Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Some of my best childhood memories are from going to public grade school. Writing and illustrating stories about my gerbils, Floppsey and Moppsey, and reading them to the class. Making friends was hard, but learning was fun. Bronson and Merryman also reported that, "A recent IBM poll of 1,500 CEOs identified creativity as the No.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 26, 2013

Before graduating he was accepted to Teach for America and has been placed at a nonprofit preschool that provides early childhood education to low income families in Los Angeles. While working for Teach for America, Alex will be pursuing his master of arts degree in early childhood education at Loyola Marymount University.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

“Map out the story you need to tell. Birgit interviewed Misty on the challenges she faced throughout her childhood, and her journey to become the first African American Female Principal Dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. Emily and Joe recommend to begin with planning before you ever look at your data.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

They were off-site for the first time in years, holding a special study session sparked by an exhibition about foster youth, Lost Childhoods. Then, for an hour, former foster youth who helped design the exhibition shared their stories with supervisors. It happened because two of our Lost Childhood partners urged it into being.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

He shares a story. He creates a visual representation of his story. Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Some of the stories were quickies, but others were powerful and personal. A man walks into a museum.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2011

Disclaimer Wednesday, March 16, 2011 How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man posted by Michael Soto , 2nd Year Fellow – Public Allies Arizona / Arizona Citizens for the Arts Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to serve my country. My mother served her country by joining the Army at the age of 18.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. And to cut to the end of the story first, yes, we are creating a project together, yes, you can participate, and yes to whatever other questions this brings up in your head. To recreate childhood photographs.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Sheroes in the Arts. Are you inspired by women in the arts? Thought Leaders.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

The common museum knowledge on this issue is that adults are timid, that we have lost some of the wonder, impulsiveness, and active creativity of childhood days. We've been trying to actively combat this at The Museum of Art & History (MAH) in Santa Cruz. Share your story with other visitors.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

I make art, specifically collages, and am a big fan of sending and receiving written letters, which I think is a lost art. For example, I recently put on a Human Library event where participants were able to “check out” people with specific stories and learn more about their lived experience.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2018

Louie’s Kids is a nonprofit that fights childhood obesity and promotes family wellness. . Tell a story in your appeals. Capitalize on this by using images to tell your story and evoke the donors’ emotions. Keep amounts and explanations simple and use examples. Below is an example of a two-sided donation card.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Now we have smartphones, whose data, when strung together forms the story of our lives. I can’t remember when I first heard, our identity is the story we repeat to ourselves. Our Stories. Today we have a wild abundance to the ways we collect our stories. What emerges is a story – your story. Sections matter.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

The art of writing letters, and writing in general, has fallen by the way­side. Our distaste for writing followed us into adulthood because we still suffer from the same writing inadequacies we had in childhood. Case Study: The lost art of writing. Writing is an art people can do well if they practice. Tactics and Tips.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2007

I heard Frank Warren speak at the American Visionary Art Museum. In 2004, for DC’s Art-o-Matic community show, he initiated an experiment called PostSecret. Each secret can be a regret, hope, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, feeling, confession, or childhood humiliation.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Simply adding a line like, “Subscribe to our newsletter for stories, event invitations, and exciting updates” can make a huge difference! Instead of including full-length stories or articles, include quotes, excerpts, or summaries in your newsletter. Are you sharing a story about a client who benefitted from your work?

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Audience segmentation—the art (and, really, science) of subdividing audiences into distinct groups—is much easier if you have a nonprofit donor management software like Neon CRM to store, analyze, and act on your audience data. Here’s an example: September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month while October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 18, 2017

This month, we opened a new exhibition at the MAH, Lost Childhoods: Voices of Santa Cruz County Foster Youth and Foster Youth Museum (brief video clip from opening night here ). it uses art, history, artifacts, and storytelling to illuminate a big human story and an urgent social issue. What's your take on this approach?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Things which seemed universal to me as a boy were in fact very culturally specific to my childhood in southern England and wouldn’t have had any resonance even twenty miles across the English channel in France where their Noël celebrations differ widely. I didn’t realize as a child how traditions vary across the Christian world.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Check with your local colleges, art or craft supply stores, artisans, and local companies to learn about other crafting possibilities. Ask everyone to submit a fun story or tidbit about something from their childhood. You can fold that flat rate into the cost of the event. You don’t have to limit lessons to painting, either.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2008

For example, this image explains why The Tide is High was included: There are over 400 different tags used to relate songs in the Music Genome Project, ranging from “brisk swing feel” to “lyrics that tell a story” to “sparse tenor sax solo.” The Music Genome Project involves visitors' submissions in a limited way.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

Noëlla Coursaris Musunka: Malaika emerged out of my own personal story. I had a tough childhood there, but I was able to go to school and worked hard for the education my mother had given me the opportunity to get. I was born in the Democratic Republic of Congo and at the age of five my father passed away suddenly.

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