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One Nonprofit’s Anniversary Celebration Turns into a Bright Idea

NonProfit Hub

Lighthouse, which provides after-school programming for teenagers, has sponsored a public art project for the past several months in Lincoln, Neb., Lighthouse’s use of lightbulbs and public art didn’t just act as a way to toot their horn, but it also provided awareness about their needs and served as a fundraiser.

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One Nonprofit’s Anniversary Celebration Turns into a Bright Idea

NonProfit Hub

Lighthouse, which provides after-school programming for teenagers, has sponsored a public art project for the past several months in Lincoln, Neb., Lighthouse’s use of lightbulbs and public art didn’t just act as a way to toot their horn, but it also provided awareness about their needs and served as a fundraiser.

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The Tate Tastes 2.0: The Turner Prize Exhibition

Museum 2.0

This week's New Yorker magazine features an article about the Turner Prize, "the world's best-known contemporary-art competition." The Turner Prize was launched in 1984 by the Tate Britain to reward young British artists, and has had controversial effects on both public perception of contemporary art--and the artists themselves.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

Journalism is really the act of informing communities so that they can make better decisions, that is part of the public service, informing communities so that together we can know where else we need to help." --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us "You cannot run a community if you're not informed. When I first heard David Cohn talk about Spot.us

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

American Edmonia "Wildfire" Lewis is considered the first woman of Native American and African descent to achieve international fame as a sculptor at a time when artists of color were hardly celebrated and slavery was still legal. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art.

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The Eye of the Beholder

Museum 2.0

But this week, two articles about art, in the NYT and the Washington Post Magazine respectively, called out to be combined into a post about the role of visitors in art interpretation. The NYT article is about a photography show by artist Thomas Struth at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Manhattan. What are we looking for in a museum?

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Click here to download this article as it appears in the magazine, with accompanying artwork. an hour, and a national survey of Instacart workers found average wages (before expenses) of just $9.50 “KAINJI” BY KOMI OLAFIMIHAN/WWW.KOMIOLAF.COM. 36 Farmers can begin using the site for free, and commissions on food sales are very low.

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