NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Cause Camp 2020 is officially in the books! For our third year of this series, we featured three outstanding people: Erin Dinan from One Sandwich at a Time , Jared Fenton from The Reflect Organization , and Veranda Rodgers from Pregnant with Possibilities Resource Center. Here is a recap of Cause Camp 2020. .

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Their competitive nature makes them exciting for participants, and you can tailor the atmosphere and items to your target audience. One essential resource you’ll need to create before your event is an auction catalog. Live auctions can become signature, annual events for nonprofits. List everything the winner will receive.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

If your audience is one that responds more positively to social media, then you might want to try a social media sharing blitz. Hosting a live-stream fundraiser is an excellent way to attract, nurture, and convert your audience over the course of a day. Have your lead artist jump on and run the class on Zoom. Live-Streaming.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

Plus, this type of event can be applied to all different types of missions, so there’s bound to be an idea that appeals to your cause and audience. Some things to ask for might include: Book collections Technology, like phones, laptops, tablets Certificates to local businesses Art pieces. Art-themed Auction. Superhero Night.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Visual Meeting Workshop by David Sibbet and Rachel Smith - Based on Sibbet's book Visual Meetings. Rachel, a virtuoso technologist and artist, used a drawing tablet and Sketchbook pro. Here’s an interview with Rachel about the techniques and a blog post the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. If this isn't enough, she'll be giving away three free copies of Cliff Atkinson's new book, The Back Channel, required reading for trainers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

But first, let me share the description and what I’m planning: This interactive session is based on a key theme in the book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored by Beth Kanter and Allison Fine. There are over 200,000 professional artists in the US — and a bunch of them have problems the techies could help solve.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

Within Media Cause’s Creative, Brand, and Design team, one of our favorite things to do— besides creating incredible work for our clients—is sharing inspirational and educational resources with each other: articles, POVs, webinars, classes, books, case studies, blogs, tutorials, cheese.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2006

I've been accumulating resources about how to make presentations better (more interactive). It's a long article, but this quote resonated: You can learn a lot from presentation coaches and communication books, but this is not rocket science. Spoken as a true artist he writes, "The right color can help persuade and motivate.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

But this month, it's as if there was a subliminal email sent to a crew of bloggers in the arts suggesting a salon about audience diversity, and how/why to move in that direction. The Center for the Future of Museums maintains a good list of top ten resources on demographic change as related to museums.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This is the third in a series of posts about Paul Light's book Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations that Innovate Naturally. This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). It's inherent in what we do.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This is the second installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Every Tuesday in June, this blog will feature a guest post examining some aspect of the book. One book was about farm life and the other about a knight and his dragon. Facebook discussion board here.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

In the fall of 2013, they launched Re:Make , an ambitious project to redevelop the museum, live, on the floor, with a mix of staff, guest artists, and community members. They invite people to participate: in design , prototyping , artifact interpretation , collections preparation , audience development. It''s like a swap.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It’s not unusual for us to meet with an environmental activist, a balloon artist, a farmer, and the Mayor of Santa Cruz all in one day. Incredible assets, skills and resources to offer to your community but they are in need of more awareness, promotion, visibility and representation. Good communication skills and are kind and friendly.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

It’s not solely about how museums can serve communities but rather what are the communities’ resources, knowledge and interests that can inform museum practice? Putnam, who has written extensively about social capital in American society in his book, Bowling Alone.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. Over the past seven years, this exploration has been undertaken by a staff of artists and more than 35 creators each year participating in our residency program.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. The result was an 800 page book of narratives, pictures, stories, and much more that will now be part of the library’s collection.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Artists and activists exhibiting their work. These books frame the concept of social bridging and offer both inspiring and dismaying examples from different sectors. Follow any of the many wonderful online resources produced by bubbles that are not your own. Homeless adults and history buffs improving a historic cemetery.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. This isn''t unique to audience participation; it''s a reality that any new project or course of action stirs up all kinds of anxieties about organizational change.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. This isn't unique to audience participation; it's a reality that any new project or course of action stirs up all kinds of anxieties about organizational change.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

