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Planning a Fundraising Event? You Need a Plan B.

Greater Giving

Big Brothers Big Sisters Houston’s traditional annual fundraiser offered guests a memorable culinary tasting experience for virtual guests by delivering cuisine to their homes. Use video and sound production to plan ahead for your event.

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

And while that may sound low, it is double the rate of Facebook Pages. For example, this post by the Houston Food Bank tags and shows appreciation for their sponsor , CVS Health. In the age of monetizing social media through algorithms and paid advertising revenue models, getting two clicks per 100 followers is generous.

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6 Creative Program Ideas for Arts & Cultural Organizations

Connection Cafe

Christmas lights, ice sculptures, and penguins sounded pretty awesome! The Houston Museum of Natural Science has a similar, equally popular series for young professionals. Another fun thing I did in Chicago was go to the zoo in the dark, freezing cold. Because they had a holiday light display.

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3 Lessons in Starting a Nonprofit from an A Cappella Nerd

NonProfit Hub

Be selective so you sound the best you possibly can. Meaning, if your upper range isn’t great, you won’t select a Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey classic (unless you’re Ariana Grande, in which case, feel free to take on any Mariah song). Choose the Right Songs. After your nonprofit forms a mission, stick to it.

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Equity in Arts Funding: We're Not There Yet. We're Not Even Close.

Museum 2.0

The title may sound innocuous. Reading the report, I kept thinking of Rick Lowe, the artist and community activist behind Project Row Houses in Houston. He had been hired on contract in the 1990s as a curator for an exhibition at the MFA Houston on African-American artists. The paper is anything but.

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4 Ways Smart Integrations Can Improve Nonprofit Fundraising Results

Connection Cafe

Sound familiar? Cherrice Browne of Houston, TX based nonprofit The R.O.C.K. Here are four reasons your nonprofit should consider integrating your apps: 1. More time for your mission. You work at a nonprofit because you want to provoke social change, but you spend most of your workday reconciling invoices in your account app.

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NPTECH Punk

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it? at 5:48 pm Michelle, I had an opportunity to “force&# the unconference/camp model of learning, as you described it, on participants at the AIRS (www.airs.org) conference in Houston ( [link] ). link] Make sure it is really water soluable magic marker … 2 Tino Paz 06.21.08

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