Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2013

And we each have specific interests in increasing access, connection, and empowerment of marginalized people. Meanwhile, arts industry leaders worry about " oversupply " of organizations in the face of dwindling demand. Arts organizations can operate on their own timelines and internal values. We all work for nonprofits.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As the art critic John Berger said in his book Ways of Seeing , “We only see what we look at. A way that can be more fair, improve the institution of philanthropy, and deliver a shared and flexible understanding of impact. To look is an act of choice.” Indeed, if we commit to shifting power, we need to see and understand things differently.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 15, 2023

Life-changing Initiatives: From providing health services in underserved communities to fostering the arts and promoting environmental conservation, nonprofits touch every facet of our lives. Digital Empowerment: Utilizing social media, cloud solutions, and analytics tools to drive engagement and efficiency.

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Celebrate National Change Nonprofit 52

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

The first shift of volunteers arrived on site at 7:00 am and we were given an orientation and an overview about how computer refurbishing can be an economic empowerment tool for the homeless and save the environment. The Art of Story Capture I focused on shadowing Mark and Shawn and asked them questions about their practice of story capture.

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Service Story Arts NTC 66

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

While touring the island, listening to my pleasant audio guide chattering away on my headphones, I learned of a constituent empowerment campaign from long ago. His scathing editorials demanded that America step up and provide a home for such a beautiful work of art. We also went out to Liberty Island to see the Statue of Liberty.

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Empowerment Madagascar New York City New York 23

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Mission: To help eradicate extreme poverty through community development projects in urban sanitation, water filtration, health, alternative energy, and economic empowerment. Mission: To foster peace among young adults through the arts in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina. Kijani ● kijani.ngo. Project 1948 Foundation ● project1948.ngo.

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Qgiv

MARCH 1, 2023

The timely theme honors women in every community who have devoted their lives and talents to producing art, pursuing truth, and reflecting the human condition decade after decade.” Their grantees come from all over the world and the fund partners with organizations thematically with a current focus on economic empowerment.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Her experience includes 8+ years of Marketing, Communication, and Program Management for organizations working on issues such as poverty, financial literacy, voter engagement, health research, and the public arts. Internal communications can be your organization’s greatest asset or greatest liability,” said Selby.

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Causes Consultant Empowerment Storytelling 92

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change isn''t an art club or a history group. It''s about empowerment and community leadership through art and history.

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Teen Change Museum History 45

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. One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" Read more online and buy your own copy today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Some wisdom from DC Nonprofits: JoesMovement : Joe’s Movement Emporium is the community performing arts center of World Arts Focus, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that was launched in 1992. 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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Washington Training Train Giving 97

Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

Art and Media. The Media and Training Centre for Health specializes in the design and development of community learning models that promote health and empowerment in marginalized communities. The goal of these case studies is to raise awareness of the impact these nonprofits are making in South Africa. Children and Education.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The mission of the Kentucky Foundation for Women is to promote positive social change by supporting varied feminist expression in the arts. Their Art Meets Activism grant supports feminist artists and organizations in Kentucky to engage individuals and communities in artmaking that directly advances positive social change.

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Empowerment Grant Fund Resource 81

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants July 27, 2008 This week, it is my pleasure to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. And, since I’m the host, I get to add a couple of bonus mistakes.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

The mission of the Kentucky Foundation for Women is to promote positive social change by supporting varied feminist expression in the arts. Their Art Meets Activism grant supports feminist artists and organizations in Kentucky to engage individuals and communities in artmaking that directly advances positive social change.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. Let’s start with empowerment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Hundreds of unique, hand-made art postcards, containing words of compassion and solidarity are hand delivered to individuals and communities all over the world, bringing connection, hope, visibility and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence or repression. Each card is a piece of art in my mind.

