Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Arts and Cultural organizations are capitalizing on this giving movement by creating a clear call-to-action attached to customized campaigns. Contributors want to know the results of your campaign and partake in your celebrations. Don’t let it pass without acting and have fun building your Arts & Culture campaign.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

Auctions are a classic fundraising event that can not only raise an impressive amount of money but also provide your supporters with a much needed night of fun. Whether you choose the Roaring 20’s or want to host an 80’s event, decade-themed fundraising auctions are some of the most fun occasions to both plan and attend.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 25, 2023

It’s been a rough couple years for arts-based nonprofits. As pandemic aid has run out without patrons returning in pre-2020 numbers, many arts nonprofit across the country have had to shrink programming, cut staff, or close altogether. This includes summer art camps, museums, theaters, art galleries, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

  I've written about  how nonprofits can use it , including arts organizations like the Brooklyn Museum as chronicled on Shelley Bernstein's blog. Back in December, the Brooklyn Museum started to experiment with FourSquare running a promotion to get people to check in and get a free membership. 

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

The events are informal, personal, and fun, but our feedback mechanism--onsite and post-event surveys--not so much. This past Friday, we experimented with a new feedback format at an evening event focused on poetry and book arts. Maybe this is good fodder for a future Museum 2.0 We got more feedback. you tell me.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Seb Chan has a lovely, long interview up at Fresh+New with Helen Whitty about the Powerhouse Museum's new mini-exhibition, the Odditoreum. The Odditoreum is another wrinkle in the study of visitors' understanding and interpretation of authenticity in museums. I enjoyed listening to it (virtually, not at the museum).

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JANUARY 13, 2012

Hold a Santa-Con celebration to get in the Christmas spirit, get pictures of people's paint-smeared faces at Holi, take advantage of when neighborhood kids show up to trick-or-treat at your door. Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. If you're a museum, zoo, or aquarium: 19. Navy Imagery 22.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

It's not every day that a visitor buys pizza for everyone in the museum. Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. The museum itself was well-integrated into the event. Or that visitors form a spontaneous "laugh circle" on the floor. Online to onsite migration isn't always easy.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

In January, Blackbaud employees from all ov the world rallied together to celebrate our cultural customers through our #showyourculture initiative. Blackbaud employees love arts & culture: Not really surprising – Blackbaud has been working with arts and cultural organizations for over 30 years and has over 2200 cultural customers.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Last Friday night, my museum hosted a fabulous (in my biased opinion) event called Race Through Time. We created Race Through Time in partnership with a local networking group called Santa Cruz Next , whose primary aim is to support and celebrate ways that young professionals can and are changing our community for the better.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

However, that doesn’t mean you have to miss out on the fun. Participants may improve their painting abilities, try their hand at some knitting, or do whatever other sort of art they like without having to leave the comfort of their own home. Why not consider comedy, dancing, theater, or even an interview with a celebrity?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

The "Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images" exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art manages to both celebrate and betray fair use at the same time. Boing Boing asks: This is a riddle: does the Magritte exhibition celebrate fair use, or deny it? It's really out of our hands.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2016

At every talk I give about The Art of Relevance , no matter the audience, there's one question I always hear. Librarians and museum directors, park managers and theater producers all want to know: how do you deal with insiders who resist change? But it's not all fun. These insiders may be fellow staff members. The fear is real.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

As Peter wrote: If someone enjoys Arts Event A because it’s social, informal, energetic, fun, and hip, why should we expect her to also enjoy Arts Event B if B is individual, formal, quiet, serious, and traditional (at least in its presentation, if not artistically)? I employ the parallel strategy all the time in my work.

