Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Similar to the list I shared for nonprofits focusing on education , arts and culture tends to be a very popular issue area for American foundations. The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. Funding Priority: Arts & Culture.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Over the past five years, nonprofit arts organizations have maneuvered through pandemic shutdowns, evolving audience behaviors, and the relentless pressure of inflation. Since 2021, rapidly rising prices have affected arts organizations and the people who support them. But what does the financial landscape look like now?

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Charity Village

MARCH 30, 2023

The Paul Barber Foundation (PBF) launched the Paul Barber Foundation Grant, which supports arts-based programming that services underrepresented and/or marginalized groups. The post Paul Barber Foundation Grant opportunity: Arts-based programming appeared first on CharityVillage.

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Charity Village

JULY 8, 2022

The Artists’ Foundation is a non-profit organization which was established over 35 years ago to provide one-time financial assistance to Quebec artists who are going through a difficult period. The foundation is announcing the official launch of a new direct financial support fund for performing arts workers throughout the province.

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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. Classic modern and cutting edge design products for adults and kids, including items produced exclusively for the Museum of Modern Art (New York).

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Candid

JUNE 12, 2024

Every year, Candid fields the Foundation Giving Forecast Survey, asking large U.S. private and community foundations to share information about their grant payments and grantmaking practices. Every year, Candid fields the Foundation Giving Forecast Survey, asking large U.S. The median community foundation awarded 6.6%

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Forum One

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Gesso is built with a focus on accessibility, performance, and scalability—ensuring our clients get a foundation that supports inclusive, visually cohesive websites and applications. Customizability and Flexibility: The Art Behind Gesso Gesso is named after the primer artists used to prepare a canvas for painting.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2023

When most of us think of arts and culture nonprofits, the biggest names come easily to mind. Building and maintaining an audience or patron base, essential for arts and culture nonprofits , requires continuous and resource-intensive marketing and outreach efforts. The arts are not a luxury; they are a necessity. The Smithsonian.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 6, 2023

USM is a family of state-of-the-art speech models with 2B parameters trained on 12 million hours of speech and 28 billion sentences of text, spanning 300+ languages. For en-US, USM has a 6% relative lower WER compared to the current internal state-of-the-art model. USM, which is for use in YouTube (e.g.,

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Paying it forward is simply what nonprofits, schools, foundations, and their supporters do. Kimberly Townsend Pierce, Chester County Hospital Foundation Throw a Brick Bash for Sustainers “Since the launch of the Brick Program in 2019, we have generated thousands of dollars in revenue. Donors share their good fortune with those in need.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Instead of focusing on being responsible for the foundation, she recommends looking to how organizations build deeper relationships with applicants and grantees and be poised to be responsive to the needs of the community. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes , Stitcher or your preferred streaming service for future episodes! Full Webinar.

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Futurism

MARCH 8, 2025

The company is also building a text-to-image "foundational" AI model, dubbed Pinterest Canvas , which it says is designed for "enhancing existing images and products on the platform." The platform has stressed that there is an opt-out button for the AI training, and says it doesn't train its models on data from minor users.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 26, 2023

MatCha, which stands for math and charts, is a pixels-to-text foundation model (a pre-trained model with built-in inductive biases that can be fine-tuned for multiple applications) trained on two complementary tasks: (a) chart de-rendering and (b) math reasoning. Both papers will be presented at ACL2023.

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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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Forum One

JULY 29, 2021

The art of naming comes with many challenges, but it can also be lots of fun deciding on a name that is timeless and represents the brand vision of your organization. Your brand framework is the foundation for everything you create related to your brand. The post The Art of Naming appeared first on Forum One | Turn Ideas Into Impact.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

” SEE ALSO: The end of remote work doesn't work for women Before joining Yahoo in 2023, the graduate of San Francisco's Academy of Art University held leadership roles at Disney Interactive, Rodale, iWin, and News Corp., where she led the launch of the first mobile apps for Fox News and Fox Business. That needs to change.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

With these successes in addressing individual UI tasks, a natural question is whether we can obtain foundational understandings of UIs that can benefit specific UI tasks. Spotlight drastically exceeded the state-of-the-art across four UI modeling tasks. 82.1 - Taperception - - - 85.5 Tappability - - - 87.9 Spotlight B/16 136.6

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Charity Village

JUNE 30, 2022

$25 million donation from the Pierre Lassonde Family Foundation will create a new, outdoor public art trail on the future Villiers Island in Toronto’s transformed Port Lands. The post $25-million gift to create new public art trail on Toronto’s waterfront appeared first on CharityVillage.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A Letter of Inquiry is something of an art form, one you can master with practice and by understanding what funders want. When you write a Letter of Inquiry, you want to put your best foot forward every single time, even if you already received money from the funder or know the foundation staff personally. Take a moment to reflect.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Still, understanding your audience is the foundation of all other design strategies and directly influences the success or failure of a website. In practice: 1) “I Have A Dream” Foundation. In practice: 1) AMA Foundation. Know your audience’s goals and mindset.

