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Power of Storytelling | Harmony for Change: The Global Impact of Playing For Change

Pamela Grow

What sets this apart is the collaboration of 100 artists from diverse countries, orchestrated by the Playing For Change Foundation. Mayer, reflecting on his song in 2007, expressed the need to start a debate about our tendency to passively await change. Beyond its social impact, music has profound effects on the soul and the brain.

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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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Hello, Washington Post: Dolllars Per Facebook Donor Is Not the Right Metric for Success

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. Back in 2007, when Facebook opened it doors to people older than college students and nonprofits started the early experiments on Facebook Causes, Froggy Loop did an extensive analysis " The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes " using the dollars per donor analysis.

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Advice for the College Senior Who Wants to Make a Difference

Have Fun - Do Good

If you are a college student, or someone in career transition, who wants to find work that fulfills your big vision for a better world, I have a few words of advice, and some books to recommend. Creating a Life Worth Living: A Practical Course in Career Design for Artists, Innovators, and Others Aspiring to a Creative Life by Carol Lloyd.

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Observations from The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop, Month 1

Museum 2.0

I've been working for The Tech on this project since November of 2007, and it has been an intense and exciting three months. Our proto-users are artists, architects, university professors, mathematicians, engineers who have already been experimenting with creating interactive environments and objects within the virtual world.

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Nonprofits Live: DIY Blogging Recap

Tech Soup

Thurman has been blogging about leadership, nonprofits, and social media since 2007. It employs volunteer artists who use the arts as a tool for healing. SPSFNA's blog is mission-driven, highlighting its students' success stories. Vision and Execution. Content is driven by each staff member's area of expertise.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. Betty and six of her high school English students founded an organization called the Girl Child Network. She said, "Paola, we were to about to call you.