Blue Avocado

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Jason Alvis from ReHope Measuring the Personal Impact Over Numbers Success, for us, is a function of the life stories and experiences of the children we serve, and their families. We do not view box office receipts and number of “butts-in-seats” as the only measuring stick by which we celebrate our outcomes.

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OCTOBER 4, 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.

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JULY 28, 2022

Black History Month is a month that celebrates the achievements of African Americans and the struggles they’ve faced throughout U.S. This month celebrates the achievements of women and their contributions to society. Artistic nonprofits should raise funds for National Poetry Month, especially literary nonprofits.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Art Exhibition You can never go wrong with highlighting local artists. Arts and Crafts Fair Hold an arts and crafts fair that celebrates the creativity of local artisans. Celebrate the joys of gardening and sustainable living. The possibilities are endless!

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

SpringFundraising idea Number 2: Celebrate National Cereal Day with a pajama party for good. The Persian New Year coincides with the March equinox and is celebrated around the world (including the 1 million Iranian-Americans living in the United States). Celebrate National BBQ Month in May with a BBQ for your cause.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Make sure to advertise your artists and makers on your social media platforms leading up to the opening of your shop with photos and videos. Give your artistic students the opportunity to show off their skills by hosting a virtual art show. Virtual craft fair. Virtual tours for museums. Student art show. Gaming fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Fortunately for Mateo, this guilty father is helping him celebrate with some of his favorite things and places this past weekend. The experiment studied deferred gratification in children by offering one marshmallow to each child and one additional marshmallow if they could resist the temptation of eating the first one for fifteen minutes.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

You may receive items like artisan olive oil from a local shop, fresh bread from a bakery, and handmade candles from a nearby artist. A day out at the zoo or aquarium is a useful gift for families with young children. Partner with a variety of local businesses and restaurants to fill a local goods basket. Personal chef prize.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 23, 2016

This post is all about experiencing and celebrating epic nonprofit stories. So I hope you find some pearls of inspiration to elevate your most atomic stories —because great artists (and marketers) always steal. #1 1 Save the Children: “Most Shocking Second a Day” (2 min). . #1

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. Young, old, poor, rich, conservative, liberal, urban, rural, black, white, brown, red, yellow, gay, straight, preps, goths, rappers, artists, hippies, yuppies… you name it. So, my Ode to MySpace: 1.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2015

It's an evangelical church with astonishing programs that attracts the crowds, including celebrities like former New York Giants quarterback, Jeff Hostetler, and his family. The church stages big-name contemporary-Christian concerts with artists like Matthew West and Colton Dixon of American Idol fame.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Some of us have children. The artist was masterful not only in her technical skill but also in her way with people. But celebrating those little pieces of knowledge and skills as positive can also be helpful to your wellness. I’m glad to be known that way. Like all people, my insides broil and burble with the stresses of life.

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JUNE 3, 2009

The GATC’s most distinguished project to date is the Genesis World Music Ensemble, or the Saffron Caravan, which brings together music artists from the Middle East, North Africa and the Americas to revisit, reinvent and link musical traditions. The group later travelled to Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Or consider giving out a specific reward or celebration for people who contribute to a certain level of time or money to the cause. Consider reaching out to the artist community and within your organization (children in particular) seeking artwork to sell. Make your fundraising event unusual or fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

The Joe Goode Dance Company spoke about the challenges of getting an artistic director to Tweet. One of the things they discovered is that their audience wants to hear from the artists. But not all the artists are comfortable on Twitter. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Posters: Wall of Reflection and Gratitude.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

You do not need to be an “artist” to make a postcard, but each participant is surprised and delighted by their creativity and to see that their cards contain colors, words and images that reflect their strongest selves. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do. What is your favorite Traveling Postcards success story?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2012

One director of a children's museum even told me that they "eventize" normal operations--calling a Saturday a "family festival" without changing the planned programming--to draw more people. Zoos, aquaria, science and children's museums boast a significant "anytime" audience of families who return again and again.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Ian and Sam asked us to design three seemingly-simple things: a challenge to overcome, rules to master, and a win condition to celebrate. Artistic Director Diane Paulus has spoken powerfully about her desire to transform Oberon, the Donkey Show's venue, into an atypical theater space by stripping away all A.R.T. It's not easy.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

