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40+ Unforgettable Live Auction Items that Sell Well

Bloomerang

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.

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10 Amazing Environmental Nonprofits You Need to Know About

Tech Soup

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. Cary Creative Center in North Carolina is an upcycling nonprofit that provides used artistic materials to people. Shoreline Solar.

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The Diversity Question in the Arts Blogosphere

Museum 2.0

I truly wish I could have attended Facing Race , which sounded like a completely awesome and transformative event this past fall in Baltimore. I recently met Jada Wright-Green, a museum professional who runs a site called Heritage Salon that looks at issues and possibilities in the African-American museum community.

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Adobe Is Creating Change

Tech Soup

The program empowers 12- to 18-year-olds to express their opinions and perspectives about issues important to them through photography, sound, video, and digital art. Adobe also partners with their nonprofit grantees to create programs for employees looking to offer volunteer hours and specialized help, like technical and artistic know-how.

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5 Podcasts That Keep Me Company

Have Fun - Do Good

Listen/subscribe on iTunes Tranquility du jour with Kimberly Wilson Kimberly Wilson, author of Hip Tranquil Chick: A Guide to Life On and Off the Yoga Mat , interviews artists, creative entrepreneurs, yoga teachers, and other hip tranquil chicks. Voices on Genocide Prevention by the U.S. podcast nonprofit human rights spiritual UNICEF

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An Open Letter to Museums on Twitter

Museum 2.0

It may sound like work to reply to others, but it can be easier than generating your own content. I don't feel, as Tyler Green does , that an art museum MUST tweet about art. These institutions are showing their appreciation for and interest in other people's comments and discussions. and the conversation begins. What would fit there?

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The Wildness in the Corner: A Discussion with Jason Nelson

Museum 2.0

As an artist and a lecturer at the university, I'm expected to put my work up in competitions as art. When I lived in Bowling Green, the museums in Ohio used to bother me with exhibitions like The Art of Star Wars. I'm working with speech to text software to filter outside sound and create poems. game, game, and.