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Non-Traditional Giving Days for Your Next Fundraiser

The Modern Nonprofit

to plan a monthlong peer-to-peer fundraising campaign: February = Black History Month, American Heart Month, Oral Hygiene Awareness Month, Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, Eating Disorder Awareness Month. 15th : World Art Day — #WorldArtDay. Consider dates that are important to your work and your donors.

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Generational Giving at Arts & Cultural Organizations – A Donor Story

Connection Cafe

As a kid, I was saturated by symphony performances and choral music. 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. As kids become teens, encourage them to volunteer with your organization.

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Teenagers, Space-Makers, and Scaling Up to Change the World

Museum 2.0

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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5 Hybrid Event Ideas for Youth Organizations

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The work you do is invaluable to generations of people. For older kids and teens that benefit from your youth organization, a video game tournament is a great opportunity for them to show off their skills while raising funds for your organization. A gala event can work great in a hybrid format. Hybrid fundraising galas.

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Now, years later, as I work with nonprofits who are primarily interested in Facebook and Twitter, there is part of me that mourns the loss of MySpace being used by the nonprofits. Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. If your organization is trying to reach teens, absolutely!

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The Art of Relevance Sneak Peek: How the London Science Museum Became More Relevant to Deaf Families

Museum 2.0

This month, I'm sharing a few chapters from my new book The Art of Relevance in advance of its release. I wrote this book because of a fundamental curiosity about what relevance is and how it works. To get into this chapter, imagine that your institution/program/art is a room. A is working the door.

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Teenagers and Social Participation

Museum 2.0

I immediately flashed to my work with art museums and staff members' concerns that older, traditional audiences will shy away from social engagement in the galleries. Many teens love to perform for each other. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres. They like to do and touch and make.

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