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NPTECH Punk June 19, 2008 Beth, of course, suggested this , and I’m jumping on her bandwagon. I realized, in being introduced to Edupunk , that I have been doing it for, oh, almost 20 years now.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The First Wave includes 6 museums, 5 performing arts organizations, 3 public libraries, 3 parks, and 3 community centers. We selected a First Wave that reflects diversity of geography, size, and sector, so we can see who this works best for and why. Half are led by people of color or indigenous people.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

Let's say your organization has a mission to increase X (art, healthy kids, clean water, community cohesiveness, etc.). On the other hand, in onstage mode, we could present more highly visible opportunities for people to be empowered and connected through art and history.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

She has worked as senior staff and consultant for companies and non-profits advancing health issues, empowerment of women and youth, the arts, and international development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment. The program is called Tech2Empower and you can learn more about it here.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

We've seen the potential for simple, community empowerment focused solutions to have a tremendous impact on some of the world's most pressing health and sustainability issues. Mike Snyder, the videographer for the Water School, was available online to accept the award. View their Flickr set. For Best Video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I liked the feeling of empowerment and how it can shift you out of your usual way of thinking. The peer coaching exercise allowed participants to work in small groups of three people and take turns being the talker, listener, and witness. Londell facilitated this exercise and I was delighted to experience it as a participant.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2020

In reimagining these events, we must take care to harness the feelings of empowerment, of recognition, and of community that are so cherished about non-competitive events, not only on “event day”, but all season long. By removing the ability to have a walk in its traditional sense, we lose the pinnacle of the event season.

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Virtual Cancer Childhood Contest 33

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Abigail Echo-Hawk on the art and science of ‘decolonizing data’ Allison Bauer Discusses Philanthropy Today & Nonprofit Support. Critiques of Philanthropy Are Important, but Some Have Entered the Realm of the Absurd. Reflections on a Conference for Well-Intentioned Funders: We can do better.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. Our topics are broad, including Creative Spaces, Youth Empowerment, and Economic Opportunity. Youth Advisory vs.) as opposed to an intercultural approach. I struggle with both these options.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. I''ve gotten more comfortable and more confident with the idea of the museum as political body that advocates for empowerment and social bridging. Empowerment? When we really live our mission, that''s where it takes us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Reflections. Being a “Guide on the Side&# versus “Sage on the Stage&# produces richer, more engaging peer learning.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

And in several cases, the projects constituted "empowerment lite" for participants rather than true collaboration, co-creation, or transformation. Interestingly--for good and ill--this transformative funding program coincided with a national funding crisis in the arts in the UK. This made the work more urgent, fragile. and realistic.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. The most successful programs fostered youth empowerment and community leadership in various content areas: agriculture, technology, healing. That's a more complicated question.

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Teen Museum Voice Collaboration 20

NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Bharat Mehra claims, in New Media & Society , that "The internet has tremendous potential to achieve greater social equity and empowerment and improve everyday life for those on the margins of society." And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles?

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Digital Laptop Mali Myspace 74

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

realize_ink : Q3: empowerment & ownership. zerostrategist : @ChristinasWorld It IS tiring, mastering the art of the “light touch / soft ask&# is not easy to keep that campaign momentum going. Thank god for SMS, proxy servers & smart mobs right? realize_ink : @amysampleward Giving ppl the opportunity 2 make it their own.

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Campaign Org Social Media Measure 108

NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

Frontiers may have better success if it were made specifically for those in migration policy work or the arts community. The empowerment of girls in third world countries is a topic many corporate sponsors are looking to endorse. Ambitious, multi-layered projects like this have the issue of being hard to fund.

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Game Change Classroom Machinima 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Designing effective training is a both a science and an art form, what was the most training you attended and why? Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot. Social media practices are just that – they get strong and stay strong with practice – so success means consistent application and learning. So stay tuned.

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India NGO Network Exercise 102

Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Constituent Empowerment Honorable Mention: Sierra Club and American Cancer Society Winner: Children International Used TeamRaiser to recruit new sponsors and recuited 5,000 sponsors since 2005 and sponsored over 560 children. Created a wall of 5,000 signers photos.

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Convio Award Social Media Advocacy 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

from replacing ads with art to alerts when you visit the websites of companies that threaten the environment. Panelists will include app developers of mobile web solutions for health, environment, economic empowerment, and social justice. How to Save the World with Firefox Extensions! Do they make a difference?

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