CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Paint and sip events work for any type of organization, artists of all levels, and can easily be adapted for every season. If you’re going the DIY route, reach out to a local artist to lead the class, and stock up on all the necessary supplies. Your artist just has to log in and lead class virtually. come judge the contest.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Are you approaching your work in an active or a passive manner? I came up with an idea to mesh my love of weekend crafts fairs and artist open studio visits with my day job. and I was delighted to find the artist community was extremely generous when helping us out. . Ask yourself: . What moments is your nonprofit living?

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

With the majority of daily activities taking place over the web, it’s no surprise that we’ve also observed a rise in virtual fundraising. Choose a day and actively encourage donations and sharing through all your social media channels, such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Snapchat. Live-Streaming. Zoom to the rescue!

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Whole Whale

JULY 17, 2024

Fox Foundation , DoSomething.org , and (of course) the ALS Association. Get companies involved, have people come out to the course, and raise money for your organization. Whether it’s by walking around a track ( Relay for Life ) or dancing for 24 hours straight, challenge events engage communities and make for great fundraising ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

But this year in my current role leading the Active Voice Lab for Story & Strategy I did more listening than screening. During the first 10 years at Active Voice we commissioned outside firms and social scientists to give us qualitative feedback about our process and our partners’ satisfaction. Measurement'

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

What''s the best way to get formal input from diverse community members? I''ve mostly seen museums employ one of two methods for formal community advisors: Create special "spots" on the board of trustees for certain kinds of community representatives. PRO: gets diverse community members in positions of real authority.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Host a Community Clean-Up. Online Course. Or do what Planned Parenthood did and partner with local tattoo artists who may have a connection to your cause to donate a portion of their bookings to your organization. Bonus points if the artist does an entire custom flash related to your cause. Click To Tweet. Enroll Now.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

After we’ve had time to eat and chat, we’ll do some fun activities to help you generate lots of juicy blog posts in 2012. During this 4-week e-course you’ll play with fun assignments through a private blog with your fellow juicy bloggers. I’ll also share tips for increasing traffic and engagement. $35 of your blog?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

For the past two years, I''ve been working on a project to activate the concrete space adjacent to our museum as a vibrant, community plaza. After years of community town halls, design, and prototyping, we''re finally starting to build our dream. It''s an exciting, intense, educational time. multiple times per week.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Find the artist among you and have fun creating a work of art that all moms might enjoy. Identify 3-5 powerful stories of moms in your network to share with your community. Encourage people to create Facebook fundraisers to gain community support for their race endeavors. Online Course. Stories of Strong Moms.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2018

It’s a great opportunity to network with your community and encourage social interaction. It’s a great way for donors to get outside and be active, and more experienced bikers will enjoy not having to plan their own route or pack their own supplies. And since it’s a themed party, you can get creative with decorations and activities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

He offers courses, consulting, and coaching to transform your organization and your leadership. Some donors look for these signals of community support (everybody’s doing it) to make the decision that they would be in good company if they donate. Community impact or commemorative wall. Design them free on Canva. Photo and Bio.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

Although fundraising for arts organizations has unique challenges—like justifying the need to ask for support from donors for your arts and culture versus donating to the efforts of front-line workers—art in all forms is something that every community needs. This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more.

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Qgiv

APRIL 27, 2022

Is there a volunteer in your community who’s known for their famous pies or cookies? For a big-ticket item, raffle off a getaway to a golf resort to give a lucky donor the opportunity to play on new and exciting golf courses for a whole weekend! Raffle off some coveted, oven-baked goodies to your lucky donors! Golf getaway.

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CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2021

Parkinson’s Nebraska used the walk concept to inspire their Walk the State fundraiser, which asked participants to communally walk the distance it would take to cross the state of Nebraska. It’s a fun idea that ties in the organization to the activity. It’s super fun and a great way to build community while bringing in donations.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 3, 2014

These can help you enjoy the fundraising process and engage the community in a different manner than a straight ask campaign. This fundraiser involves all the great plot lines from your favorite spy movies: late-night attacks, betrayal, payback-counter attacks, and of course, insurance. Flock away! Challenge Causes.

