Forum One

JUNE 9, 2021

Forum One received 10 awards in eight categories in this year’s awards for Canopus (platinum), Centauri (gold), and Arcturus (rose gold) across the categories of environmental awareness, cultural, art, health care services, associations, branded content, and website redesign. National Air & Space Museum. The Vilcek Foundation.

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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. Truman Scholarship Foundation. Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts. The Harry S.

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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. The majority of foundation funding for the arts goes to large, established organizations that present work that is based in the European canon for a primarily white, upper-income audience.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2011

British Heart Foundation :: View Collection. Buy your holiday cards from the British Heart Foundation and 100% of the profit goes towards helping beat heart disease. The Jimmy Fund/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute :: View Collection. Anderson Cancer Center Children’s Art Project :: View Collection.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The Frist Art Museum. The Frist Art Museum is a destination for art, culture, and community in the heart of Nashville, TN. Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation. Outstanding Website. Health Care Standard of Excellence. I’m Determined. Best Education Website.

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Qgiv

MAY 1, 2023

Read books written by AAPI authors and visit a museum to learn about significant figures in the AAPI community and their contributions. Exploring Asian and Pacific art is also a great way to delve into AAPI history. You can even visit virtual museums or look up educational resources online. Donate to the foundation here.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Private 501(c)3 foundations can now register for TechSoup's product donation programs. From supporting arts and sciences to public health and community investment, foundations have been instrumental grantmakers in public life for decades. How to Register Your Foundation. Private Independent Foundation.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2019

With the average patient costing $2,000 to treat, the funds will cover expenses for six sea turtles. . The donations collected will contribute to Broadway Cares’ support of The Actors Fund’s safety net of social service programs and its own annual National Grants Program. . Whatever you decide, get creative!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2012

In case you haven’t heard, 501(c)(3) private foundations are now eligible to receive Microsoft donations through the Microsoft Software Donation Program. Together with Microsoft, we’re excited to help foundations understand the donation program and how it can benefit your organization and the communities you serve.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2012

case you haven’t heard, 501(c)(3) private foundations are now eligible to receive donated video conferencing, online collaboration, and remote desktop solutions from the Citrix Online Donation Program. In addition to the Citrix program, there are many other donation programs on TechSoup that are open to private foundations.

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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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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Here are a few tried-and-true go-to items that will give your auction a solid foundation and appeal to all types of supporters. Recently, modernist and impressionist paintings have been selling particularly well in the art world. Recently, modernist and impressionist paintings have been selling particularly well in the art world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Americans for the Arts :: @ Americans4Arts. Children’s Defense Fund :: @ ChildDefender. Electronic Frontier Foundation :: @ EFF. National Museum of American History :: @ AMHistoryMuseum. Ploushares Fund :: @ Plough_Shares. World Wildlife Fund :: @ WWF. American Solar Energy Society :: @ ASES_Solar.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

But this month, it's as if there was a subliminal email sent to a crew of bloggers in the arts suggesting a salon about audience diversity, and how/why to move in that direction. Jada is passionate about supporting the future of African-American heritage institutions and working to diversify the museum field as a whole.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

It was then that I began working at a local art museum as a volunteer. I was assigned to the art school to track art classes and enrollments, and to work on reporting and making sure records were polished and current. When I look back, this was one of the most sophisticated fundraising programs in Texas!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Photo courtesy of The Miami Foundation. This post was cross-posted from the Knight Foundation Blog and written by Jessica Hodder who is the digital communications associate for Knight Foundation. million, organizers at The Miami Foundation realized that Give Miami Day 2014 would be their most successful Giving Day yet.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Six years ago, the Paul Hamlyn Foundation set out on an ambitious quest. They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. Extra credit if you read the Our Museum evaluation (or its summary ) as well.

