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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

Mary Mwende told us about her journey from Mombasa, Kenya, to being one of ten girls chosen for the Global Give Back Circle , a mentoring and empowerment program. Peter has extensive international experience in Latin America and Africa and discussed the problems and solutions he sees from the ground.

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The Intangible Rewards of Nonprofit Work

ASU Lodestar Center

As a member of the board of YNPN (Young Nonprofit Professionals Network) Phoenix, I have been fortunate to cross paths with some extraordinary emerging leaders, facilitators, mentors, and nonprofit sector thought leaders. Like this article? Get another!

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Interview with My Dad, Tom Aageson, Co-Founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship

Have Fun - Do Good

Since moving to Santa Fe, he has developed New Mexico Creates , an economic development initiative that creates market links for New Mexico artists and artisans. That can mean, for example, language; it can mean architecture; it can mean food; it can mean artisan work, or artistic work. We developed; for example, a juried show.

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The Art of Tech: Zero1 Festival App to Capture the Crowd

Tech Soup

For Zero1, an organization whose mission is at the intersection of art and technology, a tech-based approach to this problem makes perfect sense. A Tech Advisory Committee of nine Bay Area technologists such as Kollective Mobile CEO Sian Morson mentored the teams. A Community Comes Together. The Teams Get to Work.

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Equity in Arts Funding: We're Not There Yet. We're Not Even Close.

Museum 2.0

This is one of those important problems we were talking about last week. There's the barrier of artistic quality--funders, trustees, or staff members who argue that work by non-canonical artists is not up to the standards of the institution. You should read this report. He got to see the museum process from the inside.

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How Gen Z Donors Harness the Power of Online Giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Well-informed, constantly connected, and more tech-confident than your aunt Jan, they’re taking on the world’s problems, one online fundraiser at a time. And despite their youth (its oldest members are only now leaving their teens), kids in Generation Z are regularly rocking social media for social good. Small Givers, Big Impact.

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Experts Weigh-In on Nonprofit Website Design Best Practices

Connection Cafe

Jobs to be Done Theory is about understanding what problems the website is solving for and the its responsibilities to end users and the organization, and then deciding how well is it performing those tasks. I also think you should steal like an artist. TJ Nicolaides has been solving complex technical problems for over a decade.

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