Bloomerang

MARCH 17, 2023

You’ve completed thorough prospect research , cultivated and provided a site visit, prepared a first-rate proposal and secured a meeting to make a solicitation, but the major donor prospect responds with a “no.” ” This scenario occurs every day. Winning fundraisers know how to handle it.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Answers on grant proposals if nonprofits were brutally honest with funders. Abigail Echo-Hawk on the art and science of ‘decolonizing data’ Allison Bauer Discusses Philanthropy Today & Nonprofit Support. Tools: Reflective structured dialogue. Some say philanthropy isn’t the solution. This is an open-ended list.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 17, 2023

You’ve completed thorough prospect research , cultivated and provided a site visit, prepared a first-rate proposal and secured a meeting to make a solicitation, but the major donor prospect responds with a “no.” ” This scenario occurs every day. Winning fundraisers know how to handle it.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Professionals tasked with a knowledge role often organize what feels like chaos—to create structure and focus attention on the most important information. When I proposed the concept of “datamaking,” I was seeking to bring as many aspects of the organization together as possible. Fast forward to today….

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

There is a saying among fundraising professionals that proposal writing is both an art and a science. The art aspect refers to how well an inspired writer describes a project and the grant-seeking organization. Grant seekers must find ways for their proposals to stand out among the rest.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 2, 2021

Experts are not sure when it will be safe to hold large gatherings again, which hinders nonprofits that rely on an events-based structure to generate donations. There are seven steps in Larson’s proposed venture development process that takes six months-year, and at least 200 hours of work to complete, but ensures a business plan result.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

I am part of the Digital Arts Service Corps, which is an initiative of the Transmission Project that pairs tech-savvy AmeriCorps Vistas with organizations dedicated to supporting community media and technology. The goal of the day was to develop a collaborative grant proposal for a project that would be pertinent and beneficial to each CMC.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Every Saturday, the curatorial team at Elsewhere , a living museum in downtown Greensboro, NC, reviews the project proposals of its artists-in-residence. Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Step 3: Analyze Your Nonprofit’s Work The most important questions you should answer in your mission statement are who you serve, how your programs are structured, and your impact on your cause. They could be helpful in finding new ways to talk about your mission in your fundraising appeals, grant proposals, and more. Who Do You Serve?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Photo: Americans for the Arts. I recently submitted a proposal for NTEN’s 2017 Nonprofit Technology Conference with colleagues Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon and Jeanne Allen called “ Supercharge Your Technology Training ,” so please take a minute to vote for it. . It might include standing or walking.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2020

Nina Simon, Lauren Bentua, and many others would host us in the halls of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art. Is it the hierarchical structure of organizations? I would like to share them with you, in case they resonate as something you could do and/or propose in your organization. Many of you are probably old museumcampers.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

Pricing structures. As partners, as a collective, without creating toxic/un-needed structure? Has always been the accidental techie in arts organizations, starting as a volunteer, so how can can I transition and set a dollar value for my skills? Different price structures are ok for different projects.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 24, 2012

state of grantseeking , the state of community development , and arts and humanities organizations ! ” Grantmakers, both government and private, will be looking for this type of collaboration in the proposals that are funded in the years to come. She is guest blogging for TechSoup on the current. Read her posts. on the overall.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. In the education department, we have some key values around slowing down, conversation and participation around art, and deep looking. The proposal to Metlife was all video.

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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. In the education department, we have some key values around slowing down, conversation and participation around art, and deep looking. The proposal to Metlife was all video.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Launched in 2008 to assist individuals pursuing innovative and unconventional approaches to societal challenges, the program has invited proposals around a single topic since 2017. Hewlett awards $17 million in 'adaptation grants' to arts groups.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

I'd like to see larger conferences incorporating an element like this--a structured opportunity for people to brainstorm with those who are outside their own personal networks. That said, the phrase "structured opportunity" is where MuseumNext suffered most.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

The art of writing letters, and writing in general, has fallen by the way­side. We spell poorly, and we know less grammar and sentence structure now than when we played tetherball. Case Study: The lost art of writing. Writing is an art people can do well if they practice. Handwriting feels foreign to most of us.

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Neon CRM

JULY 20, 2023

While this is particularly prevalent in historical or arts nonprofits, you’ll see it in almost every sector. This might include state-of-the-art machinery, computers, software, or other tools designed to improve operations and further the cause. Conducting a Feasibility Study A feasibility study is all about early due diligence.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. It's also standard practice in community arts programs. than by talking in suppositions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. Technology in the Arts is accepting session proposals for its October 2007 conference. applications have changed the rules of online community. There are two sets of social roles here. Deadline March 23, 2007.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

National Arts Marketing Project Conference. National Arts Marketing Project Conference. National Arts Marketing Project / Austin, TX / $575. With continuous shifting trends in the landscape of arts marketing and audience engagement, arts organizations must go beyond “embracing” change. 11/10/2016. Nov 11 - 14.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal. Crowds create original works of knowledge or art. The Royal Opera used Twitter to crowdsource a new opera. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# 2) Crowd Creation.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

“Moving to an online fundraising structure allows us to move quickly and react to campaign needs in a way that direct mail never could.” 60) Search « Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead? “More and more, our supporters who had traditionally donated through the mail started making online contributions,” said Ball.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2010

They partnered with Ashoka Changemakers to develop a state-of-the art idea challenge web site, how they married an online social good contest with civic engagement. We talked to many others who have sponsored contests in Minnesota and around the country to develop our judging structure.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

Of the 26, two are museumish: the Minnesota Zoo and the Walker Art Center, and three are arts organizations: Artspace, In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater and Theatre de la Jeune Lune. They find ways to budget, schedule, and structure organizations so that management is an asset rather than a hindrance.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And if you can develop those relationships with funders, if you can develop great core content, if you can leverage materials for different kinds of proposals, then that is really going to set you up for success. . So if you are a smaller organization, you might not need to have 100k proposal in the pipeline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail Note from Beth: In 1993, I worked as the "network weaver" for an online network for individual artists called "Arts Wire" where I facilitated online conversations, provided technology support and training. In the last few years, the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It’s written in my performance plan!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 9, 2008

LACMA has recently opened their grounds to two pretty unusual art groups, Machine Project and The Public School. Machine Project is a gallery/educational program space with a focus on blending art and technology in craft workshops. with no registration required.

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