made it eight times with two gold wins for non-profit and cultural institution websites and six silver wins for apps and websites in non-profits, health, families and kids, the environment and sustainability, science, and education. Check out all of our w3 Award winners below!

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

This year, Forum One took home one platinum, four gold, and six silver awards in the categories of cultural, non-profit, science, health, and school/university websites, as well as digital branded content, arts and culture virtual experiences, and family and kids apps and software.

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