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October Awareness: Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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While you’re wearing and shopping, it’s important to keep in mind that in recent years, the “pinkification” of Breast Cancer Awareness Month has become an important issue due to companies who make pink product packaging during the awareness month but still manufacture and sell products that are linked to an increased risk of breast cancer.

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Teenagers, Space-Makers, and Scaling Up to Change the World

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This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

As part of the Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore apps targeted toward youth as well as apps developed by youth. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project.

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How Cross-Sector Collaboration is Helping Fight Youth Unemployment in Boston

Connection Cafe

Where does your organization sit in your community? What about local nonprofits or community foundations; do you know who to reach out to if needed? Inspiration can come from an assortment of places, but to be connected to collaborative opportunities you need to have relationships across different organizations in your community.

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

Museum 2.0

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" 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. Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students.

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4 bbcon Takeaways for Philanthropic Organizations to Power 2019 Planning

Connection Cafe

Technology is dramatically changing the way we work and live our lives, and the social good community needs to account for this digital transformation that demands increased transparency and also opens new doors. Takeaway #4: Collaboration is necessary to solve the big issues today. .

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Caravan Studios Showcases Diverse Apps for Social Good

Tech Soup

Focusing in on Local Issues. The city's OpenData goals are to improve city services for residents and businesses, produce jobs, enhance economic opportunities, and increase resident engagement and empowerment. Here's how it works: incoming reports from the community are verified by a dispatcher monitoring the Concrn dashboard.