Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you’re any type of arts organization , you can expand to online offerings at accessible price points. You can take art to the schools or bring students to your art. Once I had a few donations in hand, I had postcards printed with beautiful photos of the artists’ work. You can host accessible, off-site clinics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2018

Despite her lack of comfort using online tools, she was interested in anything that her children were involved with, even if it wasn’t her cup of tea. She took selfies with me and I taught her how she could use my phone to look at her children and grandchildren’s Facebook profiles. She was also an arts lover.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

, an exhibition produced with schoolchildren at the Wallace Collection in London, is a lovely example of co-creation that demonstrates the multiple benefits of inviting audience members to act as partners in arts organizations. They decided to ask children, and the project was born. Here are the basics.

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CauseVox

APRIL 12, 2022

For the past 25 years, Carousel Ranch has made it their mission to improve the lives of children and young adults through equestrian therapy and vocational training. Beginning with one client and one horse in a backyard, this organization has grown to a 10+ acre state-of-the-art therapy facility in Santa Clarita. – Cindy Chairez.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

It gives your audience a tangible transformation to observe through the sharing of the written word, photos, testimonials, and videos. You may include physical photos of the character or describe their appearance. Visual storytelling with photos and videos is extremely valuable when available.

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NetWits

MAY 31, 2012

Which means you need to master the art of the follow-up email. Malnourished children enduring intense suffering will finally get relief”- I clearly understood the impact of those thousands of gifts. But so many more starving children need help” – The attention quickly shifted back to the urgent need. So may your second.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While doing research, I found myself digging back into old arguments on museum listservs about photo policies and I want to add my two (very opinionated) cents on this. If people can take their own photos, they won't buy them in the gift shop. Aesthetics of Experience: Photo-taking is distracting for other visitors.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

This year, TMWL is raising funds that will support the work of 4 passionate women who truly believe that everyone has something to give: “ Mama Lucy &# Kamptoni sold chickens in her Tanzanian village & turned her income into a primary school that now serves over 400 children.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 5, 2010

The work they have done with Mama Lucy has been incredible and the school is now serving over 400 children. For Mother’s Day, Epic Change wants to help Mama Lucy realize another dream – to build a home on campus where in-need children will live. Just imagine. billion on Mother’s Day. billion on Mother’s Day.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2016

There, we see hearts, bodies, and minds coming to life through improvisation and the creative arts. Imagine children around the United States learning mindfulness. Then imagine how this teaching can impact children's lives, transforming their journey through life. Its photo story is extremely powerful and highly shareable.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

If you’re supporting the arts , you could expand online offerings at accessible price points. You could take art to the schools. Once I had a few donations in hand, I printed postcards with beautiful photos of the artists’ work. I needed to assign someone to make calls to supplement the art with other items.

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Qgiv

MAY 13, 2021

And one group of people that inspires others to give is children. Nonprofit in action: Snow City Arts took a virtual performance to the streets, offering a tour of some of Chicago’s most diverse and creative neighborhoods. You could also incorporate challenges that participants must submit photo or video proof of to complete.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 10, 2015

It''s for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it''s for engineers trying to solve a problem; it''s for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way. " ~Twyla Tharp, author of The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life Twenty plus years ago, I went through a graduate program to earn an M.A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

We promised the monk that we would hold Cambodia in our hearts and travel back with our children to their birth country when they were old enough to appreciate it. This post focuses on the work of several NGOs, most importantly, the Sharing Foundation , that cares for children in Cambodia. That time was earlier this month.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). Handwriting is quickly becoming a lost art form. Posting status updates and photos while backpacking through Central America or from a cafe in Paris is their normal mode of travel. The era of winging it in social media is over. 4) Read more books.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Give them a chance to inspire those women by supporting your cause — you can even showcase photos of the women in your supporters’ lives on social media for a certain donation tier or send out a special IWD card to the women your supporters are donating for. Art Show and Silent Auction. Have a Gala Where No One Shows Up (April 1).

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

It’s not enough to say you want to make sure children don’t go hungry. You want to provide X number of meals to X number of children for X amount of time. You can use really powerful messaging, photos, and videos to show the need and how your programs will meet that need, even if you haven’t gotten started yet.

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2016

PicsArt is a free photo editing app that gives anyone the tools to be creative. Overlaying Messages on Personal Photos. The organization took its stickers, made them digital, and had people "add" them over photos that show how they live a great story. Creating Art for Others. Visualizing the Hashtag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2011

Epic Change is inviting everyone to participate in an online collaborative art project to honor moms around the Globe. I created a heartspace using a photo of my mom and are dancing. She always encouraged me to participate in the arts. I created [.]