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DipJar

JANUARY 28, 2022

To learn more about the Gardens and how they have fared during these trying times, we spoke with Vernon Bryant, the executive director of the Florida Botanical Gardens Foundation. Since 2020, DipJar has worked with the Florida Botanical Gardens Foundation to support its fundraising efforts. And then the Foundation discovered DipJar.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

It’s been a rough couple years for arts-based nonprofits. As pandemic aid has run out without patrons returning in pre-2020 numbers, many arts nonprofit across the country have had to shrink programming, cut staff, or close altogether. This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

Or produce an art exhibit with elementary school students. How would you fund it? Kickstarter is a website for creative folks to find funding for their dream projects. The site doesn't link them with foundations or grant applications; instead, it makes it easy to reach out to regular people for donations of as little as $1.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 6, 2016

Five years ago, I left the consulting world to take the helm at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) at a time of crisis and change. We have spent the past three years planning and raising money for a project to build a creative town square for our city on the front porch of the museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

I''m part of a cohort of ten arts organizations in California funded by the Irvine Foundation to strengthen our work to engage low-income and ethnically-diverse people. ON TACKLING A STUCK THING// Deborah Cullinan (Executive Director of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts ) spoke about the change process. Here''s what hit me.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Virtual tours for museums. Your local museums may not be open for admission, but that doesn’t mean you can’t explore all they have to offer. Partner with your local museums to offer virtual tours to your donors, complete with fun, educational facts and some behind-the-scenes action. Student art show.

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

Museum of Contemporary Art. The theme of MCON 2015 is “The Power of Influence: Art, Media, Business and Place” and an incredible lineup of speakers from the corporate, nonprofit and public sectors will share stories of the successes and failures they’ve encountered while changing the world. The Art Assignment.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

But Vi doesn't work in a science museum. Its funding has skyrocketed as major foundations and technology companies have made multi-million dollar grants and investments in its growth. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, who are well known in museums for their excellent Smarthistory website and podcasts.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2020

Donations to donor advised funds and supporting organizations are not eligible for this deduction. This loan program will provide funding to organizations with between 500 and 10,000 employees through December 31. This package also includes additional funding for a number of government programs and direct payments to individuals.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

Outcomes could include: more diverse fundraisers and pools of donors; equal funding for diverse-led organizations; and more seats at the table, especially at the executive and board levels, for people and voices across the spectrum of experience and perspective.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

As an example, the ‘Millennial Impact Report’ was a study commissioned by the Case Foundation. We decided in 2016 to pivot toward open source content management systems as the foundation of our technology platforms. We did significant academic research on the millennial generation and emerging giving trends.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2019

At the time, I was leading the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We ended up working with two sets of consultants, funded by two different foundations, for over a year. Knight Foundation - to write this toolkit. You don’t need funding or a consultant to get started collecting data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2009

Brooklyn Museum With over 21,000 followers, the Brooklyn Museum, one of the oldest and largest museums in the country, is having discussions about art with art patrons and other art museums on Twitter. They tweet about important resources, charities, and funding programs in their region.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Way better than that video at Museum X where the director drones on about the new initiatives of the year. I LOVE the way the James Irvine Foundation presents their lessons learned from grant-making in the Arts Innovation Fund program. This is just a super-interesting review of an exhibition of damaged art.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2012

You know those times when you are looking for a blog that provides you with meaty analysis on contemporary issues in arts engagement? When you want someone rooted in both the business and art worlds? Here's what I love about Createquity: In-depth analysis of arts research reports. Exposure to a broader arts world.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2013

The weather is hopefully the least of the reasons you should want to come work with us here at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. This is a new program we created with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to enable performing artists to develop work at the MAH that invites active audience participation.

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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.). Relative to other museums, I think we spend less time producing an "onstage" experience and more time collaborating with community organizations behind the scenes to empower them to produce.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Last week, I was in Minneapolis for the American Association of Museums annual meeting. Kathleen McLean led a terrific session called "Dangerous Ridiculous" about risk-taking in museums. Interestingly, at my museum, our team is naturally better at ridiculous than we are at dangerous. I found this idea really powerful.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 6, 2015

Glancing through it in your car in the parking lot before entering the event, you notice a name you don’t know well (the attendee from the previous scenario) and read that your staff has noted that they are new to town, but had uncovered in a google search that they were a major donor to the arts organizations of their previous town.

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