55 stories by "Sarah Marczynski"
One of my college professors told my class that he started each morning by watching one Ted talk. Â Over the summer, I started most mornings with one and my particular favorites were from …
Concert season is here and with it, program creation season! Â My organization, the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera is a mid-level organization that produces about 30 concerts with progra…
There’s a sub-class of nerds out there called “Map Nerds”. I’m a proud member; I love maps. A standard class in many public administration or urban planning classes i…
In March 2014, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum directing the Department of Labor to update the minimum wage and overtime standards. This isn’t exactly Scandal mater…
As we head into the holidays, lots of organizations, mine included, are prepping for end of year solicitations. Â One solicitation campaign that shouldn’t be overlooked is your Givin…
About a year ago, Facebook rolled out it’s “Call to Action” buttons for organizational pages that could be crafted to invite people visiting your page to take some form of …
I’m in a White House withdrawal right now. I just finished The West Wing on Netflix, waiting on Scandal‘s season to start back up, and still pondering the House of Cards…
Like many people in arts organizations, I get to wear many hats in my job. Â One of my favorites is that of volunteer coordinator. Â Each season, we rely on over 100 volunteers to help o…
My organization, the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera, has spent the last season and a good part of the summer talking about different opportunities to be more inclusive. Â Our state arts …
In at least three meetings this summer, the conversation has shifted toward millennials and their ticket-buying/donation making tendencies. Â We’re a hot topic in lots of organizatio…
One of my college professors told my class that he started each morning by watching one Ted talk. Â Since here in Chattanooga, our summer is a little more relaxed then during the season, I…
In Tennessee, our state arts council has spent the past year working with arts organizations in the state to be more inclusive with regards to audience members with disabilities or developme…
A few weeks ago, a post from PostGrad Problems about ways to become a young professional came across my Twitter feed. It was a funny post with some…practical tips about attending Ha…
Social media is increasingly becoming more important to arts organizations. Â Platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and more are opportunities to promote and market events and your o…
Surely somewhere in the Community Engagement Manager job description is "Takes meetings that no one else wants to is available for."Â I usually enjoy meetings; often I get to hear about u…
One of my college professors told my class that he started each morning by watching one Ted talk. Â Since here in Chattanooga, our summer is a little more relaxed then during the season, I…
The trees are blooming, the flowers blossoming, computer mouses clicking away, and frenzied administrators wandering around quoting narratives and outcome data: Grant writing season is upon …
I went to a luncheon a few weeks ago on an “Innovation District” that Chattanooga is creating. In that luncheon, the words “Start-Up Entrepreneur” were said no less t…
Infographics are everywhere right now. A good one is quick to read, gives you the facts and figures clearly, and has some whimsy through the theme or the graphics that are used. Thinking…
I sat in an Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) luncheon recently discussing different generational traits from the four generations currently in the work force and how best to ma…
It’s Arts Advocacy Time in Tennessee, Y’all! Each March, Tennesseans for the Arts sponsors an Arts Advocacy Day at Capitol Hill in Nashville. Â This day allows organizations fr…
"Ermahgerd, she totally creeped my pins and then RT'd them all!" Need a translator for that? Thanks to social media, new terms are appearing constantly. And if you're managing your organizat…
March is Women's History Month and on March 8, many celebrated International Women's Day by lauding the accomplishments of women and by pointing out the many issues that still affect …
One of my favorite nonprofit blogs, NonProfit with Balls by Vu Le, published a post on 1/20/2015 about the theory of trickle down community engagement. The Chattanooga Symphony & Ope…
THE MILLENNIALS ARE TAKING OVER THE WORLD!! Well, we're not taking over quite yet, but in less than a decade, the millennial generation (people born between 1981 and 2000) will be the larges…