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Achieve

JUNE 21, 2015

Of course, I’m pretty biased, but this is already shaping up to be the best MCON we’ve ever produced. We’ll also hear from Jonathan Neman, founder and co-CEO of sweetgreen, a culinary lifestyle brand dedicated to smartly sourced food and the balance between work, life, food and community. Nonprofit Hub. Museum of Contemporary Art.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Colleges are addressing greater cultural and racial understanding in various courses. Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. We are a community of museum bloggers who write from a variety of perspectives and museum disciplines. There is hardly a community in the U.S.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

How, he asked, could a large museum that serves hundreds of thousands of people per year foster the same sense of personal connection and community that a small one can achieve? I think small museums are generally better than large ones at fostering local communities of visitors and members. Complicity makes big places feel intimate.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). Beck talks about this in the context of learning to play music as a young artist.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

How do community members make your institution better? Yes, we have the standard ways--volunteer programs, board service, and community partnerships--but I strongly believe that if we are doing our jobs right, every visitor who walks through our doors should be able to make a meaningful impact.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

A few years and a few hundred open mics into that experience, it became obvious that some venues fostered amazing poetry communities, others, not so much. The whole experience welcomed newcomers while helping them understand what "value" constituted in that community. This is an issue we are actively grappling with at our museum.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Of course, they’re also challenging to manage as you’re handling the donations of items on one end and funds on the other. Karaoke Karaoke is more than a fun bar night activity—it can be a nonprofit event with multiple revenue streams. Of course, these events don’t have to be just for kids.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Now I’m excited to see how cause communities embrace this emerging network to create value and mission impact. Food can offer great visuals and this can be a great community building exercise. Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. Build a collection of innovative recycling in your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Of course, there were some prizes involved!). This approach focuses on listening and looking at the infrastructure and DNA of the conservation community with humility, imagination, and curiosity. These new leaders wouldn’t self-identify as environmentalists, but would be motivated to continue driving victories for their communities.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The project arose from a grant announcement from MetLife Foundation around community engagement and outreach. Our first notion was all about something mobile, something that would go out to the community. We partnered with the Northwest Film Center to conduct workshops with community organizations around personal object storytelling.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It was a local history urban scavenger hunt that sent teams of 2-5 people out into the city to track down as many historic checkpoints as they could over the course of an evening. It turned out that there were many different kinds of people who were excited about an active, adventurous approach to history. There were grizzled cyclists.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. Of course, space-making works when you respect your colleagues and know they can do killer work.

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Candid

MAY 29, 2024

But of course, we all have multiple social identities. The librarian receives a single hard copy of a book on bisexual Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Have we considered the burden of the spotlight we’ve placed on those who fit the prototype of their identities by assuming they represent their entire communities?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history. We have a great community of learners that ask and answer questions and our videos are being translated by volunteers all over the world. Many museums produce superb lesson plans, curator interviews and artist interviews for the web.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 17, 2015

Of course, I’m pretty biased, but this is already shaping up to be the best MCON we’ve ever produced. We’ll also hear from Jonathan Neman , founder and co-CEO of sweetgreen, a culinary lifestyle brand dedicated to smartly sourced food and the balance between work, life, food and community. I’m also excited to hear from Anna Palmer.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The best event for your nonprofit is one that serves your mission, delights your community, and doesn’t totally burn out your staff. Charity Races like marathons, 5Ks, fun runs, or walkathons invite participants to register with your nonprofit and collect donations from their community, making every step count for your cause.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

I tweeted and Facebooked a request for friends to suggest things I could resolve to do over the course of 2009. I met many new people and learned a lot about technology and community, but the learning wasn''t the point, enjoying the resolutions was. Experimonth started out as play.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). The institution is community-funded, staffed, and designed. a "wedding worthy" community hall). a "wedding worthy" community hall). 5'11", 6'1", etc.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Get your staff, board members, most dedicated donors, and active members of your community involved by asking them to kick off the first peer to peer fundraisers. ” Encourage your community to run outside or on their treadmill. Have them keep track of their miles using this Activity Metric or Strava.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

The project arose from a grant announcement from MetLife Foundation around community engagement and outreach. Our first notion was all about something mobile, something that would go out to the community. We partnered with the Film Center to conduct workshops with community organizations around personal object storytelling.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Small organizations are often best at forming long-term relationships with community members, whereas large organizations can rally lots of participants for a contributory project. A lot of these projects are about getting people to be more social and active in museums. What''s the biggest obstacle to more of these projects happening?

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