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NTEN Celebrates National Volunteer Week: Shout out to Community of Practice leaders!

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This week is National Volunteer Week ! accidental techie arts blogging commbuild Community community of practice consulting data drupal it Leadership women' To recognize the tireless work of volunteers that support the nonprofit sector, we’ll be publishing a blog post every day this week to celebrate their contributions.

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50 Nonprofits Every U.S. Politican Should Follow on Twitter

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They are active in our communities, in our schools, and have valuable knowledge and experience that our nation’s elected officials could learn from and be inspired by, and yet very few U.S. Americans for the Arts :: @ Americans4Arts. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People :: @ NAACP. Ashoka :: @ Ashoka.

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Art and Aging: Tim Carpenter of EngAGE

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One of its project is the Burbank Senior Artists Colony , a first-of-its-kind senior apartment community with high-end arts amenities and programs (how cool is that?). The NOHO Senior Arts Colony and the Long Beach Senior Arts Colony will open in 2012. 14 (Berkeley, CA): Tea and Cupcakes with Creative Bloggers (Bring a friend!:

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Joint Statement from Museum Bloggers and Colleagues on Ferguson and Related Events

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Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. Schools and other arts organizations are rising to the challenge. Can we be as brave and direct as these young women?

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NTEN Celebrates National Volunteer Week: Honoring NTEN Committee Members

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This week is National Volunteer Week ! Debra Askanase, Director of Outreach, National Brain Tumor Society. Sean King, Director of Youth Education in the Arts, USBands. Lauren Hasey Maher, Program Manager, National Center for Family Philanthropy. Emily Weinberg, Nonprofit Blogger. Robert Weiner, President, Robert L.

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Blame the Crowd, Not the Camera: Challenges to a New Open Photo Policy at the National Gallery

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The posts come from an aptly-named blog: Grumpy Art Historian. Blogger Michael Savage and I rarely see eye-to-eye, and that''s why I love reading his posts. Last week, he wrote a series of posts about the British National Gallery''s reversal of their photo policy. We push the once-in-a-lifetime experience of seeing the art.

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Lead or Follow: Arts Administrators Hash it Out

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Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more? Here are three of my favorites.

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