The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Effective outreach strategies should focus on connecting with local AAPI groups, leaders, and community centers. Curate an exhibit of paintings, photographs, sculptures or crafts by AAPI artists. Some ideas for potential speakers and honorees: Local AAPI elected officials, such as city council members or state representatives.

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Qgiv

MARCH 25, 2024

Foster community engagement at your benefit concert as local musicians, volunteers, and donors all gather in one place for a cause they care about. Sponsors can help you pad out your budget and start long-term partnerships with a for-profit partner. A good place to start looking for performers is with local musicians.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 16, 2023

The best way to get people excited about your non-profit is to sell out your fundraising event. Or if you’re hosting an art show with several artists, give sponsors access to one-on-one sales meetings with each artist so they can get the chance to make their own connections. But selling out an event isn’t easy.

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Whole Whale

JULY 17, 2024

This builds a list of people that you can reach out to again the next year, getting local champions involved. Restaurant Partnership Team up with with a local restaurant that’s interested in helping to support your cause. You can charge per team, create a fun reward system, and even get local businesses involved.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Give people that instant gratification after pledging money to your nonprofit with a free drink ticket at your benefit dinner, or having their question answered by the CEO for $5, or by having them walk out of an auction with a painting donated by a local artist.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

When I started working with Associations a decade ago, we as an industry were many years behind other for-profit industries in terms of technology. The best thing overall is that Nimble AMS empowers non-profits to do more good with the most up-to-date and innovative technology around! Fun fact about Ajay. Logan Henley, Lead Sr.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

However, with the rise of COVID-19, festivals all over the world were put on hold, and the events industry, artists, and festival vendors were forced to find other ways of sharing their passions with the world. . An event of this caliber could really succeed if the profits were donated to charity or attached to a cause.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Have a local artist create custom screen prints for special events. You'll need your artists' permission to sell items with their name, but most artists love having custom art – and are happy to split the profit from the sales with you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The challenge for every business, organization, and nonprofit or for-profit company is that the world of social media is like the Wild Wild West. There are over 200,000 professional artists in the US — and a bunch of them have problems the techies could help solve. What artistic problems need a dose of geek teamwork?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits. The Waffle Shop is a cafe and live streaming TV channel that serves a diverse audience of late night club-goers and locals in an urban neighborhood. Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA).

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

However, with the rise of COVID-19, festivals all over the world were put on hold, and the events industry, artists, and festival vendors were forced to find other ways of sharing their passions with the world. . An event of this caliber could really succeed if the profits were donated to charity or attached to a cause.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

Since moving to Santa Fe, he has developed New Mexico Creates , an economic development initiative that creates market links for New Mexico artists and artisans. They're catalysts for economic development for cultural workers to develop enterprises that are either for-profit, or not-for-profit, it can be either, that generate employment.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The program is an experimental playground that bridges artists, students, chefs, comedians, hairdressers, bartenders, dancers, wrestlers and even tattoo artists to produce a community-led event. The value of participatory experiences is epitomized in FIGMENT , a free, creative, participatory, non-profit, community art event.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2010

I missed one of my favorite local non-profit’s fundraising events while traveling last week. Local artists donate hand-made bowls, restaurants provide the soup and (if you are lucky) another business provides freshly made breads and desserts. Author: Amber Wobschall. What is empty bowls?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 5, 2016

Yesterday, the local paper in Santa Cruz published a great article about my new book, The Art of Relevance. When writing The Art of Relevance , I knew I wanted to share a bit of his story and the ways artists negotiate the relevance of their own work. I loved the piece. Here's that chapter. The work is the work.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Jarrett Fuller powerfully writes that minimalism: “erases the vernacular of local cultures and the plurality of human experience — race, gender, class — reinforcing the myth that design decisions are neutral while creating aesthetic hierarchies of good and bad design.” . The problem with minimalism has been studied by many designers.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2013

TCG is the industry association for non-profit theaters, the way AAM is for museums. When we work with diverse collaborators, from opera singers and ukelele players to knitters and graffiti artists, we catalyze new partnerships and relationships that make our community stronger and more cohesive. We believe in fearless experimentation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Instead of serving everyone at a single location, consider a catered meal delivered to each of your donors from a local restaurant. Try reaching out to local musicians or up-and-coming performers, and you might be surprised by the response — many individuals love the chance to create awareness for good causes. 10) Hybrid concerts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

I'll get a chance to see Miles again at this year's NTC Conference and some lucky local nonprofit in DC will have Miles as a volunteer for the NTC Day of Service ! Before making the jump to working for non-profit, I was on the other side of the fence, working for London's largest charitable funder, which had an annual budget of some $31m.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

I think at the national level we're always going to have The New York Times , CNN, and The Washington Post to do national investigations, but what we really are threatened to lose in the next year to five years is local investigations and local reporting. Obviously, local civic journalism is incredibly important to me.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy. Are you hiring locally? Are you using local suppliers?

