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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

.orgSource

Clowns, acrobats, and trapeze artists entertain. The platform removes burdensome activities, provides an ongoing learning and assessment process, and continues to offer the public a reliable marker of trust. Uncontested space is the gift of Blue Ocean Strategy. The authors use Cirque du Soleil to illustrate this idea.

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Amazing AI Images for Impact: AI Generators for Nonprofits

Whole Whale

Imagine if you didn’t need an expensive camera, artistic mastery, or a ton of time to create what was in your mind’s eye. Note the clear language to identify the object, the action, the background or context, and then most importantly the artistic style that the output should create. Public link: [link]. Public image: [link].

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Steven Tyler’s Janie’s Fund Releases Autographed Designer Tees To Raise Funds

NonProfit PRO

Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler and his philanthropic initiative, Janie’s Fund, teamed up with apparel company Citizen-T and artist Brian Fox to develop upcycled designer tees, personally signed by the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame singer, to benefit charity.

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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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Who is an Artist? On Naming and Expertise

Museum 2.0

I noticed this conversation because it happened during a break at a two-day meeting where people heatedly debated the question of who is an artist. What does it mean when someone says she is a hiker, or a scientist, or an artist? Last week, I heard a curator advocate strongly for the "everyone is an artist" frame of thinking.

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Guest Post by Rebecca Krause: How Can Artists Inspire Service in Community?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.  I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts for 12 years on a range of arts and technology programs, including a network for artists called Arts Wire.   There were artists who had studio spaces in the buildings - lives were lost as well as complete life's work. Three Things Artists Can Do. Tell stories.

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Curtis Memorial Library: A Tradition of Local Support

DipJar

Public libraries are some of our favorites. They’re one of the only public spaces open to everyone and where pretty much everything is free. Not a librarian by training, she started her career in public relations before moving into nonprofits. At DipJar, we love our customers. They’re so much more than book museums.

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