Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2018

At the same time, many in the group, the Leap Ambassadors Community , were passionate about meeting the needs of small nonprofits, such as youth development programs, environmental programs, churches, arts programs, and others. Handling those challenges meant that they also needed to address other pillars.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Student art show. Give your artistic students the opportunity to show off their skills by hosting a virtual art show. Create an online exhibition to showcase impressive art pieces your burgeoning young artists have created. Have them set up individual fundraising pages and upload videos of them attempting the challenges.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

We have witnessed and experienced incredible moments of transformation: homeless people and history buffs working together on historic restoration, graffiti artists and knitters collaborating on new artistic projects, visitors from different backgrounds making collages, or sculptures, or dance performances together.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Funding for domestic violence, homelessness, aging, child welfare, and mental health services have all been cut substantially. General funding for the arts has been entirely eliminated. Taking a position different from some mainstream businesses interests (sometimes a funder) may be challenging. Yes, democracy is messy.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2011

Yesterday, I had lunch with Monica Martinez, the ED of Homeless Services for Santa Cruz county. I was amazed not only by her energy and intelligence but by her simple, transformative goal: to end homelessness. Monica is trying to reposition her organization as a social justice organization working on solutions to end homelessness.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. The San Lorenzo Levee group used movement of homeless people as an indicator of social disruption. It strengthens your community.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Perhaps it’s a program grant to cover costs of running your homelessness program. When you use one of these, focus on using keywords or key phrases that include the type of thing or program you’re wanting to fund (art, horses, mentoring programs, etc.) Get clear on the type of funding you are seeking.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2017

Founded in 1999, Corazon Ministries is a faith-based charity that operates in the heart of downtown San Antonio, serving its homeless and marginalized neighbors. It also provides access to primary medical care, optometry and dermatology care, haircuts, art therapy, and recovery services. I learn new and wonderful things every day!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 23, 2012

Nonprofits fight poverty, provide great venues for art and music, challenge homelessness, help organize civic life, promote the common good and a host of other functions that puts human community and the common good before profits and a narrow band of investors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 4, 2017

As in my previous blog about the Top 3 Measures of Financial Health , I will use the example of a small performing arts center, the Drama Queen (DQ) Theatre, to help illustrate these ideas. In these times of unprecedented disruption, what are some of the challenges that affect (even the smartest) nonprofit business models?

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do you want to feed the homeless or cure cancer? Give books to needy children or build a performing arts center? It has always bothered me that nonprofits are measured in dollars and cents, and that we’re all lumped into the same pot. We paint “nonprofits” in broad strokes.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

Communicate what challenges your character is facing or has faced that led them to your organization. Hospice and homelessness can both be taboo subjects that can make people uncomfortable. Julia began sending him cards and art in return. Step 3: Communicate the conflict, goals, and successes. The two formed a special bond.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. This year was a year of building, challenging, and strengthening. We''ve gotten pretty good at doing this at museum programs, but it gets more complicated when we are working with a bonded group like a homeless center or a school tour.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. It’s been a wild and wonderful year—without question, my most challenging and stimulating yet. I look forward to more strategic partnerships that support community development broadly in our county.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Through the programs we have launched, we have found that by building trusted partnerships between small businesses, the government, community-based organizations, and residents, we are able to find solutions that address San Francisco’s most persistent and entrenched challenges. The Impact of Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

After 34 years in the Navy, Rick Koca "retired" - and started StandUp For Kids (S4K) , a nonprofit that works with homeless and street kids. She grew her program so it now serves 700 people of varying abilities and allows them to express themselves through the art. She lives for what she does and adds meaning to many individuals lives.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Yes to partnerships with the Second Harvest Food Bank and the Homeless Service Center. The challenge, then, is to figure out how to say yes consistently, smartly, over the long term. I end up having to call and say we're going to wait until the spring to make something happen. And then I feel like a jerk. I love saying yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." " What do you think? Does this resonate for you? Blackbaud, Inc. Official press release here.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Or, "Please give this family a place to stay for the night; and why dont you see if you can eliminate homelessness in the meantime?" The report details the challenges and perspectives of nonprofit CEOs in an elegant blend of statistical findings and personal voices. Everyone that works with a nonprofit CEO should read this report.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

The article references connecting with young people via social media, at-risk youth via exhibit co-creation, and urban creatives via public art installations. In most cases, they are less flashy than those covered in the CS Monitor, but that doesn't diminish their utility (or the challenges inherent in making them happen).

