Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Erika Atkins, Director of Operations at Opening Act , a theatre program that teaches theatre skills to students from New York City’s most underserved schools to help them succeed in life. Their program includes about teaching artists. She knows self-care is important to avoiding burn out and keeping a high staff retention. “.

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Qgiv

APRIL 27, 2022

Your foodie supporters will love the opportunity to learn some new skills in the kitchen and add new recipes to their repertoire under the watchful eye of expert culinary teachers. For your next school fundraiser , raffle off the opportunity to grab a sweet treat with your students’ favorite teachers. Cooking classes. Car servicing.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

I’m a grad student, after all! And being a grad student means I’ve got more than a few limitations, economically speaking. If you’re unfamiliar with the site, it’s a place for start-ups, artists, and local organizations to promote specific projects in order to receive funding. One more reality: I still want to help.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

Gateway to the Arts is a Pittsburgh-based organization that exposes young people to the arts through performances, classroom visits by professional artists, and integration of arts into school curriculum, all with a staff of six. Gateway spent some time researching various CMSes and decided that Joomla was the best alternative for them.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

Auction an Artistic Experience Auctions are popular fundraising events that all kinds of nonprofits use to engage and connect with their supporters. Get creative and host an auction for your arts organization where the artistic experience itself is what’s up for bidding. Which CRM is right for me?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Skill-sharing free schools. I'm fascinated by these places because of their ability to attract diverse audiences to idiosyncratic experiences, and I'm curious how they stay afloat. One of my favorite places for a long time now. I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Virtual: Online auctions are a category in and of themselves, allowing attendees to view items remotely using live streaming or images while they place online bids. DIY Craft Workshops Offer virtual craft workshops with participants paying a fee to attend and learn a new skill.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It’s not unusual for us to meet with an environmental activist, a balloon artist, a farmer, and the Mayor of Santa Cruz all in one day. Incredible assets, skills and resources to offer to your community but they are in need of more awareness, promotion, visibility and representation. Good communication skills and are kind and friendly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

These can be formatted as zoom backgrounds, sharable tiles/images/memes online, a Facebook cover image, or something small they can place in their electronic signature. Using QR Codes you can send someone a unique QR code that they can place anywhere (resume, electronic signature, LinkedIn profile, Slack profile, etc.)

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2016

And the best place to activate this generation of do-gooders is MCON 2016. Whether a student, entrepreneur, businessperson, filmmaker, fashion designer or artist, or simply a curious and caring mind, MCON is your opportunity to use your creativity to spark action. Register today at mcon.events/#register.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Art Exhibition You can never go wrong with highlighting local artists. Educational events hosted by nonprofits are powerful tools for sharing knowledge, developing skills, and empowering communities. Paint-Along Paint-along events bring out the inner artist in attendees.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. Some of the new volunteers are high school students, others are college professors.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

Through this online portal, anyone can search the transcribed and indexed Freedmen’s Bureau Archive in one place. Department of Education program, assesses students around the country on educational outcomes and reports the results to a wide set of stakeholders, including policymakers, education officials, and the media.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Studies of how arts participation affects student test scores. When the Crystal Bridges research was published on EducationNext, a teacher wrote in , effusive about the impact of museums on her students. The outcomes were significantly higher for students from "less-advantaged backgrounds." She needed money.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

You can also make announcements in other places, like small groups, Wednesday-night church, Bible studies, and other gatherings. This idea can also be paired with a number of other fundraising event possibilities like movie nights, lock-ins (for older students), and other childcare activities. Workers (they don’t have to be students!)

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, for example, if I provide an after-school program, I just use that a lot because I ran an after-school program for over a decade, but if I’m delivering academic programs, then I’m going to be looking at the number of students served. “We are serving X number of students right now.” And for a good reason.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

The exhibition is far from perfect, but it's a big step towards reflecting the "thriving, central gathering place" of our strategic vision. We experimented with many different forms of visitor participation throughout the building, trying to balance social and individual, text-based and artistic, cerebral and silly. A DIY wedding!

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

"[T]hose of us who take pictures, even for our own personal trips, and share those pictures with friends, because we have that skill, also have an obligation to help people understand each other more completely. Betty and six of her high school English students founded an organization called the Girl Child Network.

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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. Kind of like what brought you here, what skills and things like that? We do workshops on linking the issues, and connecting the war at home with the wars abroad, etc.,

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