Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Community Brands recently shared donor retention data that reinforced alarming trends that the nonprofit sector has been monitoring for a while. These are based on proven principles of the art and science of fundraising, innovative strategies, and best practices. Acknowledge and thank donors swiftly and enthusiastically.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 26, 2022

Let’s take the example of an arts organization: Is there a gap they can fill that drives support? Maybe a local school district cut its arts programs due to a lack of funding. They could execute a small campaign to support that school district by offering arts education opportunities. Technology has made this so much easier.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In such a case, you may have trouble really inspiring board, volunteers and community members to commit to your mission with passion. 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. Your donors?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OSS User communities December 12, 2006 One of the things that can make (or break) an open source tool is the community around it. It’s definitely worth a read.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). These arrangements are starting-off points; they don’t originate from any definitive recording or performance.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 26, 2022

Let’s take the example of an arts organization: Is there a gap they can fill that drives support? Maybe a local school district cut its arts programs due to a lack of funding. They could execute a small campaign to support that school district by offering arts education opportunities. Technology has made this so much easier.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Neither does linking to desktop sites inside smartphone apps, in group text alerts, or on location-based communities like Foursquare and Gowalla. Well, early adoption of the Mobile is not expensive and text-to-give should definitely not be a nonprofit’s entry point into mobile technology. Concern Worldwide :: m.concern.net.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2016

The result is a new book, The Art of Relevance , coming out in a few weeks. It's anchored in a clear, research-based definition of relevance that has changed the way I see the world and the way I approach community engagement. This post is an invitation for those of you who want to help it come alive in your own community.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

In Philadelphia, many polling places are difficult to find, hidden deep in the recesses of schools, churches, and community centers. NSD) aimed to improve the voting experience and increase civic engagement using public art. The artists who participated felt a greater sense of connection to their communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2009

As someone who spent half her career working for and with arts organizations this news makes me sad: A report yesterday from the USAToday that quotes Bob Lynch , the President of Americans for the Arts estimating that 10,000 arts organizations will close this year, 10% of the total number.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Working with trusted community partners with deep history and expertise on grantmaking for racial equity, we responded this month by updating our special issue site on funding for racial equity. Updating our definition of racial equity to a changing world . arts, education, health) or use any number of approaches (e.g.,

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. Here's what I think is really strong about the report: Coordinated, succinct research findings supporting the rise of active arts engagement.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to support the NTEN Community Challenge , which enhanced NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships. What is your organization''s mission?

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CauseVox

AUGUST 10, 2021

Without a nonprofit background, many founders can struggle for years to activate a community and fund their mission—and worse, many give up before they truly begin. Join us for two hour-long sessions to learn what it takes to get your mission launched so you stop dreaming and can begin making an impact on your community! ” FAQ.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2021

But if you’re still on the fence about whether or not to join us for the nonprofit event of the year on April 21, we put together a list of the top seven reasons why you should absolutely, definitely be there. Mary Nemerov, Chief Philanthropy Officer, California Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 17, 2012

grantseeking efforts of organizations focused on community. In a recent survey of nonprofit organizations in the United States, we learned more about where these types of nonprofits get their funding and where they find challenges to meeting the needs of their communities. Current economic conditions present specific challenges to the.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2015

Close your eyes and imagine your organization's "community." Communities are made of people, not rhetoric. You can define a community by the shared attributes of the people in it, and/or by the strength of the connections among them. The second is a quality of the community (strong vs. weak) as defined.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

My #GivingTuesday #unselfie goes to @LBPLFoundation because libraries are still critical to literacy in our community pic.twitter.com/ZC1N49U6Mp — Kate (@KAzarPD). We definitely get back more than we give"- a #littlebit volunteer #unselfie @GivingTues https://t.co/jszw8r6dDk November 29, 2016. He really barfed in my shoe.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Storytelling is an art and a science, and this conference is a valuable opportunity to share ideas with your fellow fundraisers. This is definitely a conference for the data-focused fundraiser. The theme for the 2023 DonorPerfect Community Conference is “Refresh” because sometimes that’s what fundraisers have no choice but to do.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