Why are museums going in the other direction, trying to become more consistent rather than celebrating their idiosyncrasies? The institutions that seem most prey to a "cookie cutter" approach are science centers and children's museums. They may employ local artists to help create visitor experiences.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Are they wanting to fund children’s programs? That higher education level, the ability to communicate, the ability to complete their education affects probably their spouse or their partner, it might affect their children. If the experience of those children is not positive, then is it really a celebration?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Staged a major exhibition celebrating the spectrum of what is in the library, public programs partners with The Moth. My focus is on how children learn science. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Learning Science by Design. Future Babycastles is in Williamsburg, just opened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2015

After publishing this post about Save the Children’s Crowd Funding Campaign – where I mentioned the Dalai Lama Foundation’s successful campaign , I noticed this tweet in my stream from Brian Rusch the former deputy director for the DLF : Woohoo! ” Pulling together a campaign team is really critical to success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2007

Ed Schipu l, who grew a mustache for children with cancer last week, created a peavator. It all started when Susan Reynolds , a social media maven and artist, was diagnosed with breast cancer and started a blog to write about her experience and used twitter to fight her cancer. We'll be back before 2008 with a roundup of 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

If your goal is to invite visitors to share their own experience in a way that celebrates and respects their unique contribution to the institution, you need to design more constraints, not fewer, on visitor self-expression. It takes a special kind of cook, artist, or scientist to want to support the contributions of novices.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 22, 2005

They launched an annual fundraiser and gift-collecting drive for the children's hospital in their community (in WA). It was a huge success and it's now become an international drive , with toys and books going to children's hospitals all over. Free Books for Kids! Thanks to Musings of a Social Architect for this link.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2010

Three examples: In the late 1980s, the Brooklyn Children's Museum created an exhibit called Send a Letter to Snoopy. As Kathy McLean noted in Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions , while staff were afraid that typing on the typewriter would be too hard for some young children, "kids lined up to carefully and slowly type their letters."

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Depending on your budget, you may be able to get a popular artist, but you can also reach out to local musicians. Art show – Are there any local artists in your area? And, with their permission, you can even sell some of the pieces with a portion going back to the artist and the rest going to your organization.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was exhilarating to see them inspired to create their own meanings in response: lovers whispering together in alcoves, people of all ages writing and drawing on walls and post-its, children painting, everyone sitting rapt before screens. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

The Odditoreum is a temporary gallery for the summer school holiday in which the Powerhouse is displaying eighteen very odd objects alongside fanciful (and fictitious) labels written by children's book author Shaun Tan, schoolchildren, and visitors. I enjoyed listening to it (virtually, not at the museum). The answer is given, but separately.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

If your goal is to invite visitors to share their own experience in a way that celebrates and respects their unique contribution to the institution, you need to design more constraints, not fewer, on visitor self-expression. It takes a special kind of cook, artist, or scientist to want to support the contributions of novices.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Women hold these toxins in their body, and this is what they have to pass on to their children. We sang, we danced, and we celebrated what it means to have access to a resource that is so much more than just a resource. It is about a future that is possible for their children, and for future generations. Over 90 percent of U.S.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Staged a major exhibition celebrating the spectrum of what is in the library, public programs partners with The Moth. My focus is on how children learn science. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. here was a kind of proof that you don't have to choose."

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

So I just want to say, by the way, that artists have left a huge legacy around San Francisco during this pandemic. So the one on the right is from the National Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and that’s from the UK. Why is that? It’s really because no one asks them. And so like here is a bunch of stories.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Arts and Healing Network " Arts and Healing Network is an on-line resource celebrating the connection between art and healing. Art in Action Youth Leadership Training " Art in Action Youth Leadership Program uplifts and transforms the lives of young artists impacted by violence and poverty.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2016

Best Innovation in Graphics: This one goes to Lifeline Children’s Services for showing a giving pyramid inside the email noting how many gifts of each level they had received and still needed to get. Countdown for our children. Your gift today helps twice as many children. Let’s Celebrate. As you requested.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) works to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in the Middle East through aid, empowerment and education. This year they're celebrating 30 years of serving the region. Congratulations on celebrating MECA's 30th anniversary!

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

As we celebrate Women’s History Month, honoring the countless contributions women have made and continue to make in our country and around the world, it’s important to recognize the many organizations whose focus and missions revolve around helping women. Areas served: US. Kellogg Foundation. Areas served: Baltimore, Chicago, Hawai?i,

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