Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Back in the mid-1990′s – after 15 years of working the nonprofit sector, I got obsessed by technology and started working as the network weaver for an online network of artists called ArtsWire. His projects included the National Strategy for Nonprofit Technology and the Circuit Riders Program.

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MARCH 29, 2022

It’s also a time for gifts and new clothes, making this a great chance to raise funds or donations of new clothing, especially for children. Remember to have a picnic afterwards for trophies and more opportunities to raise funds. Pass the Plate at Passover (varies; usually late March/late April). Here’s a guide on how to write a haiku.

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APRIL 14, 2022

Take a look at how HikeFor.com is helping Donate Life America raise funds. It’s the perfect way to celebrate Pride Month in the US for LGBTQIA-focused organizations — the Charleston-based We Are Family hosted one last year to fund its new drop-in center. Bonus points if the artist does an entire custom flash related to your cause.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

How would you fund it? Kickstarter is a website for creative folks to find funding for their dream projects. Funding goal. Kickstarter is an "all or nothing" funding scheme. For the most part, Kickstarter projects are managed by young, creative individuals with small projects (and smallish funding goals) in mind.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

I''m part of a cohort of ten arts organizations in California funded by the Irvine Foundation to strengthen our work to engage low-income and ethnically-diverse people. ON TACKLING A STUCK THING// Deborah Cullinan (Executive Director of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts ) spoke about the change process. We meet in person twice a year.

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JUNE 29, 2021

Garden party auctions are a popular event that can bring in a lot of funds and provide a good time for supporters. Any excuse to leave the house is sure to attract a lot of supporters and raise much needed funds! Do you have any local artists in your area or artistic, passionate supporters in your donor base?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

Here's what happened: In 2010, amidst severe financial woes and declining audiences, the Museum of Contemporary Art in LA (MOCA), hired Jeffrey Deitch, a NYC gallery owner, to be their new director. It's wild to see so many bloggers and museum directors and critics weigh in. Is it good value to pay a museum director $650,000 per year?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

2012 Stacey Edgar, Founder, Global Girlfriend listen 2011 Gabriela Masala, Founder, One Love Alliance listen Robert Wolfe, Co-Founder, Crowdrise listen Aneesha Raghunathan, Founder, Hope Line Fashions listen Rachel Cohen, Founder and Executive Director, Hand2Paw listen Kathy LeMay, Founder, Raising Change. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

One notable aspect of the success of Gasland, which recently won the Emmy Award for documentary film, is the way director Josh Fox worked with grant makers at the Fledgling Fund to galvanize a movement that greatly amplified the efforts of traditional environmental groups.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

This blog was co-written by Associate Director, Ida Perrson, and SVP of Brand + Strategy, Amy Small. For example, when the world shut down, we had to think of new ways to help our clients raise funds when in-person events were no longer available. fancy food! silent auctions! corporate sponsorships!) This all sounds great, in theory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Bridging the Opportunity Divide – Empowering Youth to Imagine and Realize their Futures – guest post by Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship at Microsoft. NFTE and four other youth nonprofits will receive new funding from Microsoft to enhance existing youth programs or start new initiatives.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I sat down with Kristen Denner, Director of Membership and Annual Fund, to learn more about the program's development and the museum's goals for its future. In some cases, the artist is not comfortable, or there are insurance and liability issues. Funding a research project that was serious. How did this project start?

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AUGUST 25, 2023

The arts still play a vital role in our communities, and there are plenty of opportunities out there to engage your supporters, craft an appeal, and raise the funds your organization needs to move forward. Get creative and host an auction for your arts organization where the artistic experience itself is what’s up for bidding.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Marisa Handler, Author, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Listen Read Cami Walker, Founder, 29-Day Giving Challenge Listen Read Marianne Manilov, National Team Leader, The Engage Network Listen Read Favianna Rodriguez, Political Digital Artist and Printmaker. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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MARCH 14, 2017

In the third part of our three part series on monitoring your nonprofit’s financial health, the terrific Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) is here with all the answers in this week’s guest blog post. Thanks once again to Alice Antonelli, Director for Advisory Services at NFF, for her great advice!

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JUNE 15, 2011

Over the course of her career, she has made the transition from marketing “artist&# to marketing “scientist&# by uncovering ways to measure the impact of marketing in the organizations serves. Karla Capers, Online Director, Union of Concerned Scientists. Jocelyn Harmon, Director of Nonprofit Services at Care2.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

In the first edition of this partnership, I interviewed Erin O'Connor Jones , the Director of Candidate Services and Managing Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Shout out to Get Fully Funded ! Snap a photo of the donor while at your facility or event and frame it and send it to them (also from Get Fully Funded ). You will help our democracy when you…” or “these funds will raise the sophistication of our entire sector.” Program-Related Perks. Hear me out. Maybe 2 meetings a year).

