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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

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The Ann Arbor, Michigan-based team was motivated by the desire to find solutions for struggling businesses like the Detroit automobile producers. Clowns, acrobats, and trapeze artists entertain. Blue Ocean Strategy has the ring of a concept shaped by technology. Uncontested space is the gift of Blue Ocean Strategy.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Bloomerang

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. They support artist-driven film and new media storytelling projects (documentary films) that explore aspects of inequality, as well as the organizations and networks that support these documentary projects.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Kindful

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. They support artist-driven film and new media storytelling projects (documentary films) that explore aspects of inequality, as well as the organizations and networks that support these documentary projects.

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Voting on Art and its Surprising Consequences

Museum 2.0

Each of these invited members of the public to vote on art in a way that had substantive consequences--big cash prizes awarded, prestige granted, exhibitions offered. ArtPrize , the grandaddy of visitor voting, just completed its fourth year in Grand Rapids, Michigan. 1,708 artists participated. Full stats here.

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The Public Argument About Arts Support as Seen through the Lens of the Detroit Institute of Arts

Museum 2.0

I'm focusing on the community response to the prospect of the millage and the way the public debate reflects broader conversations about the public value of the arts. But the arguments trotted out represent how far we have to go in articulating the public value of arts institutions (and helping our supporters speak the same language).

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Share Our Strength Day of Service: Painting Murals in the School Cafeteria

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I started my  Day of Service experience at Friendship Public Charter School  at the Southeast Elementary Academy  in the school cafeteri where volunteers were hard at work painting two murals.      I met both of the artists and did live stream interviews with them. 

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For events, ongoing series, or recurring celebrations online, consider the following options for publicity: 1. A dog assistance charity in Michigan sends first-time donors 4 letters over the course of the year following the journey of a dog through certification. Events (publicity or other perks). Get creative.

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