DipJar

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Arts and cultural organizations are the sources of some of our favorite DipJar stories. Today’s story comes from the small but mighty state of Rhode Island, where The Gamm Theatre has been providing great cultural programming for almost 40 years. Arts, culture, and performance are all personal passions for her.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Historical and cultural barriers Historical and cultural barriers can also hinder social mobility for individuals from underserved communities as they may face prejudice and discrimination based on their cultural background. Unfortunately, it’s the same in the nonprofit sector.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Coming into the association space as a developer eventually shifted into combining my technical skills with my people and business understanding and becoming an Applications Analyst and several other roles. I later moved to Community Brands in a similar yet much more exciting role. The culture! Fun fact about Dave.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Audubon Marketplace gifts are unique and play an important role in protecting our birds and butterflies. The Field Museum Store offers gifts for those interested in science and cultural, natural, and human history. The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop sells unique and beautiful objects from around the world in support of the arts.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

“Many of the games at Babycastles don’t fit the traditional definitions of the medium; they veer closer to artistic experiementation than they do to mass-market viability.&# – New York Times. Tracy : When we speak about cultureal spaces, we are really talking about caging and preserving culture.

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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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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

During one role, I mentioned to a manager that I was dyslexic, and the response, instead of asking how to best work with me to manage this different way of thinking, was to ask why I went into a role in writing and communications. Many creatives, artists, and musicians have it and have found a way to navigate and create beautiful work.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2023

Their approach is holistic, with a variety of programs focused on cultural arts, wellness, and social justice. It is a celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community in Madison and also exists to support artists within the community. Support PrideFest by becoming a sponsor or donating for a pride sign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

The same constructs which were discussed around combating issue fatigue can be used in creating a cultural movement around an issue. Media and narrative play significant roles in creating and building these platforms. that effective cultural movements move. Here are the three most basic: 1) Who's the audience ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

But this year in my current role leading the Active Voice Lab for Story & Strategy I did more listening than screening. They are fully dedicated to their craft and want their artistic contributions to be authentic and tangible. What resources will be needed? Why this story, now? Maya’s film may have indeed had impact.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

We’re proud to welcome new Editorial Committee members, and introduce Ashley Paulisick, the artist behind the cover painting. Advocacy Advocacy change journal change management Change Management Community Infrastructure Leadership Leadership nten change Organizational Culture seo Staffing strategy Strategy technology Web Sites websites'

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

We ran with it and have since generated data about decision-making, cooperation, competition and negotiation for scientists (and also some artists) to play with. I wholeheartedly believe it has the power to advance science (and art and cultural heritage) through the power of play. as a part of Experimonth: Race.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Many artists work with assistants and reproducing processes. They conducted a simple experiment: People read a story about a painting called "Dawn" created by an artist. In some, the artist produced the original painting. Gallerists hired another artist to reproduce it. Are the reproductions less real than the original?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it. Every Saturday, the curatorial team at Elsewhere , a living museum in downtown Greensboro, NC, reviews the project proposals of its artists-in-residence.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

When basketball players are offering more cogent commentary on racial issues than cultural institutions, you know we have a cultural relevance problem. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. What should be our role(s)? Can we be as brave and direct as these young women? Things must change.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

We sent weekly Membership Monday emails; created a new space online and on social media with story time, art activities, curatorial walk throughs; provided holiday meals for purchase from our café each month; and hosted Zoom talks with artists from our collection.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

CNN "Many of the games at Babycastles don't fit the traditional definitions of the medium; they veer closer to artistic experimentation than they do to mass-market viability." - New York Times Future Babycastles is in Williamsburg, just opened. That's one of the goals of research institutions and cultural spaces in general.

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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. Attendance has increased in the past two years from 150,000 to 400,000 annually. I agree with the serious concerns in #1 and #2.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2018

The positions are: OFBYFOR ALL Communications Catalyst : to fuel the OFBYFOR ALL movement by organizing civic and cultural professionals online and at conferences around the world. This is a part-time contract role, 24 hours/week, with a salary range of $17-$19/hour.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

That’s what I used to think along with many of my design role models. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

My role changed from the “expert&# to guide on the side. 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. But not all the artists are comfortable on Twitter.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

literary and artistic works … in the form of text, notation and/or related illustrations, whether published or otherwise made publicly available in any media;”. The role of the Authorized Entity is critical in the Treaty, and it’s a straightforward definition. Noteworthy Articles in the Treaty: Article 2(a). Works Covered.

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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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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2011

I've often argued that art and history museums should adopt this approach and encourage visitors to explore their potential as artists or historians, not just audiences for content. From my perspective, the most powerful outcome of role-playing is a sense of empathy for someone else's experience. Even if they scare you."

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

As recently noted by Frank Barry of Blackbaud, technology plays a key role as the art and culture sector engages its audience. Spread over three months and six cities, the festival presents a big challenge in keeping visitors engaged and informed. To tackle the challenge, Zero1 decided to create an app.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Over the past seven years, this exploration has been undertaken by a staff of artists and more than 35 creators each year participating in our residency program.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2014

Over the past eight years, Michael has been specifically focused on the Arts and Cultural marketplace and is an active participant in delivering speaking engagements and contributing to trade publication articles. . How do you internally define arts and culture? It’s what we all are expected to do, isn’t it?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I'm personally most excited about the two types of interns who will be reporting to me: Community Research interns, who will start developing a methodology for us to use to understand how people in Santa Cruz connect with arts and culture experiences and what role the museum can play in satisfying their interests. Sounds good?

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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

It's not unusual for me and our public programming staff members to have several short interactions every week with newcomers who walk in the door with idiosyncratic visions for cultural engagement. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

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. Sometimes that results in an artist-led cascading collaborative sculpture of 475 visitor-made scrap metal fish.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2010

government, members of the diplomatic corps, successful business and civil society leaders, philanthropists, media professionals, academics, artists etc. Forum One found that it had a huge role to play as staff engaged in conversation and built connections with D.C.

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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. Accessibility: Start small and focusing on the benefit.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 26, 2015

Volunteer engagement isn’t just a trivial award or public recognition, but rather part of a nonprofit’s culture. Andrew Stanley, president and co-founder of VolunteerMark , said volunteer engagement ties into the overall culture and how you treat volunteers. It ties into the larger culture of how you treat the volunteer.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2016

It was especially valuable to have activists, retired government employees, and social service leaders on the team; they brought helpful perspectives on what advocacy means beyond a cultural context. We partner with thousands of artists and organizations, providing staff support and engagement in their work.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

My first online community builder/facilitator job was with Arts Wire, an online network for artists, that used a unix-based, text-based online discussion software. Arts Wire, a project of NYFA, was originally intended to be a place for artists from all over the country to meet, exchange ideas, and talk about their work via the Internet.

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