Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

This year, Media Cause wants to continue showing our support for the Hispanic community and thank them for their contributions that have helped shaped the US. Lauro Cavazos – First Hispanic person to hold a US cabinet position. Jean-Michel Basquiat – Renowned artist of Neo-expressionism. LaAmista, Inc.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. Founder Adam Braun started the organization with a dream of creating educational infrastructure in the communities that need it most and a deposit of just $25.

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Kindful

MAY 1, 2021

Mission: Adolescent Counseling Services (ACS) empowers youth in our community to find their way through social-emotional support and by building safe, accepting communities. Mission: Porter’s Call is a place where artists can find counsel, support, and encouragement, specifically attuned to their unique profession. Youth Homes.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

More involved in-person fundraisers or campaigns that require lots of resources can eat into your profit margins. It’s also much easier to target and personalize your message to different demographics, making your marketing strategy for fundraising far more effective. What are the different ways to fundraise online? Virtual craft fair.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Encourage your networks to set up personal fundraising pages through CauseVox and fundraise for your nonprofit. Pensacola Habitat For Humanity’s Women Build initiative encouraged folks to set up their own personal fundraising websites to raise money for the cause. Make some decisions about what to keep and what to chuck.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Consider also including gift cards to local coffee shops to allow the winner to try new spots in your community. You may receive items like artisan olive oil from a local shop, fresh bread from a bakery, and handmade candles from a nearby artist. Personal chef prize. Personal trainer voucher. Local goods basket.

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Qgiv

JULY 28, 2022

Artistic nonprofits should raise funds for National Poetry Month, especially literary nonprofits. It’s a month that remembers the struggles for equality faced by the LGBTQIA community and is also a celebration of those who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer, Intersex, or Asexual. June is Pride Month.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Purim is a Jewish holiday that brings a community together — and gives everyone an excuse to dress up on a day that isn’t Halloween. It’s also a time for gifts and new clothes, making this a great chance to raise funds or donations of new clothing, especially for children. Just keep those brushes out of your wine glass.) The Michael J.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Not only does a hand-written thank you note make a strong impression upon the receiver, but it also makes you a better social media manager because it’s a practice in creative arts – and as all we know, the best social media managers are creative artists. 10) Track the growth and ROI of your online communities.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 23, 2016

Your eyes just rolled and you’re not a cynical person. Stories like: A candid testimony of an nonprofit’s impact on a real person’s life. A volunteer sharing how investments of time became the fruits of change in their community. 1 Save the Children: “Most Shocking Second a Day” (2 min).

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Hundreds of unique, hand-made art postcards, containing words of compassion and solidarity are hand delivered to individuals and communities all over the world, bringing connection, hope, visibility and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence or repression. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2015

C3 educates children in schools, exhibits at community art crawls, and partners with other organizations to host community art projects, all using recycled materials to create works of art. QuickBooks helps keep the organization's accounting information available when board members or community members ask.

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2010

Want a way to make sure your nonprofit organization is represented -- artistically, that is? Beaconfire is (again) creating a nptech space at SXSW in Austin this March, and they want to make sure your cause is there in spirit , even if you can't be in person. Tags: community buzz nten member. Thank you, Beth, and Happy Birthday!

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

You need to explicitly say to your donor – look what you, Mr. Donor, helped create in our community. Or, Send them a survey and ask for their frank personal responses. Hungry children in Brazil? Enslaved children in the far east? Artists in your community? But have you ever asked? Elderly shut-ins in Boston?

