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Broken Crayons: What Happens When Nonprofit Leadership Fails Fundraisers of Color

Bloomerang

After all, y’all said so in the three interviews we had with the staff, Executive Director, and the Board of Directors. The book is an anthology of stories written by fundraisers of color in the United States and Canada: . So, what happened? But it was OK now. The scars remain, but they don’t hurt like they once did.

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What now?

Museum 2.0

If that is not your family story, think about that. It is why “Women artists” are “finally getting their due.” It is why in the great museum upheavals of 2020 no white male director of import ended up getting toppled. It is why academia requires only academically trained artists succeed.

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Bridging the Opportunity Divide – Empowering Youth to Imagine and Realize their Futures

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Bridging the Opportunity Divide – Empowering Youth to Imagine and Realize their Futures – guest post by Akhtar Badshah, Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship at Microsoft. A video of her story is here. Akhtar Badshah is Senior Director of Corporate Citizenship at Microsoft. This youth panel was truly inspiring for me.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live on May 16: Gaming

Tech Soup

Pacific time featuring experts and stories from organizations that have found new and innovative ways to catalyze social impact through digital games. Ben co-founded Games for Change and served as a co-director until 2007. Josephine Dorado, ( @funksoup ) is a social entrepreneur, educator, artist, producer, and skydiver.

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Meet the 2012 Digital Storytelling Challenge Judges

Tech Soup

While our community is busy from March 6 – 12 picking their favorites for the Audience Choice Awards , our panel of expert judges will be selecting the top digital stories from among hundreds of entries. Aaron Bramley is co-founder and director of communication/education for Lights. As the Dean of Story.

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Turning Waste into Beautiful Art

Tech Soup

I'm thrilled to say that one of our winning 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest submissions is TechSoup member Cary Creative Center , or "C3," an organization working to save materials from the landfill by turning them into beautiful art. Betsy Dassau, C3's founder and executive director, believes in the power of art.

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What I Didn't Learn in School: Diane Ragsdale's Crash Course on Beauty and Aesthetic Values

Museum 2.0

I have an unusual education for the director of an art & history museum: a degree in electrical engineering. I've been getting a taste of what I'm missing by devouring Diane Ragsdale's terrific series of blog posts about the course she is teaching on Approaching Beauty for business students at UW-Madison. A lot, I suspect.

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