The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes Elevating Latino Voices: How Nonprofits Can Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month From the rhythmic cadence of salsa music to the inspiring tales of pioneers who’ve blazed trails in fields as diverse as literature, science, and politics, the Latino community has enriched the American mosaic in countless ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

But this year in my current role leading the Active Voice Lab for Story & Strategy I did more listening than screening. During the first 10 years at Active Voice we commissioned outside firms and social scientists to give us qualitative feedback about our process and our partners’ satisfaction. Who are we trying to reach?

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Media Cause

JULY 29, 2022

Creativity is often associated with being an artist. If you’re not an artist by profession, it’s easy to tell yourself that you don’t have room to be creative at work, but that’s not true. Being creative means thinking outside of the box and allowing your imagination to have a voice. Anyone can be creative, it’s a mindset.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2013

” It isn’t a matter of finding the time, it is a matter of making the time and starting with some steps. Have a conversation with your social media team and ask these questions: What do you spend time doing now that you could do better via social? It’s not that you don’t think it is a good idea.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

Blink Date — Is creating a voice-first dating app that matches users for 10-minute voice conversations, after which they can hope to make a match. Snap says the startups will take part in a curriculum that is led by tech founders, investors, artists, athletes and more. The company is based in the Netherlands.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

You can listen to all of the interviews, plus 55 more conversations with Big Visionaries on iTunes. Favianna Rodriguez Activist printmaker and digital artist. World Pulse is a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. Naomi Natale Founding Artist, One Million Bones.

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The Verge

JANUARY 31, 2021

On November 10th , a Facebook employee sent out an unusual email to an unknown outside party, hoping to arrange a conversation about how the platform moderated against anti-Semitism. “We Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Classifying the term as hate speech would end up stifling those criticisms — at least on Facebook.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. The festival, a one-time icon of artistic rebellion, is now the largest arts gathering in the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

Lifting my arms and voices to say “I FAILED, NOW LETS MOVE ON.”Led Last Friday, Media Impact Funders brought together technologists, journalists, philanthropists and innovators for a day-long conversation on the future of media and tech innovation. Best moment of #MIForum ?Lifting ”Led by @ kanter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

." ~ Caroline Lovell, Founder, Traveling Postcards Traveling Postcards facilitates the creation of handmade art postcards that are hand delivered all over the world to bringing awareness 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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Forum One

MARCH 23, 2023

Watch a conversation with NMAAHC leaders about this collaboration. Talking About Race has been widely referenced and shared as a compelling, timely, and actionable as people across the country seek to educate themselves and others and have candid, overdue, and often difficult conversations.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

We converse with the team from the Ashoka Empathy Intiative and DataKind demonstrates how data can, in fact, save lives. Plus, check out 15 Minutes to Better Website SEO , and the NTEN Voices section: community tweets, our transition to become a community-driven organization, sustainability, and more!

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The Verge

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Artists can use the free program to make 3D models in addition to 2D creations, with all kinds of textures, filters, and lighting options. I’m not even a Spotify Premium subscriber (I’m an Apple Music loyalist), but I often pull up the Spotify Windows app just to see recommendations for new artists and songs. They’re usually good.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

‘Real people, real voices’ is the slogan Beams has come up with for its app-based alternative to switching on (and dialling around) talk radio. (Or, “We want to build innovative solutions for this — to help people enjoy audio recordings and hearing another person’s voice in a simple way.”

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

They shine a spotlight on new voices, innovative ideas, and make the communities around them better. They go above and beyond to drive thought-provoking conversations about data across all social channels. Tableau Ambassadors teach and share while fostering a positive and supportive space within the data community.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Designed to have a short conversation with visitors about herself, she runs on a proprietary “digital brain” and studies my expressions via webcam. I’m at home, staring at the future face of the metaverse and trying valiantly not to think about memes from a TV show known for its exploration of ethics and humanity.

