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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

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Tutor students so they can reach their potential in school? Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? Or are you looking to open a shelter for teens who have left or been kicked out of their homes, a need totally different than the family shelters in your community.

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Co-Creating Exhibits with Teens and Volunteers: The Importance of Criteria

Museum 2.0

This summer, I worked with the Chabot Space & Science Center on a design institute in which eleven teens from their Galaxy Explorers program designed media pieces for an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition on black holes. There was no initial design, no graphics, and no idea of where the teen' work would fit into an overall structure.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Virtual Volunteering

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Adapting to our circumstances has taught us to utilize the tools we have and find unique ways to do what we have always done by innovating how programs are structured. A lot of the virtual volunteering opportunities listed online right now include helping students, youth, and teens.

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How Will Your Nonprofit Raise Money in 2012?

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For organizations that stick to a more traditional managerial and communications structure between now and then, however, raising money is going to be tougher in 2012 than in the darkest days of 2009. Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. The economy may be hopping four years from now.

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Mall Science: Lessons in Consumer Appeal

Museum 2.0

A museum experience I’ll always remember: In 2002, I worked at the Boston Museum of Science with a program in which high school students from a nearby charter school spent half their school time at the museum. One day when we didn’t have the students, I was walking the floor with another staff member. Plus, malls are cool.

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

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Experimental trails on humans Historical antecedents to modern day “hot button” topics Lecture series Population growth (down arrow) What technology is developed reflects the political structure of a society and its values An exhibit of a plastinated cow or pig as part of a larger Children’s museum exhibition on agriculture.

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