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MAY 10, 2016

Funded by the John S. Over the course of our 24-week voter engagement campaign, NSD hired 60 artists to create 60 “Vote Here/Vote Aqui” signs. The artists came from more than 20 different Philadelphia neighborhoods. Involve Artists from the Very Beginning. and James L. our volunteers were out there gathering data.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

Sarah has worked at the Walker since 1992 and is currently the Director of Education and Community Programs. Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. How do you loosen up funds? It's always seemed challenging here to find funds for interpretative materials.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 17, 2012

But in the past year and a half as a museum director, I find myself increasingly interested in #3 and #4. We invited local artists and community groups to perform. We make room for interns and artists and people who walk in the door with crazy ideas. We scrounged for free couches.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

The result, Our Museum , is an extraordinary funding program with a focus on community participation. Our Museum started with a clear-eyed assessment of community engagement funding and practices across the UK. Five years later, project director Dr. Piotr Bienkowski's final report for Our Museum tells a different story.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Marisa Handler, author, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist Listen Read Cami Walker, Founder, 29-Day Giving Challenge Listen Read Marianne Manilov, National Team Leader, The Engage Network Listen Read Favianna Rodriguez, Political Digital Artist and Printmaker. Co-Editor, Reproduce and Revolt!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

How might we create a funding model that nourishes flexibility and innovation? The Brainerd Foundation would follow and fund the ideas of new leaders. After projects were funded, we’d continue the virtuous circle by returning to listening mode. How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3. Concept 2: Mission: Possible.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

As artistic director Abe Burickson described their work to me, I imagined Theseus walking deeper into the labyrinth towards the Minotaur. He spoke of the audience as providing a challenge, a challenge like any other artistic constraint. Does "starting from the audience" mean pandering to narcissism and dumbing down work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 19, 2009

2006 Alli Chagi-Starr, Co-Founder, Art in Action / Art & Media Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights’ Reclaim the Future Program. Listen Read Eric Fenster & Ari Derfel, Co-owners, Back to Earth Listen Read Brahm Ahmadi, Executive Director, People's Grocery Listen Read Mei-ying Ho (now Williams), Co-Director of SOUL.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Way better than that video at Museum X where the director drones on about the new initiatives of the year. I LOVE the way the James Irvine Foundation presents their lessons learned from grant-making in the Arts Innovation Fund program. I know I have a lot to learn from the content AND the format of this report.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

When we work with diverse collaborators, from opera singers and ukelele players to knitters and graffiti artists, we catalyze new partnerships and relationships that make our community stronger and more cohesive. We may not have funding for your project, but we won''t tie it up in red tape either. You just get bigger.

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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. How can we develop audiences, cultivate care and empathy, and find alternate funding that doesn’t require public popularity so that important stories get told? How can we ensure truly revolutionary, “punk rock” ideas get found, selected & funded?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum , and an expert in using social media in a museum setting. James pulled together a group of funding partners and Clay Lord from Theatre Bay Area. He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and an expert in using social. I said yes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Auctions and raffles are a fantastic approach to sell things that get a lot of attention and generate significant donations for your cause, but using the latest in online software, there’s no reason you can’t simply set up an online shopping page to raise funds as well. 10) Hybrid concerts. About the Author.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months. But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection.

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MAY 21, 2015

Cary Creative Center in North Carolina is an upcycling nonprofit that provides used artistic materials to people. The organization has collected donations from 560 people, helped 1,800 people with funding for their solar installations, and spared the planet from 535,000 pounds of carbon dioxide. " Sunstone Montessori School.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Its funding has skyrocketed as major foundations and technology companies have made multi-million dollar grants and investments in its growth. It's no coincidence that Beth Harris' last job was as Director of Digital Learning at MoMA. Many museums produce superb lesson plans, curator interviews and artist interviews for the web.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2009

At the time, I was a program director for an arts education program and a facilitator of career counseling workshops for artists. A co-worker recommended that I go to the Green Festival and hear Van Jones, who was the Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights at the time, speak about, "Green Jobs, Not Packed Jails."

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project. We invited a cross-section of artists, filmmakers, and advertisers to join us for a think tank. So what did you do next? The website for the stories is beautiful.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Eric talked about how the New York Hall of Science is trying to fund risk-taking, not just talk about it or under-resource it. This was a topic I was never interested in before I became a director. 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.

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