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The Verge

MARCH 29, 2022

of the artists that are making music and putting it out there cannot survive off of streaming income. Even if you are a big artist — even for me — I might get some really high streaming numbers on a few songs, but it’s only a few songs. Yes, as proprietor of a label or as an artist yourself. It’s something like 0.008.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

I'm not usually that interested in museum politics, but this soap opera is too big to ignore, especially as the conversation has shifted over the last few weeks to something I care a lot about: populism. LA MOCA has indeed been front page news, especially in the art world. They are not dollars. They are not deliveries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2008

In 1995, I remember a group of arts organizations and artists on Arts Wire marked World Aids Day/ A Day Without Art by turning the gray backgrounds on our web sites to black. Published by Global Voices bloggers on World Aids Day 2008. Published by Global Voices bloggers on World Aids Day 2008. View Larger Map.

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The Verge

APRIL 14, 2022

Grossman: It was literally part of our first conversation about the project. If you’re an artist and you have a game design idea, if you’re a tester and you have a game design idea or a writing idea or whatever — that the team is kind of small and intimate enough that everybody feels ownership. He said he wanted to do that.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Warner Music Group and Twitch reached an agreement that’ll bring some of the music giant’s artists to Twitch through new channels, as well as exclusive original programming on the livestreaming platform. I thought I heard her authentic voice on Speak , her debut album, but I suppose I can accept a podcast, too.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. And pop culture icons, from basketball players to rock stars , are making highly visible commentary with their clothes and voices. Are there civic organizations in your area that are hosting conversations? Where do museums fit in?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

We attentively respond to requests and purposefully use different modes of feedback to inform program design from our comment board, social media outlets, conversations and observations both inside and outside the museum, creative feedback at events such as our Show and Tell Booth and online visitor surveys specific to our programs.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Despite the long hours and creative details that their designs entail, the creations of Méndez and other artists in the community often go underappreciated. To this day, the artists have received neither a response nor any compensation. Back pain, finger pain, and eyestrain are common.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. It’s not about building a more effective ATM — sorry, “donor list” — it’s about cultivating relationships with your most passionate supporters, giving them ways to speak in their own voice and connecting them with other people.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2011

Without an explicit "I" voice, the museum's perspective on humanity is oblique to say the least. Welcome to Pine Point is a kind of virtual museum exhibition about the town, told from the perspective of Michael Simons, an artist who grew up in the nearby town of Yellowknife and visited Pine Point as a boy.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

From the perspective of our work, it really means that the more we amplify different voices, the more we are doing our job. Joan of the Stockyards", by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Lear DeBessonet, the founder and Artistic Director of Stillpoint Productions. The festival's programming will embrace a, "culture of conversation."

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Last week, we looked at the first section of Visitor Voices , on Talk-backs, and came to the conclusion that comment boards and the like are functionally conversations, and that their design, therefore, should focus on encouraging positive, lively, thoughtful, engaged discussion. The accompaniment is a strange one. Share the love.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2007

The collection is disaggregated, grouped by floor (Painting and Sculpture 1) rather than artist, movement, time period, or geography. Most featured Name of Artist, Name of Piece, Year of Execution, Materials. How long did it take this artist to make this piece? Did the artist like it? Did the artist like it?

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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. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

But that would be like confusing the image in your bathroom mirror with another person and thinking that youre having a conversation when actually youre just talking to yourself. You want their voices in the conversation from the beginning, understanding where human oversight and accountability are in any process.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. why not museums?

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What if we could have a conversation about fundraising strategy with David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy a leading marketing/PR firm and deemed the ‘Father of Advertising’? A relatable human voice connects. The ads were hailed as beautiful, artistic, and innovative. Highlight growth in conversions.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. We experimented with many different forms of visitor participation throughout the building, trying to balance social and individual, text-based and artistic, cerebral and silly.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

As a representative of an organization with a global mission, it is important that I am a citizen of the world who is well-traveled, well-informed, and can converse with absolutely anyone. I also enjoyed a presentation by Alice Black, Deputy Director of the Design Museum in London.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

As a representative of an organization with a global mission, it is important that I am a citizen of the world who is well-traveled, well-informed, and can converse with absolutely anyone. I also enjoyed a presentation by Alice Black, Deputy Director of the Design Museum in London.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

They shine a spotlight on new voices, innovative ideas, and make the communities around them better. They go above and beyond to drive thought-provoking conversations about data across all social channels. Tableau Ambassadors teach and share while fostering a positive and supportive space within the data community.

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