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Generational Giving at Arts & Cultural Organizations – A Donor Story

Connection Cafe

Maybe think about activities you could support that would offer parents a place for their kids to go and learn, like a movie series, art classes, or a small-scale concert. As kids become teens, encourage them to volunteer with your organization. Could your teen volunteers help run the kids programs?

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. Recent reports have alluded to class and race divisions between MySpace and Facebook users. Teens talk about the organizations at their local church, and thus the church creates a MySpace profile. Music and arts organizations, probably.

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Crowd Fundraising for the Arts: No Running, Walking, or Freezing Plunges Required

Connection Cafe

After jumping in, you swam across the short length of the hole (about 10 yards), and emerge, wet and freezing, only to get to race through temps in the teens to try to warm up in a lukewarm hot tub. My graduate school class at the Wisconsin School of Business raised more than $10k for the Wisconsin Special Olympics.

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YMCA of Greater Seattle: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

YMCA of Greater Seattle's Kirkland Teen program was one of our test sites. It serves an estimated 84,000 children and teens, so we hoped that this lab would be a serious test of a MultiPoint Server lab's resilience. The Kirkland Teen program in Bellevue, Washington is run by Emily Smith who is their Youth Development Director.

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Reflections of a Nonprofit Heart

ASU Lodestar Center

I don’t remember why I was perched on a table in art class, but I do remember the drama of leaping between this bully and his victim. When I was a young teen, for example, my twin sister and a girlfriend would pass around a football during lunch hour. Without hesitating, I knew I had the power to stop the harassment.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits. Want some waffles with your art? Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

Hundreds of unique, hand-made art postcards, containing words of compassion and solidarity are hand delivered to individuals and communities all over the world, bringing connection, hope, visibility and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence or repression. Each card is a piece of art in my mind.