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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

They present masterpieces by white male artists and innovations by white male scientists. Other reference points for museums--as community centers, as place-based narrative vehicles, as social or performance spaces--are suspect and often branded as "unprofessional." Not as humans, or artists, or scientists, or dancers.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

The site also features recommendations on things like which privacy settings to use on different devices, the ins and outs of parental controls , and basic rules for appropriate sharing for children on Facebook and other social media sites. We recommend this resource to libraries and any charity that works with children of any age.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum. These institutions are often more connected to their specific, local communities than more generic institutions. It's a Starbucks.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

My focus is on how children learn science. The goals include learning made personal, extension of experience onsite and online, and access for all learning and lifelong learning – underlying all of it is innovation in learning. When we first started babycastles, we had no idea there was any kind of community in NY for it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Call us social entrepreneurs, changemakers, social innovators, nonprofiteers, the delta sector, np techies, community benefit professionals, pick your poison, there’s a growing number of places we hang out - with one another. And I think it’s good that we’re building such a fun, vibrant community…but not good enough.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Children of the Lodz Ghetto ). Finally, because of their social content, they are good places for community dialogue programming and comment boards (for example, consider the Levine Museum of the New South's extensive use of sticky notes and talking circles). Everyone can have her own personal experience of history.

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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. Like many of the fundraisers in this section, your participants can create personal fundraising pages and gather pledges from their network, often tied to their performance during the tournament.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

ChildrensHealth : Children's hospitals always need toys this time of year. Shelters R being overwhelmed because people R losing homes/can't afford pets. ALSofGNY : Offer to make up Pre-Addressed, Stamped Envelopes/Cards for people with disabilities for them to send out for the holidays.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

It was a quintessential Davos moment that drives home the accessibility of world and corporate leaders to each other and to social entrepreneurs, religious figures, artists, and the leaders of non-governmental organisations and trade unions. One joked about the nine months of follow-up work resulting from the five days at this meeting.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 2, 2006

The Asthma Free School Zone aims to reduce asthma-related illness and absenteeism in school children by creating a protective school zone that is free of unhealthy and unnecessary environmental hazards. As an artist born of artist parents, I thought that seemed a heck of a lot easier than biostatistics. You won't get rich.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. On day 4 Inspectors made "top secret trails" --personalized maps of the museum--based on a comment about kids passing knowledge to each other. How did this project come about?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2009

At the time, I was a program director for an arts education program and a facilitator of career counseling workshops for artists. For the past ten years, I had focused my personal and professional life on the ultimate importance of creative expression, but something didn't feel right. Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2010

When I first started exploring the site, I assumed it was mostly a place for charismatic hipsters and a few star artists with enough social media savvy and clever video production capabilities to produce enticing pitches. There's no video, just a picture of the planned new community cultural center. The museum's page is much simpler.

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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. Useful for you personally or organizationally?

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

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. That’s the reality on the ground, as communities on the Gulf Coast try to recover from another hurricane. Devastation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." offers personal insights in opening up to new ideas and letting go of information, hierarchy and "proprietary" thinking. " This point really resonates with what Allison H.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

This is going to be a real treat for the community. And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Are they wanting to fund children’s programs?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

In other words, if you are a curious person, you will go to museums to learn new things. Different people in the same museum on the same day can have very different experiences--and memories of their experiences--based on the personal context in which they enter. The explorer is a curious person who loves to dig into things.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

My focus is on how children learn science. The goals include learning made personal, extension of experience onsite and online, and access for all learning and lifelong learning - underlying all of it is innovation in learning. When we first started babycastles, we had no idea there was any kind of community in NY for it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

If you are going to buy something anyway, as a gift, or for yourself as a decorative item, or for your home, then why not buy something that has the hope or a dream of another person embedded into it, and by purchasing that thing, you are joining with them to pull that forward.-- retail market. So anyway, it is really exciting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2006

The Storyteller and the Listener Online , edited by Holly Stevens of Oak Ridge, North Carolina, publishes two guest essays each month which explore, "the role of story and narrative in peacemaking, healing, bridge building and reconciliation processes in communities around the world." She's an idea person, and it shows in her posts.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

A Crowd-Curated Exhibition (Shelley Bernstein), the Tech Virtual Test Zone (me), along with a new participatory research project, Children of the Lodz Ghetto (David Klevan), to talk about our lessons and struggles working with the public to create "museum-quality" exhibitions and research projects. This was particularly true for Click!,

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