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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Bloomerang

Similar to the list I shared for nonprofits focusing on education , arts and culture tends to be a very popular issue area for American foundations. The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. Funding Priority: Arts & Culture. Ford Foundation.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Kindful

Similar to the list I shared for nonprofits focusing on education , arts and culture tends to be a very popular issue area for American foundations. The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. Funding Priority: Arts & Culture. Ford Foundation.

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Bookshare Creates Opportunities For Gifted Students

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Steffon Middleton and Jessica Pinto have both mastered the art of searching and downloading Bookshare’s accessible texts. Jessica, who is a junior at Manzano High School in Albuquerque, is a straight-A student and a member of the National Honor Society. She is learning so much because I am not having to read her books to her.”

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Launching the First Wave of the OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network

Museum 2.0

The First Wave includes 6 museums, 5 performing arts organizations, 3 public libraries, 3 parks, and 3 community centers. In the future, we look forward to taking what we learn from this First Wave to build a strong Change Network with organizations all over the world. Half are led by people of color or indigenous people.

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Content from AAM: Virtual Worlds and Eye on Design slides (and more)

Museum 2.0

View | Upload your own After the session, Jonathan Finkelstein, author of Learning in Real Time and blogger behind Real Time Minute , interviewed the panelists (sadly, I was rushing to session #2 and could not join them). You can view the slides here, or download them by clicking "view" in the player below.

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Plants! Natural Materials! Review of Explora!, a Peaceful, Delightful Science Center

Museum 2.0

So imagine my delight to visit Explora in Albuquerque. There are few instructions, and the experience seemed to be genuinely about exploring as opposed to learning information. There were also beautiful art/science posters on most walls around the science center. I never knew a science center could be so peaceful.

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Happy New Year! Two Free Books! And Watermelon!

Museum 2.0

While I did learn a ton from my experiences, especially in far-flung places and small museums, it was also exhausting. A quick top five list of amazing experiences in no particular order: ArtPrize , the democratic art festival in Grand Rapids that blew my mind Taiwan. Explora (Albuquerque, NM). Everything about it.

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