NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The Ameritas Inspire Series honored those in the nonprofit industry who have made a difference in their community. DSNNN won $2,500 for their collaborative art project and organization. The UnchARTed Waters event empowers artists with developmental disabilities to express their creativity through movement, motion, and wonder! .

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it. Every Saturday, the curatorial team at Elsewhere , a living museum in downtown Greensboro, NC, reviews the project proposals of its artists-in-residence.

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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. That''s expected.

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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. It's a working document, and we mean to put it to work planning new projects with our partners. But we weren't explicitly making those goals public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

This will be an interactive session with real and remote audience participation. Jonny Goldstein will do real time illustrations of the ideas swirling around the session which will be projected live and that will help us move towards a common understanding and enable us to share an artifact with others. What’s new? What works?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2017

This is the ninth in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. Working with creative people taught me to think like an artist: observe, explore, dive in, look out. We develop the projects. We develop the ideas.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Photo by CLoé Zarifian, MAH Photo Intern We're working with a guest curator, Wes Modes , on an upcoming experimental project at our museum. Wes is an artist, and this is his first time running a museum exhibition development process. How can people--staff, volunteers, community members--help make this project better?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

For comparison’s sake — Apple’s Ping had 2,000 artists two months out of the gate.)&# I’ve been playing around with the new social platform this morning and wanted to share some of my early reactions. (So Not just to broadcast, but to have a conversation, share ideas, and provide context. Facebook Requirements.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 12, 2011

project will focus on apps for arts organizations, with a practical. This was a great way for the students to contribute to their community. artist's influences and the exhibit, in the artist's own words. For example, YBCA's audiences loved having access to artists' own unfiltered words. Learn More.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

In Philadelphia, many polling places are difficult to find, hidden deep in the recesses of schools, churches, and community centers. Here’s My Chance (HMC), a creative agency that works exclusively with nonprofits and socially responsible businesses, produced the project. Involve Artists from the Very Beginning.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2013

In the course of the conversation, Devon Smith, a social media consultant from Threespot, started talking the problem of arts organizations that are no longer relevant or useful to their communities. Watch the two-minute conversation between Devon and Clayton Lord starting at 14:25 in the video below.] Devon didn''t mince words.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

National education organizations and individual teachers are developing relevant curriculum resources, including the #FergusonSyllabus project initiated by Dr. Marcia Chatelain. Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. There is hardly a community in the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

Chalk up my vote for 2011’s “Best Debut Artist” and “Best Supporting Actor.”. MiACLU is a one-of-a-kind project born from this framework. MiACLU is a new entry point – amplified by ethnic media and personalized through community outreach—to engage this population on the key issues that affect them.

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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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

We were discussing the potential for cultural organizations to have significant impact across communities: on planning, health, education, and quality of life. Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. Market Street is a central artery of San Francisco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

In the Networked Nonprofit “ Learning Loops , we illustrated how networked nonprofits do a real-time, lighter assessment process as they engage their community and make improvements and adjustments along the way. I didn’t understand it until I read the conversation on Twitter.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2013

We have five open positions in Community Programs and one in Exhibitions. These are unpaid, part-time internships in which you will make a significant contribution to our work, and at the same time, learn a heck of a lot about participatory design and community engagement. Participatory Performing Artist-in-Residence program.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

We have witnessed and experienced incredible moments of transformation: homeless people and history buffs working together on historic restoration, graffiti artists and knitters collaborating on new artistic projects, visitors from different backgrounds making collages, or sculptures, or dance performances together.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

Is this a research project? Is it a conversation? In almost all cases, museums assure me that they want to be in conversation, that they want to be responsive, that they want to “really hear” what people think. We welcome the participation and ideas of others in this important conversation. Let’s start there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Please note that because the conversations take place over six years, some people's work and lives have changed. Organizer, Bakesale for Japan listen Naomi Natale, Founding Artist, One Million Bones listen Halle Butvin, Founder and Director, One Mango Tree listen Carinne Brody, Doctoral Candidate in Public Health at UC Berkeley.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2017

This is the eleventh in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ( MAH )'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. We had 2,000 t-shirts to give away, 850 balls to drop, and over a hundred artists, accordionists, salsa dancers, taiko drummers, and bubble ladies ready to go.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They were there for artist talks. They were there for project brainstorming. It encourages process-driven performances and art projects. It opens up new conversations about the work of art in our communities. They live their mission, working in questions and projects rather than exhibitions and programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2008

Last week I taught a social media workshop for artists and arts nonprofits and did some research on different arts organizations using social media effectively. The Brooklyn Museum kept coming up as a stellar example, particularly its Click Exhibition (Nina Simon wrote an analysis of the project here ). did Shelley have a dog.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. The result, Our Museum , is an extraordinary funding program with a focus on community participation. didn't mince words. Here are my three top takeaways.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

Sarah has worked at the Walker since 1992 and is currently the Director of Education and Community Programs. It's the ability for me to work with my CFO to be able to budget and align the right kinds of resources for new projects. Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Closest thing right now is the attention stream created for the nptech tag community - although the focus is on one slice of the nonprofit sector) There are a few adhoc decentralized nooks and crannies in the blogosphere where you can find listings of nonprofit blogs or aggregated content of interest to nonprofits. Bloglines (nptech account).

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 27, 2011

McKinney , Project Specialist. It's a conversation !" But what do you do when that conversation goes sour? That protection comes in the form of communicating effectively with your social media friends and followers. When an artist became angry about having her jewelry designs stolen by the company, she blogged about it.

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2012

We have a great community of learners that ask and answer questions and our videos are being translated by volunteers all over the world. Learning is increasingly global and fluid and the fact that cross-institutional initiatives such as the Google Art Project and Europeana are rare, points to how much work still needs to be done.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

She is also a registered yoga teacher and plans to have a finished memoir project by the end of this year. Supporting art and artists, writers and books. She writes for Elephant Journal, The Nervous Breakdown, Jack Move Magazine and has been published in a variety of other places both online and in print. Feeding people.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

In this post, she writes about Experimonth, an intriguing set of crowd-sourced projects that connect scientists with research participants in surprising ways. I met many new people and learned a lot about technology and community, but the learning wasn''t the point, enjoying the resolutions was. The project blew away our expectations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

"You cannot run a community if you're not informed. Journalism is really the act of informing communities so that they can make better decisions, that is part of the public service, informing communities so that together we can know where else we need to help." --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us Britt Bravo: Why is this necessary?

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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. Capital projects are sexy and exciting, but they are also finite and physical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Networked Leadership : Jodie Tonita, Social Transformation Project. This approach focuses on listening and looking at the infrastructure and DNA of the conservation community with humility, imagination, and curiosity. After projects were funded, we’d continue the virtuous circle by returning to listening mode.

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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. We''re seen as a trusted and desirable partner to diverse cultural practitioners in our community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Please note that because the conversations take place over five years, some people's work and lives have changed. listen read Jessica Prentice, Co-Owner, Three Stone Hearth: A Community Supported Kitchen. You'll be able to scroll through, and play the shows that peak your interest.

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