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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

Mission: Through education and advocacy, the Colorado Mental Wellness Network seeks to provide opportunities for individuals to improve the quality of their lives, give back to the community through meaningful roles, and to change the perceptions of mental health. Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens.

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Guest Post by Nina Simon -- Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you have a bunch of novice friends, it can be maddening to find appropriate “sous chef” roles for them to fill. It takes a special kind of cook, artist, or scientist to want to support the contributions of novices. But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.” It’s like cooking.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. “Many of the games at Babycastles don’t fit the traditional definitions of the medium; they veer closer to artistic experiementation than they do to mass-market viability.&# – New York Times.

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Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Museum 2.0

If you have a bunch of novice friends, it can be maddening to find appropriate “sous chef” roles for them to fill. It takes a special kind of cook, artist, or scientist to want to support the contributions of novices. But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.” It’s like cooking.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

Our museum is highly participatory: plenty of opportunities for visitors to contribute, for artists to collaborate, for community members to co-create. I''m curious to know: has The Participatory Museum played a role in your work? Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA.

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Six New Games for Change: Check Out the Future of Gaming for Good

NTEN

” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. Fusing current and historical human trafficking tales, players of SOS_Slaves will take on the roles of both victims and social activists.

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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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