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How Cross-Sector Collaboration is Helping Fight Youth Unemployment in Boston

Connection Cafe

Have you interacted with your local government, or spoken to your peers about their programs? John Hancock was approached by the mayor of Boston in 2008 with a collaborative opportunity that falls in the latter category. Where does your organization sit in your community? How did these groups come together?

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Generational Giving at Arts & Cultural Organizations – A Donor Story

Connection Cafe

Anyone reading this blog that lives in the New England area may know that the symphony I was raised around is the Boston Symphony Orchestra. My youth was flooded by a series of Wednesday night rehearsals, regular BSO concerts, and multiple summer weekends spent at Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony in Lenox, Massachusetts.

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Free Webinar: Using Mobile Technologies for Outreach and Education - July 16

Tech Soup

She will interview Adam Shyevitch, Teen Initiative Director at Boston After School & Beyond , who will share information about how their organization is using mobile technology for their outreach efforts. read more.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m. The design of media is for more activist and personal interaction.

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

I went to two science centers, one huge (Museum of Science Boston) and one tiny (Acton Science Discovery Museum), and told them: "I'll work for you for free for three months, and then let's talk about whether you are going to pay me." By the spring of 2003 I felt I'd learned what I could in Boston and tried to figure out where to go next.

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Visitor Voices Book Club: Talking Back

Museum 2.0

At the Boston Museum of Science's video kiosk on wind power, 3/4 of people were most interested in making their own video (as opposed to watching others). Chris Lawrence writes about one group of teens who addressed the Society directly as a "you" embodying white privilege. And now onto the show. Video is a whole other animal.

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Book Club Part 3b: Talking Institutional Change with Elaine Gurian

Museum 2.0

So Strong did that a long time ago, and a lot of people went to experience the study storage, but still enough people didn’t come, so then they decided to become an interactive children’s museum. And that what’s happened with the revolution at Boston—everyone else thought we were cute and inconsequential. is very interesting.

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