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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

Mission: Porter’s Call is a place where artists can find counsel, support, and encouragement, specifically attuned to their unique profession. Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens. Their goal is to cut teen suicide rates in half by 2028. Impacting: Mental health. Porter’s Call.

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. Stories about how MySpace would ruin your child’s life and put them in perilous danger were everywhere.

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Equity in Arts Funding: We're Not There Yet. We're Not Even Close.

Museum 2.0

There's the barrier of artistic quality--funders, trustees, or staff members who argue that work by non-canonical artists is not up to the standards of the institution. Reading the report, I kept thinking of Rick Lowe, the artist and community activist behind Project Row Houses in Houston.

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How Gen Z Donors Harness the Power of Online Giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And despite their youth (its oldest members are only now leaving their teens), kids in Generation Z are regularly rocking social media for social good. “There’s only so much a 12-year-old kid can do,” Noah says in his campaign story. Helping Your Teen Give Back. “That’s why I need help from you!”

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

Over the last year, the work of Traveling Postcards keeps crossing my path, so I asked its founder, Caroline Lovell, to share with us: How Traveling Postcards works The path that brought her to this work Her favorite Traveling Postcards success story How we can get involved with Traveling Postcards I've posted her answers below.

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Guest Post by Nina Simon -- Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I show the tool and then they say, “yeah, but we really want people to share their own stories about fly-swatters,” or, “we think our visitors can make amazing videos about justice.” It’s easy for museums to assign a corner and a kiosk to visitors and say, “we’ll put their stories over there.” It’s like cooking.

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How Different Types of Museums Approach Participation

Museum 2.0

They are frequently about real people's stories. As cultural anthropology has swung away from a vision of authoritative history and toward the embrace of multiple perspectives, there is potential for those stories to come from all over the place, including visitors themselves. Children of the Lodz Ghetto ).

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