Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

For the last time this summer, I'm sharing a chapter from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. This chapter, from the last section of the book, is very personal to me. One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?"

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Teen Arts Classroom Student 25

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 8, 2022

The images of whales washing ashore with bellies full of plastic trash is proof enough: we need a Material Revolution that makes plastic a relic of our toxic past. This isn’t true, and it puts the onus of responsibility unfairly on the consumer when just 20 companies produce more than half of the world’s single-use plastic waste.

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Maldives Environment Collaboration Life 52

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Today, 826 has chapters in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Michigan, and Boston. You can find more information about the various chapters and how to volunteer with them at www.826national.org. Organizations like these teach everything from sports, to science, to the arts, to girl empowerment.

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Public San Francisco Volunteer Los Angeles 41

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Many of them had almost nothing by way of material resources, but they had imagination, and if you have imagination, you can, it turns out, light the dark with all kinds of creative arts. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing.

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Photography Interview Zimbabwe Change 40