Whole Whale

MARCH 10, 2021

New records for sales of the digital good seem to be reached each week with an upcoming sale of NFT artist Beeple’s ‘Everydays’ compilation went for $69 million in March, 2021 (source: The Verge ). If you can’t wait and just want to jump to ideas for how nonprofits can leverage NFTs, skip to the bottom. What are NFTs?

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Read on to learn about the origins of National Native American Heritage Month, how you can celebrate, and what nonprofits you can support this November. Parker, a Seneca Indian who worked as the director of the Museum of Arts and Science in Rochester, N.Y. The earliest efforts were led in the early 1900s by Dr. Arthur C.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Live auctions are exciting, fast-paced nonprofit events that can bring in a lot of revenue. Offer meet and greet opportunities with celebrities such as: Musicians Athletes Comedians Actors See if you can ask the celebrity to send in a quick video showing support for your nonprofit’s mission to inspire more bidding.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

With so many apps coming out all the time it’s easy to miss the ones built for social good and hard to keep up on useful apps that nonprofits and causes can use to do their work. This week we’ve found apps from museums. ArtClix from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Louis apps by Missouri History Museum.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

And because we love rapid ideation and an excuse for a fundraiser here at Whole Whale, we’ve put together over 30 fun nonprofit fundraising ideas for you to spring into this season. 37 Spring Fundraising Ideas for Small Nonprofits Click To Tweet. We’re willing to bet $1 that there’s at least one you haven’t thought of.

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DipJar

AUGUST 9, 2022

They’re so much more than book museums. Not a librarian by training, she started her career in public relations before moving into nonprofits. The library’s physical art gallery was converted to a digital one that continued to present the work of area artists. At DipJar, we love our customers. Laptops and hotspots were offered.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Online virtual fundraising is one of the most popular ways for nonprofits to raise money. Maybe your nonprofit hasn’t yet developed an online fundraising plan. Either way, it’s time to brush up on your peer-to-peer fundraising chops and check out some online fundraising ideas that you can use to attract donors to your nonprofit.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Over 1400 taglines were submitted to the Nonprofit Tagline Awards. Creating good taglines for your nonprofit’s brand is challenging. 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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Is that a Zen graffiti artist? Did he run out of paint before spraying the letter “e&# ? Who knows, but if nonprofits embrace abundance, wouldn’t it give them more time to breathe? “ Marnie talks about the importance of data aggregation and synthesis skills as a new competency for nonprofits.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

In the modern fundraising world, creating an online fundraising strategy is essential to the success of your nonprofit. From standard digital donation forms to peer-to-peer fundraisers , there are a wide variety of ways that nonprofits can fundraise virtually. Virtual tours for museums. Student art show. Design challenge.

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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. Need help deciding what type of online auction your nonprofit should host? You’ve come to the right place!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

I’ve been busy interviewing people who work for nonprofits for my next book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit : Strategies for Impact without Burnout, with Aliza Sherman. Nina Simon, a long time colleague and author of the Museum 2.0 ENVIRONMENTAL : manipulating surroundings/conditions to create a supportive space.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 25, 2011

Musical Instrument Museum. As a member of the board of YNPN (Young Nonprofit Professionals Network) Phoenix, I have been fortunate to cross paths with some extraordinary emerging leaders, facilitators, mentors, and nonprofit sector thought leaders. Not your usual nonprofit conference, not just for nonprofit organizations.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2013

She argued that we need a way to correct for the fact that nonprofits don''t operate in a traditional capitalist marketplace, and therefore aren''t subject to the market forces that might otherwise cause them to fold when they are no longer useful. Consider the museum I run. Devon didn''t mince words. I am part of the problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2008

Last week I taught a social media workshop for artists and arts nonprofits and did some research on different arts organizations using social media effectively. The Brooklyn Museum kept coming up as a stellar example, particularly its Click Exhibition (Nina Simon wrote an analysis of the project here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2008

In April, I taught a social media workshop for artists and arts nonprofits and did some research. The Brooklyn Museum kept coming up as a stellar example, particularly its Click Exhibition , an experiment in crowd-sourced exhibits. I'm also interested about how the museum approach the issue of moderating or not.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 30, 2009

NEWS I'm speaking about how artists can use social media to market their business next week, August 8th, at Artists Building their Business in Santa Fe, NM. The event is free, but limited to 250 artists. Lemme know what you think. Pre-registration by August 7 is required. A box lunch will be provided.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Content Curation for Nonprofits. Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? ” that I will be presenting at the Social Media for Nonprofits. Benefits for Nonprofits. A Few Good Starter Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

