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

Pamela Grow

Mayer, reflecting on his song in 2007, expressed the need to start a debate about our tendency to passively await change. ” This collaboration, transcending borders, offers a reason to smile and a global call to address climate change collectively. .” Prepare to be inspired!

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Solicitation on the streets for programs at the k-12 level to train students to use cyber tools for science. Funded a project to work with state of Michigan - requirement for high school graduation is that all students have an online learning experience. Grantees - like Global Kids - found the right group to fund.

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Game On: How Gamification is Changing the Sector

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Rudy Frank Graduate Student, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Global 2000 businesses have recognized gamification as a powerful tool to engage consumers and motivate them to purchase more products. Rudy is a freelance photographer and social innovator based out of Tempe, Arizona.

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The Horizon Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The role of the Journalist Panel is: These journalists will be given priority access to the teachers and on a permission basis will be allowed to interview students with teachers present. The overall intent of the Horizon Project is to demonstrate the exciting benefits of a global connected learning experience. Who had input?

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007. OSEP told us on a Sunday that we needed to start serving students for free right away. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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Got the Winter Blues? Giving May Cheer You Up

Have Fun - Do Good

Maya Angelou In December 2007, the New York Sun article, Why Giving Makes You Happy reported that: "According to the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey, a survey of 30,000 American households, people who gave money to charity in 2000 were 43% more likely than non-givers to say they were 'very happy' about their lives.

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