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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

To illustrate, Cilente Skendall shared that one activity not considered “service” by most respondents was “alternative breaks”—short trips designed to provide students with “service immersion experiences.” The students also emphasized that service increased their sense of agency.

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Build Your Storymaking Skills with Free Events and Webinars

Tech Soup

Chicago, Illinois: Digital Storytelling Month Kickoff. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Video and Photography 101. Chicago, Illinois: Digital Storytelling Part II. Kibiribiri, Uganda: Building Capacities of Teachers and Students in Digital Storytelling. Chicago, Illinois: Digital Storytelling Month Kickoff. Friday, April 8.

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Chicago Symphony Social Media Strategy: What happens when people outside your organization set up a presence on Facebook?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I found the Chicago Symphony's Fan Page and the Charlie Vernon Fan Club group. I started my job at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra nearly three years ago, after an internship at a non-profit and a temporary stint at a PR agency dedicated to the arts. I was trying to make two points during the workshop. Tell me about you and your job.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. ll be inviting all kinds of people, including designers, artists, young people, families, students and Tate staff, to share their ideas. Over the next six months we???ll

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. Photography students use Flickr to post, organize, share, and critique their colleagues?????? Chicago Crime Maps; Another googlemap mashup with crime statistics.

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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. I thought, I have friends in academia who are taking sabbaticals, why can't I?

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14 Top Nonprofit Websites to Inspire Your Organization

DNL OmniMedia

Interlochen Center for the Arts (ICA) is a nonprofit educational institution dedicated to empowering students of all ages through high-quality arts and cultural programs. Strong use of photography. Photos of students engaging with iThrive programming anchor every page of their site. Nonprofit Website Overview.