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Reflections from Social Good Brasil and a New Word: PhilanthroTeen!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I delivered the ending keynote on the second day and my colleague from the UN Foundation, Aaron Shernian started the second day of the conference, a day packed with ideas, content, and inspiration from the best of Brasil. Teens As Free Agents. Now, I can’t wait for my international projects in 2013! ” Philantroteens.

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Connecting Homeless Youth and Shelter Animals: 20-Year-Old Rachel Cohen, Hand2Paw

Have Fun - Do Good

Hand2Paw's mission is to connect homeless teens and shelter animals in a mutually beneficial way. They provide homeless teens with professional skills training and therapeutic experiences. ." - Rachel Cohen Twenty-year-old Rachel Cohen is the Founder and Executive Director of Hand2Paw.

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

Museum 2.0

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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Teenagers and Social Participation

Museum 2.0

Many teens love to perform for each other. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres. Second, teens today are incredibly aware of "stranger danger." More so than teens in the past, teens today have grown up in a culture of fear around engagement with strangers. They like to do and touch and make.

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Museums and Relevance: What I Learned from Michael Jackson

Museum 2.0

By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. It is apropos that the EMPSFM workshop was focused on how the museum can deepen relationships with teen audiences. Do these teens need EMPSFM to survive? Probably not.

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

Museum 2.0

Don't assume that content/form that is relevant to you or your existing audiences will be relevant to people from other backgrounds. Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. It's rooted in the assets and needs of creative teens in our County.

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Temple Contemporary and the Puzzle of Sharing Powerful Processes

Museum 2.0

Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders. The cuts were so deep that school music rooms are full of unplayable instruments. One of TUPAC's current questions is about the state of art education.

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