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Greater Washington Give to the Max Day Training Event

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Image by Codilicious from Flickr. NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. DC Jazz Festival : With more than 100 performances in dozens of venues across the city, the DC Jazz Festival is the largest music festival in Washington, D.C.

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

Museum 2.0

We use a simple "honeycomb" diagram (image) to do these four steps. The most successful programs fostered youth empowerment and community leadership in various content areas: agriculture, technology, healing. One community of interest are Oaxacan culture-bearers in the nearby Live Oak neighborhood. Subjects to Change was born.

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Six New Games for Change: Check Out the Future of Gaming for Good

NTEN

Created by the Center for Asian American Media, this game hopes to empower young girls, ages 8 - 14, to look past the aspects of life that seem to be male dominated and learn something about themselves and environmental awareness, cross-cultural engagement, team work, and gender equality. JURY FEEDBACK. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

They were using music, dance, poetry, and storytelling, and they were succeeding. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. The little girls are part of a culture, the Shona culture in Zimbabwe, as maybe you know, uses poetry.