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Art and Activism: Olivia Greer and Women Center Stage

Have Fun - Do Good

Women Center Stage has launched women artists' work like Iris Bahr, who wrote and performed " Dai " at the festival, and is now performing her piece on Culture Project's main stage, and Staceyann Chin , who did a workshop of, "Border/Clash" as part of the Women Center Stage festival, and went on to produce fuller productions of the piece.

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Young, old, poor, rich, conservative, liberal, urban, rural, black, white, brown, red, yellow, gay, straight, preps, goths, rappers, artists, hippies, yuppies… you name it. Beauty is on the eye of the beholder and some people just like the chaos and artistic freedom of MySpace, while some like the neat clean, linear look of Facebook.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live on May 16: Gaming

Tech Soup

Ben co-founded Games for Change and served as a co-director until 2007. He is currently a PhD student at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Santa Cruz, researching how digital media foster civic engagement, informal learning and activism. You can keep track of his work on his personal website.

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Large Scale Art Event in Second Life on Feb. 11-13th - Call for Entries

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In cooperation with Amoration AMO Studios, NMC Campus is hosting a large scale art event February 11-13, 2007. Connect the Dots with hundreds of artists as we Illuminate and innovate together to weave new networks. Interested artists should review the call and then enter their submissions via the web form at [link].

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10 Amazing Environmental Nonprofits You Need to Know About

Tech Soup

Cary Creative Center in North Carolina is an upcycling nonprofit that provides used artistic materials to people. Founder Richard Zimmerman started Orangutan Outreach in 2007, and the organization grew quickly thanks to a close affiliation with the Animal Planet series Orangutan Island. Cary Creative Center — Third-Place Winner.

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We Got Issues: A New Collection of Young Women's Voices

Have Fun - Do Good

Oakland-based performance artist, Aya De León , shared her secrets for a healthy relationship: Being in a relationship, particularly as a black woman with a black man, just means that we are each bringing our own land mines to the relationship. Leadership Institute of Arts and Activism. In 2005, they launched the WGI! For more info.,

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. I started the blog as a personal learning activity, but also for the dorkiest reason in the world: to have something to talk about with my heroes. By summer of 2007, when I left the Spy Museum to move to California, the blog was a big deal.

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