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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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11 Unique Fundraising Ideas for Arts Organizations

Neon CRM

Share your story through personal emails or handwritten notes from your board and stakeholders. Finish it up with a story that highlights the value of your organization, and you’ve got yourself a gripping appeal. 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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What I Didn't Learn in School: Diane Ragsdale's Crash Course on Beauty and Aesthetic Values

Museum 2.0

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. You'll burrow down rabbit holes of gorgeous videos, cerebral reading lists, and provocative artist talks. A lot, I suspect.

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5 Things to Look Forward to at MCON 2015

Achieve

The theme of MCON 2015 is “The Power of Influence: Art, Media, Business and Place” and an incredible lineup of speakers from the corporate, nonprofit and public sectors will share stories of the successes and failures they’ve encountered while changing the world. SOME OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS IN THE COUNTRY.

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Young, old, poor, rich, conservative, liberal, urban, rural, black, white, brown, red, yellow, gay, straight, preps, goths, rappers, artists, hippies, yuppies… you name it. Beauty is on the eye of the beholder and some people just like the chaos and artistic freedom of MySpace, while some like the neat clean, linear look of Facebook.

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75 Top Fundraising Ideas for Nonprofits

Neon CRM

They may be able to work with local stores or boutiques that act as sponsors and also get to show off their collections. You can find local comedians on entertainer-sourcing sites like GigSalad or The Bash, or you can ask for help from local comedy clubs. Haunted House Tours There are a couple different ways to go about this.

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Adobe Is Creating Change

Tech Soup

The Foundation supports organizations with a principal focus on the creation and exhibition of visual and multimedia art, as well as those that use or teach design as a tool to address social issues and to improve lives and communities. The Bronx Guild in New York brings you the story of a young woman coming out to her family.

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