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

See how non-profits can navigate the coronavirus here. Most people have a trail somewhere near where they live, so encourage your peer-to-peer fundraiser participants to do their hike locally and share their amazing pictures on social media. Ask local businesses or supports to donate prizes for tournament winners.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

This year, Forum One took home one platinum, four gold, and six silver awards in the categories of cultural, non-profit, science, health, and school/university websites, as well as digital branded content, arts and culture virtual experiences, and family and kids apps and software.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 22, 2015

It’s little wonder, therefore, that many successful NPOs uses this marketing element to their advantage on their websites, whether it be in the form of a simple appeal for donations, a clip showing all the good things an organization is accomplishing or one that demonstrates that there are real and dire needs to be addressed locally or globally.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

And, instead of limiting your events just to those in the local area or to those who have the means to travel, you can actually open them to anyone on the internet! You can procure items that encourage residents to explore the city in a fun way, such as local restaurant gift certificates or tickets to museums or sports games.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

I am the CEO and co-founder of World of Good , and also World of Good Development Organization , which is our non-profit sister organization. The mission of World of Good, as a company, is to create the largest distribution system for fair trade, handmade items from artists' and women's cooperatives around the world.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 2, 2021

If you have some talented artists, knitters, jewelry designers, and candle-makers in your youth group, consider hosting a craft sale at your church. Gather all of your artisans and ask them if they’d be willing to participate in a craft sale and donate part of the profits as a fundraiser. Team up with local businesses.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Every business, whether it be for-profit or nonprofit business, is usually created for purpose. That purpose might be to grow financial well for a for-profit business. “Well, thanks to this $20,000, there are 12 local artists who have a place to hang their artwork.” Does that make sense? So you raised $20,000.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 1, 2011

Jennifer is a certified coach, writer, artist, yogini, and the founder of Artizen Coaching. Jennifer Lee, Right-Brain Business Plan: How I Have Fun, Do Good Since 2005 I’ve volunteered off and on at a local non-profit called C.E.O. Accenture, Sony, and HP, helping leaders and organizations manage change. Women here in Oakland.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Due to the fact that the focus of these media corporations is on creating profits rather than social justice, the many answers that we demand as conscious global citizens become conditional. Our mission is to strengthen the voice of activist artists - 'Artivists' - while raising public awareness for social global causes."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

I strongly believe in the triple bottom line -- which is people, planet, and profit. I think that you have to check locally to see whether or not your area provides services for that, but it's something that you could do locally as well. So there's that part of it, the local, personal interaction that you get.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Editors’ note: This article is from the Summer 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly , “Owning Our Economy, Owning Our Future. ”. 9</sup).

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Most giving circles are local, low-tech operations. Each local group organizes regular community dinners where project leads make short presentations to the diner. The USA Projects platform supports individual artists. Giving circles aren't exactly new, but they have grown in popularity in the last 5 years.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

I've now documented women's lives in 40 countries, over the past 10 or 12 years, and everywhere I went, I found women who were helping each other, local women. BB: What advice do you have for artists who want to use their art for social change? I am a photojournalist and have just published my fourth book, Women Who Light The Dark.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

Before I left for Peru, I did an interview for the Big Vision Podcast with Jonah Sachs, the Principal of Free Range Studios , an advertising and marketing firm with offices in Washington DC and Berkeley, California that specializes in non-profits and socially responsible businesses.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2007

Now I work at a history-focused museum with a similar mentality; as a for-profit insititution, we operate more like other guest service businesses (theme parks, restaurants) than collecting institutions. Ignore the big guys and focus on community-based or local art.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? I just want to dispel the myth that we are not activists and that we are not artists. First of all, who identifies with the word "activism"? Who identifies as an activist? Just so I can see that, and that's fine; you don't have to be an activist to be in this room.

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