Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

One of them was Vincent Law who is doing interesting work with teaching young children about giving and philanthropy. Throughout history, philanthropy plays a very important role because it directly impacts our wellbeing. I then said to her ‘Don’t you know that Egyptian has a longer history of philanthropy than the Americans?’

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Association TV

JULY 29, 2022

But first, a brief history of “the office” as a concept. University of Technology Research Fellow, Augustin Chevez and Senior Lecturer, DJ Huppatz note one early example of the office in classical art: Botticelli’s “Saint Augustine in His Study,” painted all the way back in 1480.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 22, 2013

CMCE creates academic and artistic programs to help children and youth understand and overcome violent world events. CMCE creates academic and artistic programs to help children and youth understand and overcome violent world events. After 9/11, she spearheaded an art-based CMCE 9/11 Trauma Relief Project in the New York City schools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

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.” 32) Fred Northup, Jr.

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Qgiv

MARCH 1, 2023

March is Women’s History Month, a time to honor women’s accomplishments throughout history and recognize history-makers that have contributed to advancing and protecting women’s rights in our society. Learn how you can take the time to celebrate Women’s History Month with our list of ideas and nonprofits you can support!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

, an exhibition produced with schoolchildren at the Wallace Collection in London, is a lovely example of co-creation that demonstrates the multiple benefits of inviting audience members to act as partners in arts organizations. They decided to ask children, and the project was born. Here are the basics.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2013

Meanwhile, arts industry leaders worry about " oversupply " of organizations in the face of dwindling demand. Arts organizations can operate on their own timelines and internal values. There will never be enough meals for hungry people or mental health facilities for those who need them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2007

Working for an organization with a long, illustrious history, I am always curious about how other organizations got their start. I found Bookshare's interesting history on its Web site's About Us section: "Benetech, a new kind of nonprofit enterprise, is sponsoring the Bookshare initiative.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

4) Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop :: shop.artic.edu. The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop sells unique and beautiful objects from around the world in support of the arts. The Field Museum Store offers gifts for those interested in science and cultural, natural, and human history. 13) NPR Shop :: shop.npr.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

Click here to listen to a very brief interview Over the weekend, I attended the Technology in the Arts Conference in Pittsburgh where artist and activist Faith Ringgold was one of the keynote speakers. She noted, "In the 60's, it was about answering the question "What is black art?" Could you write a story?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Here are a few creative ideas and examples—especially for parents with young children. Children’s museum gift membership If you have little kids, you know what a godsend these memberships can be, especially when you’re stuck at home during the winter break or ready for a break from the heat during the dog days of summer.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. For years we have been producing digital media to fulfill our mission of educating the public about science and history.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 6, 2012

Eric Martin, Native American Public Telecommunications Blog NAPT shares Native stories with the world, and advances Native media that represents the values, experiences, histories, and cultures of Tribal Nations, communities and people. The blog covers social design and the Millennium Development Goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Ami’s one and only board is called “ Really want these ” and instead of Louboutins, iPhone cases and nail art she’s dying to try, Ami’s pinned images include plain rice, faucets for clean drinking water, and chalk for school. UNICEF has a history of innovation. It links to a donation landing page.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 10, 2021

For a little history here, the game CryptoKitties was the first major use case for NFTs and has been a huge success. There are many exchanges to find NFTs and each one tends to specialize in different types of art or styles. What’s more, artists will continue to get a percentage of the future sales of that NFT art into the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s. In the US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Children of the Lodz Ghetto research project , participants work together with staff to do database research into the lives of thousands of Polish children during the Holocaust.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

ska, an art historian interested in museums, education, and new technologies. She has created educational mobile apps for teaching art history and is the organizer of the Polish edition of Free Arts Day. Louvre Kids allows children to experience the museum in the form of "edutainment" (entertaining education).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. We also wanted to: Inspire visitors to engage in active looking: notice, reflect, react, and respond to the works of art and to the interdisciplinary quality of the exhibition. Reassert the "forum"?

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Bloomerang

MAY 11, 2021

Those of you who have watched Simone mesmerize a large audience should see her work with a small crowd of energetic and knowledge seeking children. She implanted a love of France, history and what true friendships are all about. She soon adored them and vice versa. Simone lit up the room, or even the wide open spaces of outdoors.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2012

Now, a year later, I've seen the beginnings of how that question has borne out at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH) , as well as hearing from folks around the museum industry about the interplay of exhibitions and events at their own institutions. And so, in this post, a few findings, and more questions.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

Art and Media. Children and Education. Kliptown Youth Programme provides after-school activities and educational support to disadvantaged children from the Kliptown area. Heaven Children's Haven gives full-time support and counseling to children in care of social services.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. People x (Food + Place) looked at photos taken by children in a park to understand what contributed to their sense of community.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The history of systemic racism has created very real barriers to accessing critical wealth-building opportunities for people of color but those same legacies of harm and inequity can also reflect disparities found within the nonprofit sector as well. Nonprofit leaders share their most successful nonprofit fundraising strategies.

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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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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. It also won the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture a Silver Vega Award!

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Candid

MARCH 27, 2024

In February, bucking end-of-year trends, none of these human services sub-categories were searched more often than the arts and culture sub-categories listed above. For example, arts and culture groups saw month-over-month increases of 111% in January and 61% in February.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Build a membership program specifically for children. Maybe think about activities you could support that would offer parents a place for their kids to go and learn, like a movie series, art classes, or a small-scale concert. Individuals with a giving history spanning five years get 10% off a membership for two years.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

Two weeks ago, Roberto Bedoya asked several arts bloggers, including me, to write a post reflecting on Whiteness and its implications for the arts. I am in no way an expert in issues related to racial and ethnic representation in the arts. They tell histories of white male conquest. It's talking about white people.

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CauseVox

APRIL 12, 2022

For the past 25 years, Carousel Ranch has made it their mission to improve the lives of children and young adults through equestrian therapy and vocational training. Beginning with one client and one horse in a backyard, this organization has grown to a 10+ acre state-of-the-art therapy facility in Santa Clarita. – Cindy Chairez.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If we had known the full consequences of Steve Jobs showing us that first iPhone on stage in 2007 and its impacts on our lives, attention, interactions, children, environment, physical and mental health, what hard questions would we have asked? We didn’t ask. Generative AIs have the power to transform education.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

I grew up professionally in the science and children's museum field, where touching is guaranteed and floor staff spend more time helping visitors learn and ensuring their personal safety than they do protecting the objects. Art, however, does not come to museums pre-hardened. The level of touching, especially of art, has increased.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Roblox, a gaming company aimed at children, has had a tumultuous if exciting path to the public markets. Deep Science: AI adventures in arts and letters. Deep Science: AI adventures in arts and letters. Olo has a history of growth and profitability, making its impending pricing all the more interesting.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

Organized by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA) , this year’s 29th annual awards included around 3,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the world’s largest awards of its kind. The Communicator Awards honor excellence in innovation and creative work in marketing and communications.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

A law meant to protect Indigenous art might just be lip service The first embroidery stitch María Méndez Rodríguez learned at the age of 7 was the chain stitch. It’s the same one that, years later, she would teach to her seven children. When we use these textiles, we are marked by a whole colonial history of violence”.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" Children of the Lodz Ghetto ).

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