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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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

This could mean getting aid after a disaster to those that need it by working directly with a local community foundation or addressing a significant need in your community. As partnership openings arise, you’ll be set up to respond quickly if those relationships already exist.

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Boston Collaboration Help Literacy 27

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2016

It worked so well because the action is easy to do and is already part of a person’s normal routine. This type of rhetoric doesn’t tend to work well with donors. On a mission to decrease the number of teens smoking, the Truth Campaign chose not to talk down to teens or feature an adult telling teens not to smoke.

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Teen Social Empowerment Audience 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. Emily started by honing in on local teens' assets: creativity, activist energy, desire to make a difference, desire to be heard, free time in the afternoon. She surveyed existing local programs.

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Teen Museum Voice Collaboration 20

Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

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. Image 1: SF OpenData.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

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.

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Organization Disaster Boston Blackbaud 26

NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Transcending "Social:" Visibility and Empowerment In An Uber-Mega-Meta Self-Conscious Age Speaker: Jianda Johnson, Business and Resource Development Specialist, Guadalupe Montessori School. American teens still send more SMS than any other type of message, and send more SMS than any other age group.

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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? I''m curious to know: has The Participatory Museum played a role in your work? What is participation for?

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

This " Demo Spotlight " highlighted six upcoming games to present their work in front of a stellar jury: Frank Lantz of Zynga New York and NYU, Ken Perlin of the Games for Learning Institute , and Connie Yowell from the MacArthur Foundation. SOS_SLAVES. Include "embedded assessment" (tracking hits, how long a player is on the site, etc).

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Game Change Classroom Machinima 81

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Over the last year, the work of Traveling Postcards keeps crossing my path, so I asked its founder, Caroline Lovell, to share with us: How Traveling Postcards works The path that brought her to this work Her favorite Traveling Postcards success story How we can get involved with Traveling Postcards I've posted her answers below.

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

They hope to reach out to residents and spark conversations about philanthropic work and to give advice and assistance to residents who want to advance charitable causes. 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.

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Virtual Philanthropy Foundation Second Life 50

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 20, 2009

Recently, Bebo hosted an all-day event for members of the No to Knives and Crime Coalition, as well as others working in the sector of positive youth engagement in London and beyond. Youth Empowerment with Social Media. Has your organization tackled issues in the youth community and used new technologies to support your work?

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