Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Being new to the arts & cultural space (career-wise, not interest-wise), I’ve been doing a lot of reading to get a better understanding of this industry. While we’re not in this dire situation in the arts & cultural industry, I think there are things we can learn from the retailers who are thriving.

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Qgiv

JUNE 16, 2021

billion) 5% Arts, culture, and humanities ($21.64 Arts, Culture, and Humanities: 2018-2019: +11.3% Arts, Culture, and Humanities: 2018-2019: +11.3% The post Giving USA 2021 Report: Charitable Giving Trends appeared first on Qgiv Blog. Breakdown of $471.44 28% Religion ($131.08 Religion 2018-2019: +3.6%

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2014

As always, I read this article through the lens of our arts and cultural customers. Are the same trends applicable? As a result, I put together my perspective on this game changing technology for arts and cultural organizations. What other trends are you seeing in arts and cultural technology for 2014?

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 25, 2021

In fact, giving predictions continue to follow an increasing trend across the next five years. The nine categories are religion; education; human services; giving to foundations; health; public-society benefit; arts, culture and humanities; international affairs; and environment and animals.” – U.S. Giving Report.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Generating content : Suppose you’re writing a grant proposal for an arts organization and want to explain why the arts are essential for youth development. Giving ChatGPT the prompt “Tell me why arts are important for youth development” generates two pages of text. 2013)… …and so on. 2013; Upitis et al.,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The data from GivingTuesday comes from their 2019 GivingTuesday Impact Report and the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report data is based on the survey responses of 2,263 GivingTuesday 2019 donors. From the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report : 2) 9% of donors worldwide donated to a nonprofit, NGO, or charity on GivingTuesday 2019.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 23, 2023

DALLE , an image generation tool, Vision, an AI-driven image analysis tool, and Advanced Data Analysis provides the ability to upload a CSV file for AI to identify trends, create graphs, and generate reports. 2) Master the Art of Prompting Prompting is the language we use to communicate with Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Arts and cultural organizations are the sources of some of our favorite DipJar stories. Today’s story comes from the small but mighty state of Rhode Island, where The Gamm Theatre has been providing great cultural programming for almost 40 years. Arts, culture, and performance are all personal passions for her.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Arts and Cultural organizations are capitalizing on this giving movement by creating a clear call-to-action attached to customized campaigns. Resources: Blackbaud’s Giving Tuesday site has a whole host of resources to help you be successful such as the toolkit, a webinar series, podcasts, blog articles and giving trends data.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Kellogg Foundation This resource helps answer a key question on many leaders’ minds: How can leaders and companies create a culture that embodies a feeling of inclusion and a sense of belonging for all employees? Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 28, 2016

Knowing that those three days are so jam-packed with content, I often get asked what bbcon offers for arts administrators, and the answer is…a lot! So I went ahead and picked out some of the top sessions for Arts & Cultural organization to make planning your conference journey just a little bit easier.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In this session, Laura MacDonald, Chair of the Giving USA Foundation and Founder of Benefactor Group, will discuss data and trends from 2020, a year in which the environment for giving was certainly uncommon. Each year, the nonprofit sector receives extensive data describing philanthropy in the United States. billion capital campaign.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

To borrow from the song: “Art is a many splendored thing.” Art is also very subjective. Again borrowing: “One man’s trash is another man’s art.” So, what is the value of art? Recently, I attended a conference on arts education. Difficult to objectify and quantify. Math doesn’t have to be justified.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Facebook aka Meta, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat and TikTok have become integrated into how people communicate with one another and access culture. Art Fund “See Everything”. In 2016 UK charity Art Fund harnessed the power of video to create the successful campaign “See Everything”. METTWINNING.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2013

How can arts and cultural organizations start leveraging content marketing? There are 5 steps to start a content marketing program at your arts and cultural organization. This is one of the places where arts and cultural organizations have an advantage because they have ticket sales data. Absolutely!

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Every arts and culture organization has a brand and that brand has a purpose. For arts and culture organizations, brand purpose is often about facilitating learning and engaging visitors in unforgettable experiences that provide educational and social value. Why does your museum open its doors each day?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 23, 2012

Despite Challenges, Arts Organizations Remain Optimistic. And it gets particularly interesting when you start looking at the responses from arts, culture, and humanities groups. Are arts organizations just optimistic or do these results foretell a trend? State Grants Still Go to Arts and Humanities.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2019

Looking to the present and the future, here are four big trends to take notice of to ensure the ongoing success of your membership operation. This is sure to accelerate the trend towards unionization and overall salary equality. Offering your members digital cards is just one way to stay on top of these mobile consumer trends.

