Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

million to the winning ideas across six categories, including: Health, Arts & Culture, Food & Shelter, The Planet, Neighborhoods and Education. Anyone can apply for a grant and the public decides who wins. Each month, Pepsi will award grants up to $1.3

Project 105

Project Contest Award Grant 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

The top 100 included a mix of nonprofits with an operating budget of under $10 million with programs in designated Chase corporate responsibility areas: education, health care, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare. .

Contest 62

Contest Community Organization Giving 62

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I used the example of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which has a mission statement that includes unusual words like “bold” and “fearless.” When you speak in the language of the institutional mission, executives will understand you better and be attentive to the new connections you draw from the mission to proposed projects.

Project 22

Project Museum Teen North Carolina 22

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

This post is even more relevant today to the broader conversation about audience diversity in the arts than when it was published three years ago. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. I''m white, and several of the things Diane told me about are things I don''t notice because I''m part of the majority culture.

St. Louis 45

St. Louis Museum Audience Teen 45

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2005

Last weekend I went to a great house party/fundraiser for Art in Action camp , a 10-day cultural boot camp for budding teen activists. Urban Sprouts, Art in Action and Streetside Stories (where I worked for 6 years) are great programs, but they can only serve so many young people. education youth activism art

San Francisco 40

San Francisco Jordan Giving Proposal 40

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I was talking this week with Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project (an alternative arts space in LA), about different models for community engagement in cultural institutions. For example, consider two independent arts organizations in Los Angeles -- Machine Project and The Public School.

Voice 42

Voice Los Angeles Denver Museum 42