What''s the best way to get formal input from diverse community members? I''ve mostly seen museums employ one of two methods for formal community advisors: Create special "spots" on the board of trustees for certain kinds of community representatives. PRO: gets diverse community members in positions of real authority.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Conducting research to find grants and funding opportunities is definitely the place to start if you want to be successful at getting grants and separating yourself from the strugglers. This group of 400+ organizations – libraries, community foundations, and other nonprofit resource centers – offer you a way to access it from their location.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

We want you to learn to master the art and science of fundraising so you can raise the money you need, whenever you need it. If something should happen and you no longer have the financial ability to back your nonprofit, you run the risk of losing it due to lack of community support. But we want something much better for you!

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Candid

MAY 20, 2021

For example, performing arts organizations needed to immediately pause their campaigns back in early 2020. But this is not the only definition of a capital campaign. For organizations in desperate need to grow their capacity in order to meet increased need in their communities, this flexibility is invaluable.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Oakland Local is a news & community site for Oakland, CA, USA, focusing on social justice issues including climate change, air quality, food access, arts as activists, and identity, race & ethnicity. I’ll be watching Oakland Local to see how it evolves and grows and how the community reacts and uses it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

In 1992, I discovered the Internet, Well, and was hired by the New York Foundation of the Arts to be the Network Weaver for a network for artists, Arts Wire. In 1992, I discovered the Internet, Well, and was hired by the New York Foundation of the Arts to be the Network Weaver for a network for artists, Arts Wire.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. Definitely a trend to keep your eyes on as Internet TV begins to penetrate our living rooms in coming years. Instagram :: instagr.am.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Scene: a regional workshop on arts engagement. A funder is speaking with conviction about the fact that her foundation is focusing their arts grantmaking strategy on engagement. Engaging people actively in the arts. But just as its definition suggests, quality is itself a quality. No arts experience hits them all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I've learned about working wikily through working on NTEN's WeAreMedia wiki - not so much the content, but the community curriculum development and knowledge sharing process. But the short definition is: "A critical friend is someone who is independent of the project who asks.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Heroes emerge, who recognize that a strong grants management function leads to a funder’s ability to operate more equitably, with nimble practices rightsized and appropriate to the nonprofits and communities it seeks to support. The Art of Managing, Rather Than Mitigating Risk. Conquering the Myth of Risk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

In two weeks, several hundred arts leaders from around the country will gather on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University to discuss the role of technology in the arts field at the Technology in the Arts Conference. Tell me a little bit about how you got into arts management? Was that your progression? Actually, I???m

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Essence of knowledge After more than two decades in the knowledge field—located at various times in community program evaluation, academia and philanthropy—I have come to the conclusion that our biggest problem in maximizing knowledge work is that we too often conflate knowledge with learning.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. An online database of what is #trending on Twitter with user-generated definitions of related hashtags. Instagram :: instagr.am.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

The estimates below allow for the time required to research and create content for your social media campaigns, the actual time spent engaging and participating in your nonprofit’s online communities, and the time necessary to monitor and report ROI. Ning allows nonprofits to launch their own social networking communities.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 11, 2022

A good brand and recognition in the community. Interest in supporting the community. Materials You Need to Recruit Corporate Sponsors Finding sponsors requires a little art and a little science. Finally, look around the community for companies that have a mission that’s in alignment with yours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. Tagging communities or unbounded networks that might come to life around a tag are not new.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2021

Arts, culture, and humanities fell 7.5% (-8.6% The effects of the pandemic and the ensuing economic shock disproportionately affected households such that some may have had greater capacity to give charitably than households and communities that struggled financially. . Health organizations fell 3% (-4.2%

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