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Everyaction

JULY 12, 2018

At Preservation Hall , catch nightly acoustic concerts celebrating the city's musical legacy with some of its finest performers. Voodoo Museum. At this intimate Frenchmen Street bar, catch one of two live music sets (at 6pm and 10pm) seven days a week, and don't forget to stop by the outdoor art market next door. Swamp Tours.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2010

Hosting a session on Monday at 2pm on Design for Participation with participatory design gurus Kathleen McLean and Dan Spock, along with research extraordinaire Kris Morrissey and participatory art rockstar Mark Allen. The king of idiosyncratic museums. The Brewery Art Colony. It will blow your mind, frustrate and delight you.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 17, 2011

The 18 students being recognized at the annual graduation celebration will have completed all requirements during the spring, summer, and fall semesters of 2011. Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona. Marine Corps. So, sue me! Fear not, nonprofit professionals! All You Need is Love.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 14, 2007

I spent the weekend in New Mexico celebrating two important days with my parents: Mother's Day and my dad's receiving the Allen Stamm Humanitarian of the Year award from the United Way of Santa Fe County. Tom Aageson New Mexico Santa Fe art humanitarian

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Gamifying fundraising turns your campaign into a fun experience for your fundraising teams and individual supporters. These fun features spur friendly competition between supporters as they vie for the top spot, creating a sense of fundraising urgency. Badges are fun to collect and can motivate supporters to reach your highest goals.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Today, Museum 2.0 is celebrating its second birthday. I started the Museum 2.0 blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 I started the Museum 2.0 blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

Tenacious, Intelligent, Resourceful, Passionate, Insightful, Caring, Determined, and Fun are among the hundreds of words used to describe my friend and mentor, Simone Joyaux, since her passing last week. After they helped us settle into the house, we began five days of adventure and fun. She soon adored them and vice versa.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

So, before you stuff your baskets full of fun items, don’t forget to add a few all-inclusive trips or weekend getaways into the mix. Golf – For those who like to spend their weekends out on the green, this golf basket has all the tools they need to up their game, whether they’re playing for fun or prepping for a tournament.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

Amazon doesn't let you write reviews for the fun of it. In this post, an exploration of ways that museums can support promoters, convert detractors, and generally energize visitors to share their experience with others. Supporting Promoters Somewhere out there, there are people who love your museum. Maybe a comment card or book.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

In celebration of Women's History Month, we wanted to share some of these sheroic tales and introduce you to young women who are carrying the torch forward today. Sheroes in the Arts. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art. Are you inspired by women in the arts?

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

If you’re looking for a creative, fun fundraising idea to engage supporters and boost your funding, you’ve come to the right place! Cornhole tournament – Host a fun cornhole tournament for your peer-to-peer participants and have them fundraise among their friends and family beforehand.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. I never asked people for more, but I always highlighted and celebrated active participants. What did they do?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

The longer I consult with museums and cultural institutions, the more time I spend peering into people's eyes, wondering: do folks here feel able to innovate? Leaders in innovative organizations "communicate to excess" with staff, especially in encouraging, rewarding, and celebrating innovative practice.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2015

Fun Fact: I didn’t receive a single nonprofit email on Sunday, December 7th. The best end-to-end campaign was done by the Museum of Modern Art. Celebrate With Us, There’s Still Time. A world without art is just boring. Happy Holidays from the Gibbes Museum! But of course, context is everything.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

A fun, colorful way to track your nonprofit’s growth and activity on Twitter. The Noun Project’s mission is to share, celebrate and enhance the world’s visual language by serving as a portal to unique icon sets. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. Clker is an online database of royalty free clip art.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

We’ll talk about shiny new tools, and we’ll talk about all the fun things, and there’s going to be mentions of TikTok, and Twitch, and live streaming. There are people doing art. It’s actually really, really fun. It’s super fun. So we’re going to talk a lot about that today.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Many of them had almost nothing by way of material resources, but they had imagination, and if you have imagination, you can, it turns out, light the dark with all kinds of creative arts. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. They are making progress.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2010

None of us is a huge celebrity, but between the six of us who ran the project we have several thousand Twitter followers. And it was a sort of question in our heads: do you have a higher probability of getting great creative work from people because we made it fun and not burdensome? What generated all the buzz?

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