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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. The art of storytelling though, and documenting an event or a slice of time is, of course, not restricted to bound pages. At that time I made a blog and raised $2,000 using Chipin.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

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. They were using music, dance, poetry, and storytelling, and they were succeeding. BB: Why do you think the arts is such a powerful tool?