In the Networked Nonprofit “ Learning Loops , we illustrated how networked nonprofits do a real-time, lighter assessment process as they engage their community and make improvements and adjustments along the way. No one knew what I was talking about. I’m not sure I did, but fast forward two years and it is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. Artist Blogs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

You might try reaching out to businesses, artists, or other people in your neighborhood to see if they’d be willing to list things on your store (either as a donation or for a share of the profits) or produce branded items like mugs and hats based on popular products. 10) Hybrid concerts. 13) Scavenger hunts.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

artist's influences and the exhibit, in the artist's own words. For example, YBCA's audiences loved having access to artists' own unfiltered words. The Dallas Museum. museum, expanding access to the mobile tours even further. YBCA has developed apps with both educational and social. The DuSable.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

We’re about to see Pinterest use among nonprofit organizations explode. I’m always intrigued to see how nonprofits find creative ways to use new social media tools, but I didn’t think seriously about Pinterest’s potential for nonprofits until I read Joe Waters and Beth Kanter’s thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

One of the big themes in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , is the importance of experiments and not to frame them as success or failure but as learning. The problem I see all too often is that many nonprofits expect immediate success and at the first “failure&# they quit. Contemporary Jewish Museum.

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

Nonprofit Hub. Museum of Contemporary Art. Museum of Contemporary Art. Since its founding, Fashion Project has expanded to serve over 500 nonprofits, helping provide valuable funding for disease research, humanitarian aid, sustainability initiatives and disaster relief. It’s hard to believe we’re only two days away from.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

But Vi doesn't work in a science museum. Khan Academy, the free, nonprofit online source for educational instructional videos, is a young powerhouse in the online learning space. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, who are well known in museums for their excellent Smarthistory website and podcasts. the way the best museums do.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Musical Instrument Museum. This pairing speaks directly to my passion for the arts – my day job is as manager for individual giving at the Musical Instrument Museum , and I serve on several music-related boards, as well as perform as a flutist and singer. Maureen Baker , Manager for Individual Giving. Like this article?

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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. Nonprofit organizations have a lot of challenges relating to fundraising. Nonprofits need every tool possible to entice donors to join and then stick around for years. Download 54 Ways to Skyrocket Your Nonprofit Email List ! Get creative.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

It’s been a rough couple years for arts-based nonprofits. As pandemic aid has run out without patrons returning in pre-2020 numbers, many arts nonprofit across the country have had to shrink programming, cut staff, or close altogether. This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

This is a tricky question in the nonprofit arts world--and probably in every field. Below are two excellent e-books put out by the National Arts Marketing Project, one on artistic interventions in uncommon places , and one on taking a leap of faith with "weird" programming. Full disclosure: my museum is profiled in the latter.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2005

Some of the entries of what you can read on the Walker Blog, may appear at first glance to be mundane details of cube life , but then you remember that it is a museum blog and it makes the institution seem more human. What are some of the challenges to blogging in a nonprofit arts organization? week to writing.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

If you think about what a museum curator does, it is very similar. The museum curator does research, is an expert in the particular artistic style, selects the best examples, puts them together in an exhibit, provides important context with annotation on the labels, and so on. What is content curation exactly? And guess what?

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Everyaction

MARCH 22, 2018

We're just a few weeks away from one of the most highly anticipated nonprofit conferences of the year , and we're so excited to be headed down South to the Big Easy! 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.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 28, 2015

It’s important for nonprofits to celebrate their achievements and their milestones. Local artists decorated and designed the 51 6-foot-tall light bulbs, which have been spread throughout the city. Even other nonprofits are utilizing the project into their events. Nonprofits celebrate anniversaries all the time.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2016

Regardless of your institutional mission, nonprofits are all in the advocacy business. While most nonprofits regularly advocate for our own institutions and/or sector, I think it's just as important to advocate for the interests of the communities in which we serve. If you've been considering this for awhile, now is the time to act.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2017

This is the ninth 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. Working with creative people taught me to think like an artist: observe, explore, dive in, look out. The question is not, “what do I want to do?”

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 28, 2015

It’s important for nonprofits to celebrate their achievements and their milestones. Local artists decorated and designed the 51 6-foot-tall light bulbs, which have been spread throughout the city. Even other nonprofits are utilizing the project into their events. Nonprofits celebrate anniversaries all the time.

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