Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. In fact, I used them for this blog (see upper-right), but please ignore the silly photo in the Fotolia ad. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 29, 2023

They can be held in-person or online, and they can easily be paired with other events, which can range from a virtual golf tournament to a charity art exhibition. Giving history: Average giving amount, frequency of gifts, recency of gifts, and estimated lifetime value to your organization. Clear photos and descriptions.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2012

Harbor History Museum asks for only the basics. Portland Museum of Art groups their E-newsletter with links to their social media accounts. Facebook has that nifty little app section at the top – right under the big cover photo, over to the righ. Include Links to Your Social Media Accounts. Add it to your Facebook Apps.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

It’s more like an art form, one that you can learn with practice and by understanding the real purpose of a donation receipt. The Winning Formula for a Flawless Donation Receipt As important as it is to create the right online donation receipt, it is an art form you can master through practice and following our formula.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

I just got back from doing a plenary session at the Arts Summit organized by the Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations. It's gathering of arts leader from throughout New York State. I spoke about social media and future leadership in the arts - and also did a workshop. See the photos here.

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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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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Telling someone they helped a student pay for an art class, for example, is more effective than telling them they helped pay for 35 students to take an art class. Showing a donor a photo of an abandoned dog they helped nurse back to health is more compelling than telling them they helped pay for veterinary care for ten dogs.

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CauseVox

APRIL 12, 2022

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. If you’re doing 1:1 fundraising, we encourage referencing an individual’s donor history. Obviously, the dollar amount asked will depend on who the person is.

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Care2

JULY 13, 2012

ArtClix from the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Museum visitors can use the in-app camera to photograph individual works of art which the app recognizes to serve up information about the piece, comments from past visitors, and for some works, audio orientations from the artist. Louis apps by Missouri History Museum. Historic St.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2023

The most straightforward method is adding personal information about a donor, such as their name and engagement history. Capture photos of your beneficiaries, your volunteers at work, or anything else that will inspire your supporters. Personalization comes in several forms. eCards are the natural evolution of email thank-you messages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Photo and Bio. You just need to show proof of membership. These exist already!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

INTERNSHIPS If you want to join us in Santa Cruz for more professional learning, consider an internship at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We''ve been working for two years to redevelop our History Gallery to be a more dynamic, diverse, engaging space. Video/Photo. Balloon Art Brigade. Youth Programs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

Working with Women Center Stage has helped Greer to connect her interests in art and social justice activism as well. Growing up in a family of activists, she struggled with how to bridge her art and activism. Photo Credit: Photo of Olivia Greer and Women Center Stage logo via Olivia Greer. art activism women

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 5, 2016

Trendswatch 2016 predicts that augmented and virtual realities are going to provide arts and cultural organizations with new ways to make exhibits more accessible. Recently, I sat down with Matthew Gibson, curator of natural history at the Charleston Museum , to find out how he and his team organized the Museum’s first Pokémon Go event.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

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. Yes, there’s both art and science to a good appeal, and you can learn how to do it in a way that motivates people to give. Then, move on to other things. Smaller online campaigns.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). They were “preaching the museum gospel” in NYC via alternative tours at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in. Today on Museum 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

Photo by Mansikka. A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. What is a #HashTag? A hashtag is this symbol: #. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

African-American history mobile tour uses GPS technology to pinpoint historically relevant campus sites nearby. Arts organizations are using mobile technology to help people find. and engage with art in similar ways, as we mentioned in last month's Cool App Roundup: Arts Organization Edition. Photo: Gesa Hemelmans.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

I’m here with our Art Director, Devyn Taylor. The campaign rebuked and said they had no ill intent with this design, that they’d simply dropped the photo down to black and white to show contrast between the candidates and that the point of the flyer is to contrast them. This article references the book The Politics of Design.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

The Lake Wales History Museum recently hosted an online auction dedicated to vintage furniture. For an added competitive level of fun, have each attendee send a cute photo of their pet. Some things to ask for might include: Book collections Technology, like phones, laptops, tablets Certificates to local businesses Art pieces.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2013

You can also see a ton of photos on Instagram , and I highly recommend the Confessional Tent videos for sheer silliness (more on those below). Sure, they might have decided to present an art object in a confrontational and opinionated way. Or they might have chosen to make up a fictitious narrative around history artifacts.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

Art, however, does not come to museums pre-hardened. At the museum of art and history where I work, we are grappling with the question of how to help people enjoy themselves while keeping the art and artifacts safe. The level of touching, especially of art, has increased. How will we deal with this?

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 8, 2012

Tale #4: Most recently we had one alumnus promise us his art collection and then went to post an article online about how he strung us along – he actually posted our email exchanges online through a local newspaper where he was a freelancer…. True, I found some photos of the two of them at a black tie gala in St. Our IT dept.

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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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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Our curator writes labels about licking the art. Merilee Mostov and the Columbus Museum of Art. The lead photo on this post is from a project I saw when I visited last spring. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

Plus, you can use these photos in your social media posts promoting the event to entice your followers to get involved. Art & History Museums Maitland is planning a virtual 3-day online art auction for summer 2021. Set auction item starting bids at around 25-30% of the fair market value.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day. Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Ze was really hands-on with everyone, giving hugs, taking photos, jumping in to do activities with participants. But on the web, it's even more important than in a museum.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" I was surprised by her question.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 25, 2014

With a little tweaking and targeted messaging, you can start to build stronger relationships with millennials: the donors of the future and the largest generation in history. Photo Courtesy of Unsplash: Sunset Girl. Nonprofit Marketing Arts & Cultural Membership millennials'

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project. There hasn’t been a history of collaboration between the museum and the film center and we wanted the chance to partner more deeply, and build a platform where we could continue to do so.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

This week, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened a new temporary exhibition called The Psychedelic Experience , featuring rock posters from San Francisco in the heyday of Bill Graham and electric kool-aid. It’s a thrilling challenge to the traditional form of art museum exhibit design, and better yet, visitors like it.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Riding the art couch through downtown Santa Cruz with two visitors and a dog while blasting the Jackson 5 was one of the highlights of my year. One of our research volunteers, Sangye Hawke, blew me away when she posted a photo on Facebook of the board game she's developing about the restoration work we're doing at historic Evergreen Cemetery.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

This past Friday, we experimented with a new feedback format at an evening event focused on poetry and book arts. full description here , photos from the event here ). We used a simple paper signup list to link individuals to their photos during the event so Kathryn could tie it all together.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 25, 2014

With a little tweaking and targeted messaging, you can start to build stronger relationships with millennials: the donors of the future and the largest generation in history. Photo Courtesy of Unsplash: Sunset Girl. Integrated Marketing Arts & Cultural Membership millennials'

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Photo by Jon Bailiff. Grown men fighting for seats at lectures about the history of the boards. Who in their right minds would show up at 8am on a Sunday for a history event? Photo by Levy Media Works via drone. If you focus on a discipline or art form or niche, be relevant to that. It is a bridge. Killer content.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 14, 2014

It’s perhaps the best educational motto in the history of the universe, as well as the fabled quote inscribed upon the statue of Faber College’s legendary/forgettable founder in the opening scene of Animal House. It’s all about knowing your unique audience, your culture, and making that culture accessible. Knowledge is Good.”.

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