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Through stories, I have learned about the black struggle, what it’s like to grow up as queer in the American south, and the challenges of getting around the average American city in a wheelchair. This article features commentary about how we can best represent disability in the arts. What does he mean by incidental?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 16, 2023

After all, you need people and places to offer programs—it would be challenging for a nonprofit arts organization to have a pottery class without a studio and instructor. Understanding Indirect Costs for Nonprofits. A nonprofit operating a soup kitchen is not so lucky.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 16, 2023

After all, you need people and places to offer programs—it would be challenging for a nonprofit arts organization to have a pottery class without a studio and instructor. A nonprofit operating a soup kitchen is not so lucky. Calculating indirect costs is helpful for various reasons, ranging from budgeting to fundraising.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

John Center for Homeless Men recently did their own virtual house party peer-to-peer event called Raisin’ the Rent , with some of their participants raising over $10,000 in their house party. For instance, fundraisers can post on social media that if they raise $100 they’ll do the fire ramen challenge.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Sheroes in the Arts. She challenged many contemporary notions by taking on familiar biblical stories but retelling them through the female experience, and was met with contempt and even violence. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art. Thought Leaders.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

Leslie Neal | ArtSpring | Arts for Incarcerated Women | Homestead, FL ArtSpring uses educational arts programming for developing self-growth and effective life skills for incarcerated women, men and youth. Twitter: @clarkfork ) 10. Twitter: @youthambassador ) 12. Twitter: @americasvoice ) 20.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we''re approaching this challenge through a different lens: social bridging. Family Art Workshops" suffer from anemic participation whereas multi-generational festivals are overrun with families. Museum of Art and History programs social bridging'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

I gave a keynote about the Human Side of Data for Good and facilitated a mini-innovation lab to brainstorm creative ideas around the challenge of communicating about the value of shared data and becoming the community knowledge center for shared data for donors, nonprofits, and other stakeholders. kanter #DELC2014 pic.twitter.com/LniRwLJ2ey.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution.

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Alternately, if you can foresee circumstances where you would want to support crisis calls, homeless intake, elderly services, disaster relief, and other family service programs (through your own offices or through partner agencies), then you are looking for a software solution that is designed to support multi-purpose, multi-partner use.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

These challenges are combining to make it harder to find new donors and track their interactions across channels. But, without proper data hygiene practices, you’ll potentially face the challenge of dealing with inaccurate, outdated, or missing data, all of which can slow down your strategy. So, what can you do?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2015

Nonprofits might also have access to data that others do not (such as numbers surrounding homelessness, food donations etc.). A picture, a joke, an infographic, a meme, a video, a song--all of that constitutes content. Your goal should be to provide something that appeals to a variety of senses. Do an Exciting Project.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

With so many technological solutions and platforms, nonprofits are challenged not only in determining which solutions are right for them, but how to manage everything effectively, with limited budgets and resources. Marcy Heim, The Artful Asker. Hitting It Out of the Park—Learn the Art of Major Gift Relationship Building.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So I’m sure that all of you are saying, “Yes, that’s exactly why we’re here,” but the challenge becomes when we are working so hard to make a difference in the lives around us, a lot of times we just don’t, you know, know what we should be tracking or how we should be reporting. Ask “So what?”

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

So what are some of the challenges that I’ve seen? And I think that what is a challenge is that given that many people are working virtually is that you don’t work the traditional hours. So they provide emergency and longer-term, permanent supportive housing to individuals who are experiencing homelessness.

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