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Bridging the Opportunity Divide – Empowering Youth to Imagine and Realize their Futures

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Matt Howard is a young man who is involved with one of Microsoft’s newly announced youth partner nonprofits, Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). Peter has extensive international experience in Latin America and Africa and discussed the problems and solutions he sees from the ground. A video of her story is here.

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5 Things to Look Forward to at MCON 2015

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In each of these five Learning Labs, participants will gather for an interactive time of teaching and discussion. to meet artists and solicit assignments from them that everyone can participate in. Brady Josephson of Chimp will also lead one of the learning labs. The Art Assignment. Another film, Body Team 12.

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Why Engaging Your Volunteers Will Help Your NPO Thrive

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HALO, which works with disadvantaged youth in Missouri and Africa, gives this award as part of a handful of awards at an annual happy hour to honor the volunteers. “We This year as HALO celebrates its 10th anniversary, they will offer their first formal awards recognizing the top volunteer, donor, advocate and artist for the past decade. “We

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5 Things to Look Forward to at MCON 2015

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In each of these five Learning Labs, participants will gather for an interactive time of teaching and discussion. to meet artists and solicit assignments from them that everyone can participate in. Brady Josephson of Chimp will also lead one of the learning labs. The Art Assignment takes viewers and participants around the U.S.

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Have Fun * Do Good iMix

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Proud by Heather Small & Various Artists (from the Queer as Folk soundtrack). Don't Give Up (Africa) by Alicia Keys & Bono This is a remake of Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush's,"Don't Give Up." Have Fun * Do Good Mix 1. is about living with integrity in all aspects of your life. It was released in honor of World AIDS day this year.

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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

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Then, I started going around the country teaching workshops around spiritual activism: why it's important to take your yoga off the mat and into the world, and the different ways that we can get involved. When I went in to meet these kids, I thought I'd teach them a little bit of yoga, help them out. I'm pretty confident we can do it.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? I just want to dispel the myth that we are not activists and that we are not artists. I've worked in the corporate world, I've worked in the political world, I've worked in teaching when I was in grad school. First of all, who identifies with the word "activism"?

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