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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. People x (Food + Place) looked at photos taken by children in a park to understand what contributed to their sense of community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2010

Leveraging the emotional connection we feel with our own mothers or our own pride of being a mom, Epic Change is inviting donors to participate in an online collaborative art project to honor moms around the Globe. You are given the option to customize your "heartspace" with photos, video, poems and artwork.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

How One NGO Serves 70,000 Children. Speaking of impact, London, England-based Childreach International works in partnership with local communities in the developing world to help improve children’s access to healthcare, education, child rights, and protection. It has just 20 UK-based staff.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Now, we’re getting into the art of thanking donors. If you work with children, a child’s drawing is an obvious choice. If you work with animals, can you have a fashion photo shoot involving holiday sweaters? We loved getting texts from parents letting us know how proud their children were to return to school in brand new shoes.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

For the last time this summer, I'm sharing a chapter from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. He shows a big board of photos of FoodWhat youth at work. Before their teen years, children are sponges. Read more online and buy your own copy today. Hanging out. They go where adults tell them to go.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Make sure to advertise your artists and makers on your social media platforms leading up to the opening of your shop with photos and videos. Student art show. Give your artistic students the opportunity to show off their skills by hosting a virtual art show. Virtual tours for museums. Virtual college + career prep workshop.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 7, 2011

They have all kinds: cards that go in your printer, cards you can paint on with watercolors, photo frame cards, and "green" cards made of hemp, bamboo and recycled fiber. For inspiration, check out the book Good Mail Day: A Primer for Making Eye-Popping Postal Art , and its corresponding Good Mail Day Flickr group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Flickr Photo by elycelfeliz. Carol Dweck , a psychologist at Standford, has spent decades demonstrating that one of the crucial ingredients of successful education is the ability to learn from mistakes. “Unfortunately, children are often taught the exact opposite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2010

The lucky winner, Invisible Children, has won $1 million , but the Huffington Post is reporting that the second place winner, engaged in voter fraud. Invisible Children has also been accused of fraud during the duration of the contest. It's left some nonprofit professionals wondering whether these types of contests are a good idea.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Nasser Halteh of ZeroDivide , Kimberly Hedges of Americans for the Arts , and Alvaro Rojas from The Chronicle of Philanthropy all scored notebooks from Higher Logic. Sara Benzkofer of Minnesota Association for Children''s Mental Health walked away with a PIR notebook and pen set. Flickr photo credit: woodleywonderworks.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Everyone from engineers to sales representatives to our CEO Mike Gianoni got in on the fun, posting their favorite memories from arts and cultural organizations on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, using #showyourculture in their post so we could all follow along. Nonprofit News #showyourculture Arts & Cultural'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The Talkeetna Bachelor Society is a program of the Denali Arts Council, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. The Society’s fundraising activities benefit the Talkeetna Bachelor Society’s Fund for Women and Children in Crisis. Photo by Aliza Sherman. The Talkeetna Bachelor Society is a program of the Denali Arts Council, [.].

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

Our team was quite impressed with the quality of photos and videos submitted, and all the hard work that was put into each. Hearing what those children want to be when they grow up motivated me to share the story with as many people as possible so that they would be able to realize their dreams. " First Place Photo.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2007

From my Flickr Photos. In case you are wondering about the connection to the jars with labels - the one above is from a photo I took of an art installation several years ago that had hundreds of glass jars with labels and objects inside. I wish I had discovered it for my recent post about encouraging children to give.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Photo: Jim Harrison. GOH developed Hope Meadows, an intergenerational neighborhood that supports families adopting children out of foster care. These honorary grandparents have been integral in the lives of more than 100 vulnerable and often abused children who have found a safe and loving home at Hope Meadows over the past 15 years.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

I grew up professionally in the science and children's museum field, where touching is guaranteed and floor staff spend more time helping visitors learn and ensuring their personal safety than they do protecting the objects. Art, however, does not come to museums pre-hardened. The level of touching, especially of art, has increased.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

"Thursday was wonderful," says William Rames, an account management specialist at TechSoup, who spent four hours sorting donated art supplies at SCRAP (Scroungers Center for Reusable Art Parts), a nonprofit that diverts waste from landfills while making creative supplies available to teachers, parents, and community organizers.

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