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Charity Village

MAY 11, 2023

The Olive Tree Foundation invites eligible organizations to apply for grants to support projects and initiatives. Eligible organizations include social, community and health services; education and library services; policy institutes and think tanks; and arts, culture & heritage.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 13, 2025

Revisit mission, vision and values : Everything naturally and powerfully flows from this foundation. Training both in person and virtualwill help pull back the curtain and demystify the art and science of fundraising so that everyone can contribute. Our nation boasts more than 1.5 million nonprofits. So, this is a fear of the unknown.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Once your NGO has laid a foundation for online fundraising success by launching a mobile-optimized website, an e-newsletter, and having the ability to accept online donations, your NGO is then ready to use social media to maximize online fundraising and cause awareness. 1) Tell your NGOs’ story in photo essay format.

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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.”

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Many non-profit organizations rely on grants from foundations, corporations, and government agencies to round out their fundraising efforts. Go to a board meeting and let your board members know that you are conducting grant research to determine which foundations to apply to for grants for the coming year.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

” Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: Prioritizing Collaboration and Sustainable Funding Arts and Culture Alpine County (ACAC), a local arts agency, has obtained small grants from the Alpine County Board of Supervisors and Live Healthy, an organization under the Alpine County umbrella.

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VentureBeat

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) has launched the D.R.E.A.M.S. Digital Research Entertainment Arts Media Storytelling) Initiative supported by a gift from Tom Dolan and the Dolan Family Foundation.

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Machine Learning Mastery

MARCH 14, 2024

Data Science embodies a delicate balance between the art of visual storytelling, the precision of statistical analysis, and the foundational bedrock of data preparation, transformation, and analysis.

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CauseVox

JULY 17, 2023

Discover foundational elements and mutual benefits of securing sponsorships for your organization, target audience and sponsors. In this 60-minute live webinar, you’ll learn: Foundational understanding of how sponsorships benefit your overall fundraising efforts. The key elements to building an attractive sponsorship deck.

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 23, 2024

Ford Foundation President Darren Walker announced he will step down from the position by the end of 2025, ending a 12-year run at the helm of the $16.8 billion foundation. Walker’s innovations include a first-ever $1 billion social bond by a foundation to bolster and strengthen nonprofits during the Covid-19 crisis.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Instead, fundraisers should create a series of touchpoints, building the foundation of the relationship before making the ask. Setting the Foundation: Pre-Ask Due Diligence There are many steps in the donor lifecycle before an ask is made. Ask for too little and you miss out on opportunities for your organization.

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Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Martin Lowenstein from Friends of China Camp Passion is the Foundation for Everything A passion for the mission, vision, and values of our organization! This person should be committed to establishing a solid foundation for the organization and providing strategic direction. Everything else can be taught.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 17, 2022

Elton John AIDS Foundation. Prism Foundation. Pride Foundation. PFund Foundation. Horizons Foundation. The Vermont Community Foundation. The New York Women’s Foundation. Stonewall Community Foundation. New York Foundation. Maine Community Foundation. New Harvest Foundation.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Even before the appearance of new reasoning models, some of AIs hottest companies produced state-of-the-art new AI systems. And Runway again made its case for the state-of-the-art with its new Gen-3 Alpha video generation models. In February 2025, Anthropic moved on to its next major iteration of Claude, Claude 3.7

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Bloomerang

MARCH 31, 2025

Just like the foundations that fund nonprofits, grant consultants often specialize in working with certain types of organizations. For example, one consultant may primarily serve arts and culture organizations in a single state, while another may specialize in working with national advocacy organizations with budgets over $5 million.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 12, 2022

Generally, this will be foundations, whether community, private, or corporate. If you have a local community foundation , begin there. Next, begin your research into private foundations established by individuals, families, or corporations. art preservation; historic buildings; tourist experience, and so forth).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2021

In the coming years, nonprofits and foundations will emerge to help define and implement a code of ethics on subjects ranging from human rights in the metaverse to its environmental impact , but the good people of our community are needed now to explore and be a part of the conversation around the planning and experience of the metaverse.

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