Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Over the last ten years, the MLK Scholars Program has brought together partners from across the social, public and private sectors to enact positive change in the Boston community. Knowing that they would not be able to create long-term impact alone, the MLK Scholars Program was born. How did these groups come together?

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Boston Collaboration Help Literacy 27

Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

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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Teen Arts Classroom Student 25

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

It has been almost three weeks since we concluded bbcon 2018 in Orlando, and we’re still wrapping our head around the terrific content seen and inspiring conversations overheard amongst over 2,000 attendees from across the social, private and public sectors. With over 275 sessions over three days, opportunities for learning were plentiful.

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Organization Disaster Boston Blackbaud 26

NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Discover how the power of social sharing can shine a light on a serious issue and poke fun at the inanity of discrimination. Social Good Shark Tank Speaker: Peter Panepento, Principal, Panepento Strategies. If we really want to unleash the full power of social networks and online fundraising to advance change, we need to do more.

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NTC Slides Digital Director 36

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Every time we encourage a volunteer to launch her own collections research, or empower teens to launch their own program series, or invite new partners into our projects, we invite them to participate. Empowerment? Social bridging? But I''ve learned that humans can be agents of scale too. This choice was strategic.

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. Fusing current and historical human trafficking tales, players of SOS_Slaves will take on the roles of both victims and social activists.

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Game Change Classroom Machinima 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Open spaces like the Internet are always going to be about empowerment and you need to have tolerance. Teen Listening Party and Global Kids coverage. Fanton: I've been reading recently about newspapers and articles that aren't entirely positive. Can you talk about security and pornography issues? Linden: You mentioned pornography.

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Virtual Philanthropy Foundation Second Life 50

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

Youth Empowerment with Social Media. If you are looking for more examples about social media and communications technologies applied to youth empowerment, here are some additional links/groups to check out: [link] (social media used as outreach about teen dating violence).

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Social Media Empowerment Case Study Congo 192