CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Yeah, there’s a lot to keep in mind as we round the corner to the last quarter of 2021. Paint and sip events work for any type of organization, artists of all levels, and can easily be adapted for every season. If you’re going the DIY route, reach out to a local artist to lead the class, and stock up on all the necessary supplies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

The museum curator does research, is an expert in the artistic style, selects the best examples, puts them together in an exhibit, provides important context with the annotation on the labels, and so on. Not too long ago content curators used to be called journalists! If you think about what a museum curator does, it is very similar.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. PieLab (Greensboro, AL).

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

And it’s a sweet life to have been able to turn service into a supportive business model. That we don’t have to be chained to the singular story of suffering looping around in our mind. Supporting art and artists, writers and books. The idea that pleasure is more deeply inherent in service than selfishness thrills me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Participants voted on the questions that would be most important for the Brainerd Foundation to consider in its strategy: How might we adopt a hybrid model of new and old power? How might we create a funding model that nourishes flexibility and innovation? How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3. Concept 2: Mission: Possible.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song. But overall, this is a model project that starts with an outcome, not an activity.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

That’s what I used to think along with many of my design role models. For many of us, the devil in the details has actually poisoned our minds to think that those details are something other people must have. By stripping away extra details and embellishments, we ultimately create the ideal user experience. Design as Protest.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

I led a session with Eric Siegel and Ellen Rosenthal on museum business models and some of the issues we grapple with in managing money. And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

It is open to creators from all backgrounds – from charities to video game developers to artists. Indiegogo is quite a bit more flexible than Kickstarter, giving you the option to choose an "all-or-nothing model or to keep your pledges whether you not you reach your goal. Special Plan for Nonprofits: No.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

The curatorial team or a multidisciplinary team who have the audience in mind when decisions are made about the best way to connect visitors to the collection?" What is on their minds. Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 14, 2017

Keep in mind, a lawyer’s rates will be different from an administrative assistant’s rate, or an artistic director’s salary. Measures of financial health, smart business models and full costs are all important areas of focus for NFF.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A cheerful curly-haired deli owner stands in front of 30 of us and shares a quote he loves: "Artists live in the present and write detailed histories of the future." In the Zingerman's model, visioning is for everyone at all levels of the organization. You'll warm up your hand and get yourself in a positive frame of mind.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

By Sean Kosofsky , is the Nonprofit Fixer and founder of Mind the Gap Consulting. Sometimes a nonprofit has access to world-class chefs, celebrities, artists, or architects or well-known lawmakers. Throughout the year you can connect with other donors and funders and the people we serve (artists, students, activists).”.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

For the most part, Kickstarter projects are managed by young, creative individuals with small projects (and smallish funding goals) in mind. For example, check out the charming way this comic book artist personalizes his relationship with potential backers in this video , minute 2.)

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

It is open to creators from all backgrounds – from charities to video game developers to artists. Indiegogo is quite a bit more flexible than Kickstarter, giving you the option to choose an "all-or-nothing model or to keep your pledges whether you not you reach your goal. Special Plan for Nonprofits: No.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2023

It exists in the algorithms that govern your Facebook timeline, explains why YouTube always recommends the perfect video, or more recently, powers the Large Language Models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s Chat-GPT , Google’s Bard , or Bing’s AI Chatbot , and others that have made headlines. Chat-GPT is a generative large language model.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Not all platforms are made alike, while some are uniquely designed for artists, others target consumers, and very few are specializing in charities. Keep in mind that once a donor is out of your site, there are distractions that could make going back to your page difficult.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

And yet, over the last few years, as the web has unlocked piles of information, a quiet group of math-minded designers are figuring out how to interpret the vast impersonalness of data and make it both beautiful and meaningful. I met one of these data artists last year while visiting a friend/journalist at the New York Times.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible. Our new catalog and website will be up within the next two months.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2012

Here are three of those assumptions and their substantiation in the Detroit Free Press: The arts are a private matter: Arts are about individual tastes, experiences and enrichment, and individual expression by artists. This perspective was rampant in Michigan. As one Detroit Free Press commenter wrote: "You are not getting it.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2007

Which made my mind go to a far more irreverent destination: Mad Libs. I remember the first time an artist friend of mine took me to a museum and I watched him laugh at some of the art. The artist made something funny." Pick a plural noun. Then an adjective. Then a number. Then a verb in present tense. Then another plural noun.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

The mission of World of Good, as a company, is to create the largest distribution system for fair trade, handmade items from artists' and women's cooperatives around the world. The way that World of Good has really gone about this is, we have done it in a two-part model. So the pricing models are all based on commodity pricing.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

And while there's lots of good stuff in these sections (including an introduction for me to some wild net artists ), it's the last chunk that interests me most, where Karen explores the question of how and where Internet art should be exhibited. Fear is never a good reason to put things (like ratings or visitor comments) on the website only.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

In it, John provides a model for the museum visitor experience based on one fundamental idea: people visit and make meaning from museum experiences based on their ability to fulfill identity-related goals and interests. And this brings me back to the mountains.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs. Bosses are like boyfriends; they're not mind readers.

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Allegiance Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Crowdfunding Platforms Crowdfunding campaigns are becoming increasingly popular among individual ventures, independent artists, and nonprofits. To narrow down your options, make sure to have a specific budget in mind and create lists of “must-have” features. Contact the GivingDNA team for more information.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2007

But in this project, each artist is uniquely powerful because they give voice to something vital, something easy for viewers to access emotionally. When you read a card that says, “I’m still in love with who you used to be,” where does your mind go? PostSecret is a model for where museums can go with 2.0.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

I am an artist and I was getting my Masters of Fine Arts at the time from John F. Britt: Your training is as a fine artist. Have a cash flow model that works, that is in real time. So, we joined forces, he with his tea knowledge and myself. Kennedy University. They are amazing. Reem: Good question. Be organized from Day One.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And let’s see if we can get your slides going here, if you don’t mind sharing again. So I just want to say, by the way, that artists have left a huge legacy around San Francisco during this pandemic. They need to have it kind of as just this little idea in their mind, and we’ll talk about how to get that there.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

If anyone out there is considering creating an industry catch-all site for museum-related content, I highly recommend Gamasutra as a model. When I read this list, my mind leaps to fantasy. When I’m in MOMA, at least I know that as I go from room to room of the main collection, I’m not “missing” any particular era, genre, or artist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

What comes to mind when you think of the word crowdsourcing either for funding or doing? There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. What do you track?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Most of our nonprofits have a human or community interest in mind, that purpose, and they exist to create impact, positive impact on the communities that we serve. So look at the fact, are you creating and using an evidence-based program model? So, if your program has an evidence-based model, and I’m not just saying.

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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

Charlene Li and Forrester Research developed one of the other more popular ROI models for Social Media. While this model focuses more on the ROI for blogs , there are some useful metrics that can be applied to other forms of social media. Of course one of the biggest returns is brand visibility. All rights reserved.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The World Beach Project is managed by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with artist-in-residence Sue Lawty. Many museums do not provide participants with clear terms surrounding their submissions, and for savvy people (especially artists!) In their personal statements, beach artists wrote about profound connections to nature.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

It seemed to be a really good and sustainable model, and we raised around $300,000 doing that kind of work. The other thing that Off the Mat, Into the World does is that we create and model our own outreach projects, but on a grander scale. I think that, ultimately, is a good model for me to be an effective activist in the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now. How to have better practices in communication, and I think one of the things we do at Art and Action is model collective leadership.

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