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Connecting Homeless Youth and Shelter Animals: 20-Year-Old Rachel Cohen, Hand2Paw

Have Fun - Do Good

"It's a novel idea that homeless youth have so much to offer, and that these youth could really make the difference at this shelter. Hand2Paw's mission is to connect homeless teens and shelter animals in a mutually beneficial way. Hand2Paw's mission is to connect homeless teens and shelter animals in a mutually beneficial way.

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Sustaining Innovation Part 3: Interview With Sarah Schultz of the Walker Art Center

Museum 2.0

This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. One key idea that Paul Light talks about is the notion of slack. It's inherent in what we do.

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Authenticity and Demystifying the Artistic Process: Walker Art Center Blogs - Part 2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, for a museum that is presenting contemporary art -- anything that helps us demystify the artistic process and better understand the art is, in my opinion, a good thing. This Walker Blog let's us peer into the inner workings of the art institution. it allows the public to see what goes into making an art center.

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

When I first started myspace.com/nonprofitorganizations almost 4 years ago I had no idea that it would evolve to become as large as it has, or that the brand/community/concept would spread to Facebook , then YouTube , and now Twitter. Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known.

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Crowd Fundraising for the Arts: No Running, Walking, or Freezing Plunges Required

Connection Cafe

After jumping in, you swam across the short length of the hole (about 10 yards), and emerge, wet and freezing, only to get to race through temps in the teens to try to warm up in a lukewarm hot tub. Here are 3 arts and cultural organizations that have given crowd fundraising a go for compelling causes: National Air & Space Museum.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

Art spaces masquerading as laundromats and letterpresses. Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits. Want some waffles with your art? Skill-sharing free schools. Community science workshops.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

Hundreds of unique, hand-made art postcards, containing words of compassion and solidarity are hand delivered to individuals and communities all over the world, bringing connection, hope, visibility and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence or repression. Each card is a piece of art in my mind.