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Submit Your Children of the Recession Story to Katie Couric

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Couric wanted our help getting the word out about the issues being covered in CBS Reports' new series, Children of the Recession. According to Couric's post, Katie Couric's Notebook: Children of the Recession : "Since the recession began, more than one million children have lost health insurance as their parents lose their jobs.

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How to Write Fundraising Emails That Get Results

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For example: “Many teen girls struggle with their self-esteem thanks to Instagram and Snapchat. Please help us open the door for a teen to attend our personal development conference, benefit from having a mentor, and get on a path to college and a career.” . We hope to start our pilot program next month with six moms.

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The Art of Relevance Sneak Peek: Part Ex-Con, Part Farmer, Part Queen

Museum 2.0

FoodWhat's staff and teens have taught me a lot about what it really means to be relevant to people who are often overlooked or ignored. FoodWhat empowers teens to change their lives through farming and food justice. When Doron visits schools to invite teens to apply for FoodWhat, he gives a five-minute pitch on their terms.

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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 know this sounds strange coming from someone writing an admittedly self-expressive blog post, but hear me out. Does that sound like a fun and rewarding casual activity to you? But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.” Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0.

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

Museum 2.0

The title may sound innocuous. One of the institutions that really impresses me in supporting this kind of social change through the arts is, strangely enough, a children's museum. This week, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released a new paper by Holly Sidford called Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change.

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Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Museum 2.0

I know this sounds strange coming from someone writing an admittedly self-expressive blog post, but hear me out. Does that sound like a fun and rewarding casual activity to you? But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.” I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. My focus is on how children learn science. Tracy: The questions of really of usage and usability and appeal start to sound like questions we might not normally ask when we talk about museums and preservation. Learning Science by Design.

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