The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Curate an exhibit of paintings, photographs, sculptures or crafts by AAPI artists. Voices That Inspire: Welcoming AAPI Luminaries to Your Stage When planning your AAPI Heritage Month event, consider inviting influential speakers and community leaders from within the Asian American and Pacific Islander community to participate.

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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. As a lifelong believer in the power of story — and other creative work – to advance social change, these days I’m spending a lot of time trying to prove it. Why this story, now?

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Creating Cultures and Practices for Racial Equity: A Toolbox for Advancing Racial Equity for Arts and Cultural Organizations , by Race Forward This toolkit aims to help artists, arts advocates, culture bearers, and cultural workers to imagine, plan, and implement racial equity strategies in their organizations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public.

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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. In medias res Start your story in the middle, without providing context or background, to draw your reader quickly into your narrative.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

As an educated, well cultured and traveled individual with an amazing life story, her empathy and passion allows her to tell amazing stories and inspire hearts to give. Layne is also a keynote speaker; engaging audiences about the importance of breaking down barriers and the power of finding your voice.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

If a news story is breaking when you get to work in the morning, and it is related to your mission or your programs, write up a quick two-paragraph summary of or commentary about the breaking news story, add a link to the original source, and then distribute your blog post to your communities. Share Stories from the Field.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

For example, you can start your prompt with “Write a heartfelt story for an 8-yr old about…” or “Provide a never-heard-before solution for boomers about…” Add personality : Don’t be afraid to give the AI an attitude or tone.

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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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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals. A charity combating homelessness should feature stories of providing shelter, not just cute mascots. A relatable human voice connects. Personal stories, donor benefits, time sensitivity? Helping real people should be the star.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 22, 2021

She draws on rich and instructive stories of clients, leaders, artists, and athletes. Her previous bestselling book is, Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master your Leadership Presence. And, she focuses on three foundational tenets: s elf-care, self-awareness, and personal agency.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

If a news story is breaking when you get to work in the morning, and it is related to your mission or your programs, write up a quick two-paragraph summary of or commentary about the breaking news story, add a link to the original source, and then distribute your blog post to your communities. Share Stories from the Field.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

The articles in the March issue of the NTEN: Change journal capture stories of nonprofits in transition; they’re transforming from one stage to another, using technology to fuel their campaigns, initiatives, and to optimize their day-to-day work. >>Read You can’t rush nature, but you can set yourself up for success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2013

But getting into the habit of regular tweeting, Facebooking, or experimenting with new tools like Instagram is another story. Amplify Your Voice: If you are sharing articles suggested your staff or colleagues “read this,” switch the channel to something like Twitter.

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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. 4) Read more books. Reading books does that.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 18, 2017

This month, we opened a new exhibition at the MAH, Lost Childhoods: Voices of Santa Cruz County Foster Youth and Foster Youth Museum (brief video clip from opening night here ). it uses art, history, artifacts, and storytelling to illuminate a big human story and an urgent social issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Using the internet and social media as a vehicle to tell stories is an approachable, inexpensive, and effective way to engage your audience (Check out NTEN's social media and storytelling web seminars series for the juicy details.) These artists are all great examples of how media can be used for social change - as a vehicle for storytelling.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2021

She draws on rich and instructive stories of clients, leaders, artists, and athletes. Her previous bestselling book is, Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master your Leadership Presence. And, she focuses on three foundational tenets: s elf-care, self-awareness, and personal agency.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

She draws on rich and instructive stories of clients, leaders, artists, and athletes. Her previous bestselling book is, Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master your Leadership Presence. And, she focuses on three foundational tenets: s elf-care, self-awareness, and personal agency.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 30, 2020

She draws on rich and instructive stories of clients, leaders, artists, and athletes. Her previous bestselling book is, Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master your Leadership Presence. And, she focuses on three foundational tenets: s elf-care, self-awareness, and personal agency.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

She draws on rich and instructive stories of clients, leaders, artists, and athletes. Her previous bestselling book is, Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master your Leadership Presence. And, she focuses on three foundational tenets: s elf-care, self-awareness, and personal agency.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

If a news story is breaking when you get to work in the morning, and it is related to your mission or your programs, write up a quick two-paragraph summary of or commentary about the breaking news story, add a link to the original source, and then distribute your blog post to your communities. Share Stories from the Field.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

She draws on rich and instructive stories of clients, leaders, artists, and athletes. Her previous bestselling book is, Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master your Leadership Presence. And, she focuses on three foundational tenets: s elf-care, self-awareness, and personal agency.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 1, 2012

Schimmel's departure was seen as the final confirmation of Deitch and Broad's populist, celebrity-driven approach to exhibitions, and that concerned many critics , artists , and museum directors in the art world. Attendance has increased in the past two years from 150,000 to 400,000 annually. They are not dollars. They are not deliveries.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Youth Voices: Creating with Purpose. Launched in 2006, Adobe Youth Voices is designed to provide youth in underserved areas with the critical skills they need to become active and engaged members of their communities and the world at large. The Bronx Guild in New York brings you the story of a young woman coming out to her family.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Plus, we wanted to share all the winners in one video, created with Adobe Voice, a free tool from Adobe. Thanks to TechSoup, we're able to save time and money, putting more of our budget and efforts toward the artists our audiences want to see on stage." Check out their submissions below. Gold Prize Winner.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2016

Over the course of our 24-week voter engagement campaign, NSD hired 60 artists to create 60 “Vote Here/Vote Aqui” signs. The artists came from more than 20 different Philadelphia neighborhoods. Involve Artists from the Very Beginning. The artists who participated felt a greater sense of connection to their communities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Last week fifty people squeezed into the Marcus Bookstore in Oakland to hear young women share their stories, their rants, and their issues from a new collection of women's writing, We Got Issues! After collecting the stories, they commissioned a team of young female writers to create over 80 monologues for the WGI! We Got Issues!

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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. What makes this section distinct?

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2019

She draws on rich and instructive stories of clients, leaders, artists, and athletes. Her previous bestselling book is, Own the Room: Discover Your Signature Voice to Master your Leadership Presence. And, she focuses on three foundational tenets: s elf-care, self-awareness, and personal agency.

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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. Our archeology did not aim to uncover the hidden voice of my grandmother, but instead to begin an ongoing practice of recreation.

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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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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Five years later, project director Dr. Piotr Bienkowski's final report for Our Museum tells a different story. Different External Voices Bring Different Skills to the Table Community partners, artists, peers, and funders all play different roles as collaborators and contributors to participatory institutions.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. That’s why we partner with fire sculptors, knitters, graffiti artists, and bonsai growers. They are artists whose experience deserves a home in our institution alongside painters, photographers, and sculptors.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Her greatest work, The Death of Cleopatra , is now housed at the Smithsonian. Roxane Gay.

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VisionLink

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can''t capture, and I found it fascinating. My second story is about love and loss. My third story is about death.

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