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November Cause Awareness: National Native American Heritage Month

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This important awareness month is dedicated to honoring the contributions of Indigenous American Indians and the history of the country’s first stewards. There are plenty of museums and museum exhibits dedicated to telling American Indian history and helping people better understand Indigenous culture.

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Hurricane Sandy Art Relief: An Interview with Elana Haviv

Have Fun - Do Good

CMCE creates academic and artistic programs to help children and youth understand and overcome violent world events. Elana designed The Telling History Project: Understanding the Past to Create the Future , a curriculum to teach students about human rights.

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

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” For nonprofits, this shows the value of thoroughly researching your donors’ demographics, history, and motivations before crafting appeals. For example, long-form storytelling may still convert better than short snippets – the current long-form podcasts that top business charts are showing this.

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Diversity in Design: Inclusion Won’t Fix a Broken System

Media Cause

We read articles mapping out the “perfect face” according to the Greek ratio of Phi but we never question why Greek history is the arbiter of truth in many cases when much of Greek philosophy was stolen from Egypt. Last week, I listened to this podcast about beauty and colonization. Decentering whiteness in design history resources .

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A Revolution in Documentary Film

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But it will be shown in documentary footage in pretty much every other format: in limited theatrical release, on DVD, in short clips on the Internet and even via podcast on mobile devices. We are living in a time of noisy revolution on the streets, from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park. But that is only the jumping off point for the inquiry.

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Khan Academy and the Revolution in Online Free Choice Learning

Museum 2.0

Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, who are well known in museums for their excellent Smarthistory website and podcasts. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

History: Simply being around a long time has some cachet and may mean you have access to historical wisdom, knowledge, and records. Does your organization have a podcast or radio show for promotion? Sometimes a nonprofit has access to world-class chefs, celebrities, artists, or architects or well-known lawmakers. Welcome packet.

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