The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Artistic Appreciation: Display the art, music, and literature of Latino artists. Fund the Future: Launch fundraising campaigns in support of Latino-led initiatives or education, ensuring their growth and sustainability. These pages can host videos and images and narrate the artists’ stories.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 16, 2022

Imagine if you didn’t need an expensive camera, artistic mastery, or a ton of time to create what was in your mind’s eye. Generate Imagery for Fundraising Materials. If you’re working on fundraising materials, AI image generators can be a huge help. A picture is worth a thousand words. Public image: [link]. Public image: [link].

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Concert tickets Buying concert tickets has become like a competitive sport, as passionate fans flood ticket platforms to see their favorite artist live. For example, if your town is known for gorgeous cherry blossom trees, offering paintings with these trees by a local artist can inspire bidding. What Nonprofits Need to Know.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Parker, a Seneca Indian who worked as the director of the Museum of Arts and Science in Rochester, N.Y. There are plenty of museums and museum exhibits dedicated to telling American Indian history and helping people better understand Indigenous culture. The earliest efforts were led in the early 1900s by Dr. Arthur C.

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DipJar

AUGUST 9, 2022

They’re so much more than book museums. The library’s physical art gallery was converted to a digital one that continued to present the work of area artists. The Curtis Friends is a non-profit organization whose mission is to enhance the library’s role as a valued community resource through advocacy, fundraising, and volunteerism.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums. The vast majority of American museums are institutions of white privilege. They present masterpieces by white male artists and innovations by white male scientists. I never saw comparable adjectives used in the European art labels at the museum.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2014

This week, I''m celebrating three years on the job as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. This spring marked a big conceptual shift for me and the museum. Our Curator will lead the way in bringing together professional artists and non-artist participants in the development of powerful exhibitions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Events are many people’s favorite thing about charity fundraising. While many of these fundraising event staples are great, such as fancy galas and golf tournaments, circumstances aren’t always ideal for in-person gatherings. A Gala is a well-known charity fundraising event. 7) Shopping.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Fundraising Category. Feed Your Inner Starving Artist -- Raffle for a glass making class in the museum glass studio and dinner -- by the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum – Why I liked it? Everyone has an artist inside them waiting to paint, sculpt, craft, etc. Program Category.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

With income from performances and classes down, and many granting organizations focused on other sectors, fundraising for arts organizations has never been more important. This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more. Want to learn more about peer-to-peer fundraising? Don’t be discouraged.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I can't believe that an art museum can be front page news in LA for days." He was mandated to turn the ship around financially and to expand the reach of the museum in the community. The discussion then shifted to the overall direction of the museum.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

Now that we’re well into 2021 and approaching a post-COVID reality in many parts of the world, nonprofit professionals have pondered what fundraising events will look like with both in-person and virtual engagements. You already know that virtual auction fundraisers are possible and fruitful, but the possibilities are almost endless.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2015

We each created our own crowd fundraising pages online and enthusiastically asked our friends and family, from all over the country, to donate to the cause to support us in our efforts. That’s the beauty of crowd fundraising. But crowd fundraising isn’t just for runs, walks, or polar plunges anymore. But here I am, still alive.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

It's my second week as the Executive Director at The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz, CA, and boy is my everything tired. And despite the fact that I've enjoyed being at the museum for 12 hours plus for ten days in a row, I'm quickly realizing that if I want to really get some fun participatory projects going, I need some help.

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

Museum of Contemporary Art. Learning Labs are a chance for individuals attending MCON 2015 in-person at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago discuss ideas and get practical advice from experts across many industries. He’ll be leading a discussion on nonprofit technology and peer fundraising. The Art Assignment.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. And yet in the museum world, we still see interactives as being mostly for kids.

