The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Effective outreach strategies should focus on connecting with local AAPI groups, leaders, and community centers. Reach out to Asian American student groups on college campuses as well. Consider featuring traditional music, dance, theater, or martial arts groups from the community. AAPI business leaders and entrepreneurs.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In the Broadway musical “Hamilton,” the lead character of Alexander sings about who he and America are meant to be. the numbers of students you can enroll, patients for whom you have beds, ticket buyers for whom you have seats, etc.), You can take art to the schools or bring students to your art. Who Are You Meant to Be?

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Qgiv

APRIL 27, 2022

Before you start planning your raffle, make sure you understand what the local gambling laws are in your state. Reaching out to local businesses and artisans to see if they’d be willing to become in-kind sponsors for your event is another way you can collect items for your raffle. What are good raffle prize ideas? Board game basket.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 20, 2020

As a general trend over the past several years, public schools have seen repeated budget cuts at the federal, state and local levels. Many schools decide to focus on running peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns, in which the students (along with the help of parents and guardians) take on the responsibilities of raising money for their school.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In the Broadway musical “Hamilton,” Alexander Hamilton sings about who he and America are meant to be. For example: If you work in the education sector , you could offer learning opportunities to non-enrolled students. The target supporter market for a local human services agency didn’t extend to the national online world.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2012

rewards users for volunteering at local food banks, animal shelters and other organizations. Volunteering earns you points, which can be redeemed for discounts at local businesses. Created by local NYC students, this game is designed to be played in and around city libraries and teaches players how to use library resources.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Golf Tournament Bring together avid golfers and local philanthropists—in many cases, they’re one and the same—for a day on the greens. Sports Tournament Organizing a sports tournament can attract local teams and sports enthusiasts to compete in games like soccer, baseball, softball, basketball, and more.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

This consists of 45-minute meetings sent out to all donors for updates on programming and the Family Stability Fund, as well as to connect with some students. Further, by inviting the students who are benefiting from the Family Stability Fund, the donors can get first-hand interaction with those that they are helping.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The way The Fog will work, as Christopher Mims describes it in the Wall Street Journal , is that our smart devices will send software updates to one another, rather than routing them through the cloud, a bit like how peer-to-peer music and movie sharing is done via services like Bittorrent. Very sophisticated for a student team.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

I was fascinated by the project’s innovative approach to collecting, sharing, and connecting people through locally-produced media. Some of the new volunteers are high school students, others are college professors. This Pop Up Library just returned from a folk music festival. They blame it on the general public reading less.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

In 1998, during the embryonic stages of the project, this focus turned to a concept called "Reverence for Life," a non-demonational philsophy of self-development which had taken root in Jamaica's prisons. He first has students have fun building the truck out of legos and then teachers them to make it move.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

MSI did three things that most organizations don't or can't do when they set up a video contest: They got a TON of local, national, and international press. Music videos. Maybe their life experience qualifies them as interesting exhibits, but the best exhibits tend to be a little more visitor-focused than self-involved.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

You can also get in contact with any chefs at beloved local restaurants to see if they’d be willing to teach as well. Encouraging kids to read isn’t always easy, but with an added element of competition, you might just turn students into avid bibliophiles! Virtual talent show. Virtual “Around the World” festival. Plant sale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

As you know, I'm working on a screencast about Google Analytics and have been collecting real life nonprofit examples. Greenhill SAVP - This led to a blog post where we had written about a local VC pitch contest we won. you won't get it unless you were a music conservatory student like me. We just laughed at this one.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Abby Rosenheck: Urban sprouts is a school garden program where we support middle and high schools in San Francisco to build school gardens at their school, so the students grow, prepare, eat--the whole thing. Britt Bravo: Do you have any stories about how this work has impacted individual students' lives?

