Tag: Nonprofits

A Studio Residency For Formerly Incarcerated Artists at the World Trade Center

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This Spring, Silver Art Projects—a non-profit organization that supports overlooked artists—will open applications for its third round of year-long residencies, offering studio space at the World Trade Center, stipends and mentorships for disadvantaged artists. A quarter of the creatives chosen will be formerly incarcerated people. “It just made sense to bring in formerly incarcerated artists as a focused community that could be working alongside all …

Via theartnewspaper.com

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The International Council of Museums Continues to Question What Defines a Museum

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The International Council of Museums is on an international crusade to answer the question “what is a museum?” in an effort to update their definition—one that hasn’t changed much since the ’70s. The Paris-based non-profit works on behalf of museums everywhere and, according to Rick West (president of the Autry National Center of the American West), the question that acts as a blockade to a …

Via nytimes.com

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Google Will Match Your Donation to Refugee Relief

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Google has so far donated €1 million to Europe’s ongoing refugee and migrant relief efforts and now they’ve doubled down on their commitment to humanitarian efforts by pledging to match the contributions of others. Donate and Google will match it—all the way until the collective effort reaches its goal of €10 million total. Donations will be distributed among four different non-profits: Doctors Without Borders, International …

Via onetoday.google.com

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