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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. game and the Neversink Valley Museum's capital campaign launch materials. The museum's page is much simpler.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Nonprofit organizations have a lot of challenges relating to fundraising. For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. A creative fundraiser can make any of these items sound attractive to the donor. Invitation-only Slack Group.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Last week, I was in Minneapolis for the American Association of Museums annual meeting. Kathleen McLean led a terrific session called "Dangerous Ridiculous" about risk-taking in museums. Interestingly, at my museum, our team is naturally better at ridiculous than we are at dangerous. I found this idea really powerful.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Fundraising during Covid has been disruptive for everyone – every single sector has been impacted but particularly those that work in event fundraising. Due to social isolation policies, many nonprofits have had to cancel or reimagine their future fundraising events (depending on their location). Crowdfunding.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 28, 2015

Lighthouse’s use of lightbulbs and public art didn’t just act as a way to toot their horn, but it also provided awareness about their needs and served as a fundraiser. Local artists decorated and designed the 51 6-foot-tall light bulbs, which have been spread throughout the city. The project has been a massive success.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 28, 2015

Lighthouse’s use of lightbulbs and public art didn’t just act as a way to toot their horn, but it also provided awareness about their needs and served as a fundraiser. Local artists decorated and designed the 51 6-foot-tall light bulbs, which have been spread throughout the city. The project has been a massive success.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2017

This is the eleventh in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. We had 2,000 t-shirts to give away, 850 balls to drop, and over a hundred artists, accordionists, salsa dancers, taiko drummers, and bubble ladies ready to go.

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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. We were lucky enough to have a fabulous space for the workshop in the Contemporary Jewish Museum. He is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and an expert in using social. I said yes.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 17, 2015

People from across the country will gather at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago to experience MCON in person and over 20,000 people will stream the event online. He’ll be leading a discussion on nonprofit technology and peer fundraising. to meet artists and solicit assignments from them that everyone can participate in.

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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. Voodoo Museum. We can't wait to see all of the nonprofit techies and fundraisers descend onto New Orleans this year! The Audubon Zoo. More to see & do: The Garden District. Swamp Tours.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2015

Year after year, MCON proves to be an unforgettable experience for artists, media, social entrepreneurs, corporate, nonprofit and public leaders, and passionate people from across the country. MCON 2015 is happening June 24-25 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

If you lead a nonprofit, you know how important your fundraising events are. A fundraising event is the best way to engage with donors, garner support for your mission, and meet your revenue targets. But one question you might find yourself frequently asking is “What kind of fundraising event should we host next?”.

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

NFTs: The new fundraising frontier? . As fundraisers, it’s worth thinking about what assets your organization might be able to auction off, but there are still lots of questions. Are there artists or other influencers who might be interested in partnering with your organization to support you through NFTs? Not all fun and games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

Podcasting The ABCs of Podcasting from PND covers how Web sites of public radio stations, museums, and other education-oriented nonprofits are turning to podcasting as an increasingly popular and inexpensive way of delivering audio programming. The beta launch of ChipIn , a fundraising widget for blogs, will make blog raising easier.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

posted by Maureen O'Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum. As the development director at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM), which celebrates the music of every country in the world, my team has a platform to fundraise internationally.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

posted by Maureen O''Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum I recently had the opportunity to travel to Paris, France to attend the 5ème conférence de fundraising pour le secteur culturel (5th conference on fundraising for the cultural sector) put on by the Association Française des Fundraisers (French Association of Fundraisers).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

For instance, the San Francisco Museum of Art has 34,678 items in its collection. To share its entire collection with art lovers, the museum created the “Send Me” bot allows anyone to send a simple text message and receive a picture of a piece of art matching the idea, words, or phrase texted.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Silent auctions are a great way to fundraise and encourage donors to get involved with nonprofits. With the right resources, you can elevate your fundraiser from the average auction experience to a streamlined event that will leave a lasting impression on your auction guests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

While it is probably difficult to absolutely prove cause and effect, implementing a crowd artistic creation requires a discussion about letting go of control or at least being explicit about how creative contributions will be accepted or curated or added to the work. Do you accept everything or is there curation? A Crowd-Curated Exhibition.”

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2013

I asked how their new Exploring Engagement Fund (of which my museum was an early grant recipient) was going. First, and close to home, it meant the possibility that the Irvine Foundation might become a funder of the work we do at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History around active arts participation and social bridging.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

For several years now, January 1st not only means the beginning of the New Year, but also an opportunity to look at trends in year-end fundraising emails from nonprofit organizations. Here is the 2015 edition of my annual review of year-end nonprofit fundraising email subject lines. (Be Emails by Hour. That’s a new record.

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