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

State/Local / #MCNAC16 / @SmartNonprofits. State/Local. It’ll open with candid stories about the ups and downs of working in social good and close with an afternoon of action and volunteering with local nonprofits. State/Local / #MadisonNonprofitDay / @nonprofitday. State/Local. State/Local. State/Local.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is the only national conference expressly designed to prepare 400+ college students for a career in the social sector. The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences + Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. Leadership. Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

Elizabeth Perry, an artist in Pittsburgh and pioneer of "sketch blogging" reported that local arts organizations have been good at integrating social media without having to create or maintain anything new. Most people are fascinated by the interior life of artists. What Should Artists and Arts Organization???s s Blog about?

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

American Jazz Museum Platinum – Cultural Websites Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films, and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room, and Gem Theater.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Within the organization, the AARP Public Policy Institute maintains the AARP Livability Index , a key tool in their mission to promote the development of sound policies to address common needs for economic security, health care, and quality of life. Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2007

I have championed the recent Oakland Food Policy Assessment introduced by some amazing grad students at Cal, which lays out a very clear, thorough, and utterly achievable road map for food security in Oakland. Its general premise is to arrive at a point where 30% of Oakland's consumed agricultural products are grown locally.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Within the organization, the AARP Public Policy Institute maintains the AARP Livability Index , a key tool in their mission to promote the development of sound policies to address common needs for economic security, health care, and quality of life. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Celebrate Award Colorado Museum 46

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

provides a 12-week afterschool program and 4-month paid apprenticeship wellness program for low-income high school students. Leslie Neal | ArtSpring | Arts for Incarcerated Women | Homestead, FL ArtSpring uses educational arts programming for developing self-growth and effective life skills for incarcerated women, men and youth.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

the Exploratorium did something really big for the August 1 eclipse and they are all over Second Life (source: Technorati ). The majority of blog traffic mentioning the Exploratorium in the last month has focused on their coverage of the eclipse and a variety of Second Life initiatives. What do you want?”

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

. # 5 Macon Money Macon Money is an innovative project that aimed to unite social, racial, cultural, gender, and economic gaps - all while boosting the local economy! When two bonds are put together, they can be redeemed for goods and services in local businesses. Everyone wins!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 6, 2021

If you all don’t know Jen, I don’t know what you’re doing with your life. But here is the catch, the more optimistic part of me say, “You know what, if one person can love that one person who has hurt the most in their life, then understanding people loving people is probably quite enough a job to figure out.”

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

At the adjacent table, my colleague Stacey Garcia was meeting with a local artist, Kyle Lane-McKinley, to talk about an upcoming project. While both kinds of social capital are important (and their growth non-exclusive), there are often many more opportunities for bonding than for bridging in daily life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

(it was the NMC’s 15th anniversary) that got rolled into a NMC@15 video , and a chance to sign up for 15 minutes of studio time on the John Lennon Bus to create a package of sharable music loops. And you wil find a lot of local scenery in the flickr stream as people enjoyed the streets of Monterey. We will definitely do this again.

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See3

OCTOBER 17, 2009

I’m recovering from a motorcycle accident and unable to attend services at my local synagogue. This is where I belong tonight, but is the first time in my life that I am not in shul. Not to mention that this service was a total knockout of amazing musical performances, prayers and wisdom. … – Eliana. Amen – Eileen.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

And then you may have something like scholarship funds, or the music fund, or something like that. How many of you feel like that, or cringe when your executive director goes, “Let’s just ask some of these high school students that come to after school?” So that’s how I define campaigns and funds. ” OMG.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And then once in a while, we put together a Flickr album, and we send it to them with music behind it and a thank-you. Student, thank-yous, yes, oh, my god. But having students deliver cookies, that was mentioned too. that’s just life. And in this folder, we have the names of everyone and we collect the photos.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 31, 2022

Look for a specific need in your organization that needs to be funded, such as moving five students or families off your waiting list or purchasing most-needed items for emergency food boxes. No live music or DJ. Find a place where they already hang out, like a local brewery and plan a fast event there. The host makes the Ask.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

I've now documented women's lives in 40 countries, over the past 10 or 12 years, and everywhere I went, I found women who were helping each other, local women. They were using music, dance, poetry, and storytelling, and they were succeeding. I am a photojournalist and have just published my fourth book, Women Who Light The Dark.

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