The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Embarking on Your AAPI Heritage Month Journey Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, celebrated every May in the United States, provides an important opportunity to honor the history, culture, and achievements of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Displaying AAPI visual arts is another engaging activity.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 4, 2024

Implementing a set of standardized engagement strategies can help your cause grow and maintain the energy needed to fuel your activities. For example, you might ask an artist volunteer to design graphics for your website.

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Forum One

JUNE 6, 2024

New information, stories, and updates about your mission and activities will encourage repeat visits and ongoing engagement from your audience. Like a good ask-me-anything session with your favorite artist, these bits of interactivity boost engagement. Of course, these should be aligned with your goals and mission.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Concert tickets Buying concert tickets has become like a competitive sport, as passionate fans flood ticket platforms to see their favorite artist live. For example, if your town is known for gorgeous cherry blossom trees, offering paintings with these trees by a local artist can inspire bidding.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

As of May 2, I will be the executive director of the Museum of Art & History at McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, CA (here's the press release ). Because of the increased workload I expect in the months to come, as well as the likely possibility that we will start a Museum of Art & History blog, I'm lowering my Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Click here to listen to a very brief interview Over the weekend, I attended the Technology in the Arts Conference in Pittsburgh where artist and activist Faith Ringgold was one of the keynote speakers. " I had a chance to do a quick video interview with her about her thoughts on women artists. They are brilliant!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

She has a big heart for and background in social change and activism. Jude, Make A Wish, American Cancer Society, and The Museum of African American History. She is a veteran touring artist, songwriter, live sound engineer and music publisher. She is also a 3rd generation auctioneer focusing on benefits.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

Stacey has been collaborating with local artists to produce a series of content-rich events that invite visitors to participate in a range of hands-on activities. Instead, Stacey thought, why not make the feedback experience an activity unto itself? full description here , photos from the event here ).

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood, and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. Participants observe a conversation on a select topic amongst an expert panel.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2017

The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History keeps growing and experimenting in our quest to build a stronger, more connected community. The Exhibitions Catalyst will lead the way in bringing together artists and diverse partners in the development of powerful exhibitions. We are dreaming big, reaching out, and going deep.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

blog and executive director, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History , told me about this amazing and fun co-created card game to help you think about self-care activities called the The Space Deck. If you work for a nonprofit, if you create the space for yourself to practice self-care – what are those activities?

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Karaoke Karaoke is more than a fun bar night activity—it can be a nonprofit event with multiple revenue streams. The ice cream social is also part of our nation’s history—the first occurred in the White House in 1802 during Thomas Jefferson’s presidency. This will be a great event for social media promotion and engagement.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 23, 2013

If you asked me a month ago what the biggest barrier was to American arts organizations adopting practices that support active engagement in the arts by diverse participants, I would have said two: money and legitimacy. But secondly, and more importantly, it meant validation for active participation in the arts.

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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. We are hiring a temporary contract curator to activate the plaza this summer with 25+ cultural events. creative placemaking design Museum of Art and History programs public space'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We propose the following Principles to define responsible and ethical practices that will help nonprofits, donors and the industry engage in these online activities in ways that are productive and ensure consistency with long-established laws that strive to balance the interests of stakeholders. Principles for Responsible Crowdfunding.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Dear friends, We're about a month from the deadline to apply for MuseumCamp 2017 at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). A month before MuseumCamp, the MAH is opening a new exhibition, Lost Childhoods , co-developed with foster youth, youth advocates, and artists in our community. Dive into co-creative project design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

And the Producers Institute is a 10-day workshop that brings together a select group of documentary filmmakers and technologists to create outreach and activism strategies using online and mobile tools for activism. But that is only the jumping off point for the inquiry.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year!

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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. We encouraged teams to think like artists, not researchers. Every active research method is an intervention. How do you measure that?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

One that has found remarkable success is California’s Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Audiences of all backgrounds found ways to connect with museums as it presented exhibitions with the help of foster youth, migrant farmers, roller-derby girls, mushroom hunters, surfers and incarcerated artists, among others.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 30, 2024

For example, State Arts Councils provide funding to support local artists and cultural projects, helping to preserve and promote regional heritage. They fund activities like staff training, strategic planning, and technology upgrades. They offer nonprofits the opportunity to make a tangible impact on their communities.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 18, 2017

This exhibition is a big accomplishment for us because it incorporates multiple ways we push boundaries at the MAH: we co-designed it with 100+ community partners (C3) , including artists, foster youth, and youth advocates, with youth voices driving the project from big idea to install to programming.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

These histories can be built on but there is a risk they begin to drift from the original prompt and even forget key elements. Newsletters : AI writers can help nonprofits design and write newsletters that keep donors and supporters up-to-date on their latest activities and achievements.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Earlier this fall, I read this headline: "Stanford study: Participation in a cultural activity may reduce prejudice." I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. I wanted to know more. Direct questioning.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2013

The weather is hopefully the least of the reasons you should want to come work with us here at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Participatory Performing Artist-in-Residence program. Museum of Art and History Quick Hits' It''s the typical temperature here all spring, summer, and fall. It''s pretty freaking beautiful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Is it only used by people with artistic talents and graphic design skills? Anyone can be a designer! We were asked to listen to a PPT presentation that shared the history, mission, goals, challenges and opportunities. But, there was a twist – we were asked to do critical or active listening. What is Human Centered Design?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

Women Center Stage has launched women artists' work like Iris Bahr, who wrote and performed " Dai " at the festival, and is now performing her piece on Culture Project's main stage, and Staceyann Chin , who did a workshop of, "Border/Clash" as part of the Women Center Stage festival, and went on to produce fuller productions of the piece.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

Over the past two years, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has undergone a significant transformation of program, audience, and resources. Our revolution is predicated on three big ideas: Art and history are something you do, not just something you learn about. You want to have an artist collective sleepover at the museum?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

It's my second week as the Executive Director at The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz, CA, and boy is my everything tired. I want to get some used furniture and create "lounges" on these landings where volunteers can do crafts or history research with visitors in a comfortable setting. Board committee meetings. Like couches?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

In particular, we want exhibition collaborators--artists, researchers, historians, collectors--to understand our goals and how we intend to steer the exhibition development process. We see our visitors as partners in actively interpreting and exploring exhibition content.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

But we've just compiled all our attendance data for the past year at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (our fiscal year ends on June 30), and several people have written to me asking for the numbers behind our turnaround. actively sought out community needs to respond to. design new programs with a focus on history.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2013

This week, the Santa Cruz Weekly's cover story is about my museum (the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ) and the work we have done to make it a more participatory, community-centered place over the past two years. Perry describes me as the "conductor" of a community-programmed orchestra.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. We exist for people who live in Santa Cruz County.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

They tell histories of white male conquest. They present masterpieces by white male artists and innovations by white male scientists. When non-white stories are told, they are always flagged as such--an exhibition of Islamist scientific inventions or women pioneers or African-American artists.

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