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Google Doodle celebrates the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth

The Verge

The video features art from artist Loveis Wise, music produced by Elijah Jamal, and the poem is read by LeVar Burton. Although slavery officially ended with the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, it wasn’t until June 19th, 1865 that the federal order reached Galveston, Texas on the western edge of the Confederacy.

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Ayoken raises $1.4M to grow its NFT marketplace for creatives

TechCrunch

Ayoken founder and CEO, Joshua King , told TechCrunch that the marketplace is a bridge between fans and artists, and gives supporters a sense of ownership in the success of their idols. NFT holders will also get other perks like access to unreleased music and exclusive live events by the creatives.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Bloomerang

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Texas Instruments Foundation. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art’s grantmaking activity is focused on serving the needs of artists by funding the institutions that support them.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Kindful

The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Texas Instruments Foundation. The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Art’s grantmaking activity is focused on serving the needs of artists by funding the institutions that support them.

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Daily Crunch: London-based SumUp pins $8.5B valuation with $624M debt-equity round 

TechCrunch

Keep Austin weird — and subterranean: With a tunnel or two under its belt, Elon Musk’s The Boring Company plans to build a corridor under Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas in Austin. Carv, which came to venture capital by way of Kickstarter, claims its product can be retrofitted to any boot. You can sign up here.). Big Tech Inc.

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Kickstarter: Funding Creativity in a New (Old) Way

Museum 2.0

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. In one case, a man in Texas donated $1,000 to the campaign.

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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

After graduating with a BFA in drama & music from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ellen spent ten years bringing joy to audiences nightly as one of only ten lead performers in the longest running musical revue in the world—San Francisco’s “Beach Blanket Babylon.”