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Exceptional Digital Experiences for Museums and Cultural Institutions

Forum One

Forum One worked on the Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal to make more than 400,000 pages of volunteer-transcribed records and previously-unavailable data sets accessible for anyone to search.

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Find the Charlie’s, Justine’s, and Edna’s in your network

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

“Does” is any action – post, like, share, mobile photo,create – expressed via a social voice. Enabling expression of the social voice will raise more$$$ than a direct donation. Charlie the Artist. People searching for the phrase find this shirt, and also find Justine. He was asked to donate to cancer charity.

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Serving The LGBTQ+ Community

Bloomerang

Grant Research Tip : As you search for funding opportunities, keep an eye on the grant application deadlines. Sign up for “The Grant Hunt Simplified” to learn the best way to search for grants and to receive this free template, as well as many others that are crucial to your grant research success. Areas served: Vermont.

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Guest Post by Chad Norman: 5 Nonprofit Storytelling Lessons from a Master of Hip-Hop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These artists are all great examples of how media can be used for social change - as a vehicle for storytelling. This is just one style, out of many" Despite Kurt Vonnegut being my favorite author, I still search for opposing styles from other writers. Tell a good story, but don't forget to bring in new voices.

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Lead or Follow: Arts Administrators Hash it Out

Museum 2.0

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more?

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Can Public Art Increase Civic Participation?

Connection Cafe

Over the course of our 24-week voter engagement campaign, NSD hired 60 artists to create 60 “Vote Here/Vote Aqui” signs. The artists came from more than 20 different Philadelphia neighborhoods. Involve Artists from the Very Beginning. The artists who participated felt a greater sense of connection to their communities.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. What Should Artists and Arts Organization???s

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