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Candid

MAY 14, 2021

Giving Data & Trends (38 pages, PDF), found that the growth in overall revenue was driven in part by small donors (between $101 and $500 in total 2020 giving) and “supersize” donors (at least $50,001 in giving), who gave 5.8 percent for arts, culture, and humanities organizations.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2014

Using data from The Blackbaud Index , we are able to provide the first insights into fundraising trends for the first six months of 2014 compared to 2013. The Blackbaud Charitable Giving Report provides insights into fundraising trends on an annual basis. Overall Giving Trends. Online Giving Trends. Yeah, we were too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Note from Beth: I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion in October at the recent Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson where I learned about some of the preliminary study result he discovered. Arts organizations are not alone in this. The question. What we learned: a snapshot.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

One challenge I hear frequently is how to keep up with technology trends without leaving less-savvy demographics behind. Integrated Marketing Arts & Cultural Membership online ticketing ticketing' Note: I use the term “patron” and “visitor” interchangeably in this post. The top 4 challenges in modern era guest services.

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

Organized by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA) , this year’s 28th annual awards includes over 6,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. Distinction – Website for Art. Truman Scholarship Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Marc van Bree and I were chatting about some of the collaborative arts marketing strategies that some arts organizations have experimented with on Twitter. Since there have been a few examples, I asked Marc if would write a post looking at some of these. What was the objective? What do you have in store for the future?

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

This is a time of accessible AI—anyone with an internet connection can use state-of-the-art tools to help with tasks like brainstorming ideas, generating art, and drafting documents. Additionally, there is a risk that language AI systems can misunderstand special vocabulary or cultural language.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Designed to assist and support an organization (and most commonly hospitals, museums, libraries, and arts organizations), these groups historically focus on raising funds, sometimes manage the volunteer corps, and nearly always maintain their own governance system. Mapping the Change.

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sgEngage

MAY 1, 2013

Overall Fundraising Trends. The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving is a broad-based fundraising index that reports total revenue trends of 3,200 nonprofit organizations representing over $10 billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online. This is the first negative trend in 6 months.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This week, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released a new paper by Holly Sidford called Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change. We may say that we want to support programming and cultural opportunities for low-income and non-white people, but that's not where the money is going. The title may sound innocuous.

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sgEngage

JULY 18, 2023

Know Your Audience You’ll find that you have a unique community on each of your social media platforms based on the demographics they draw and the culture they foster. Are you an art museum that posts behind-the-scenes looks at your collection on Instagram?

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sgEngage

AUGUST 7, 2012

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. Overall Fundraising Trends. Online Fundraising Trends.

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Setting Up the Event Night Program Crafting a seamless and engaging event program is an art, and the Entertainment & Program Chair is the mastermind behind it. The Entertainment & Program Chair, with their finger on the cultural and entertainment trends, ensures that the event resonates with the attendees.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. Overall Fundraising Trends. Online Fundraising Trends. million in yearly revenue on a monthly basis.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 30, 2013

Jim Hackney with Alexander Haas shares his perspective on giving in the arts and culture sector. Research & Trends Arts & Cultural donor retention fundraising npVOICES overhead retention' In this episode… - Jacob Harold with GuideStar discusses the “Overhead Myth” initiative.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2017

Released under the Blackbaud Institute for Philanthropic Impact, the report analyzes trends from more than $23 billion in fundraising revenue from 2016. According to the report, overall giving to K through 12 education and arts and culture sectors grew the most in 2016. GivingTuesday online donations were up 20 percent in 2016.

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sgEngage

JULY 5, 2012

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. Overall Fundraising Trends. Online Fundraising Trends.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving and The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving provide fundraisers with up-to-date data on fundraising trends and to couple that information with valuable analysis by leaders in the sector. Overall Fundraising Trends. Online Fundraising Trends.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2012

There are two important caveats to the trends. These trends are important to see in the last quarter when a very significant amount of online giving happens. Overall Fundraising Trends. Online Fundraising Trends. He also noted that while giving is up, the increase is not uniform across all sub-sectors.

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