That catchy alliteration makes him sound like a comic book character, like Clark Kent or Lois Lane, Peter Parker or Bruce Banner. To make ends meet, artists would sometimes team up as a studio — helping each other come up with ideas, chipping in when someone was in danger of missing a deadline, teaching each other tips and tricks.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The type of events that will work best for your nonprofit will depend on three major factors: Your organization’s mission, your available resources, and your supporter’s preferences. And you don’t need famous musical groups either: Local acts with local fan bases are a great way to attract audiences and put on a great show.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street. This Pop Up Library just returned from a folk music festival.

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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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Allegiance Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The ultimate goal of using a fundraising tool is to increase revenue by reaching broader audiences, providing better donor experiences, automating repetitive tasks, improving marketing efforts, and more. Post blog articles, videos, and other media to inform and educate the audience about your mission. Button: Book a Demo!

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library's resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. The result was an 800 page book of narratives, pictures, stories, and much more that will now be part of the library's collection.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Were they really using it as a post-visit resource? We saw that these artists were using the wall, then telling us about it on Flickr. Do you think of your efforts as trying to draw new audiences into the museum or reach out to meet them where they are? I think about it as going to them rather than the audience coming to us.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

With technology improving, virtual and hybrid events rising in popularity, and new event ideas coming to fruition, it can be hard to determine the best fundraising event that aligns with your audience, goals, and overall mission. Audience members can even continue to give as the show is happening with text fundraising!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2012

Shortly after, I decided to start curating resources on data visualization over at Scoop.It and continue to add the best stuff to the resources section on the session wiki. I’m not an artist, but giving myself permission to draw with my magic markers really helped me get past the block.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

Amazon and Netflix use algorithms to manipulate our choices of books and movies. We should begin by focusing the bots on tasks that can unleash trapped resources or free staff to pursue higher-level human contact.”. Next, figure out who the intended audience might be. Is it complex or simple? Also determine the cost.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

With the right resources, you can elevate your fundraiser from the average auction experience to a streamlined event that will leave a lasting impression on your auction guests. Once you’ve identified your audience, you can begin seeking out specific gift items to add to your auction baskets. Include experiences.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 16, 2020

Numerous colleagues and I made suggestions and prepared resources to ensure that we had protocols, and that our digital projects were accessible to anyone regardless of internet access or physical ability. I understand the field at large is struggling to catch up with the demands of digital resources. Swarupa Anila, and Ken Morris.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

It was good opportunity for me to look back at the crowdsourcing chapter in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , and update the examples and thinking. The presentation was followed by a discussion about how one might evaluate efforts to engage crowds. Does crowdsourced creativity reach a different (younger) and new audience segment?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2015

To work at an arts organization today, you must believe that there is value in, and demand for, your artistic product. You must balance what your audience wants with what your organization requires to survive—and thrive. But they are dependent on the loyalty of their audiences. Art cannot meaningfully exist without an audience.

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2023

They’re often seen as a drain on time and resources. When well crafted, this resource can be a vital tool to retain and grow donor support. A nonprofit annual report is an externally-facing resource that recaps an organization’s accomplishments and challenges within a year. Let’s get started. What is a nonprofit annual report?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 12, 2007

UNESCO in the Spotlight Shalini Kantayya is a filmmaker, educator, and activist who uses film/video as a tool to educate, inspire, and empower audiences. What I am seeking to do now is to make a major motion picture about the future of water that will move audiences and really put this issue on the map. It shook me out of my seat.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2010

One of the attractions for this collaboration was NYSCI’s diverse audience, many of whom were not part of the current Maker Faire community. There is a whole range of recyclers, hackers, metalworkers, weavers, builders, circuit benders, and artists up and down the East Coast that NYSCI connected with through the Maker Faire planning.

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