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The Happy Healthy Social Change Activist: Passion for a Cause without Burnout

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Last week I was honored to be a counselor at Museum Camp , an annual professional development event hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. Teams worked on their zines until the end of the camp.

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The Secret To Social Media Engagement: Kiss A Squirrel!

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So not every nonprofit or social cause can employ humor in its tool box, but that is not the point here. Here’s another example of how Billboard is using nostalgia in its tweets: This Week In Billboard Chart History: TLC Takes ‘No Scrubs’ To No. Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. To apply the results of my analysis to produce a community-driven program design specifically for implementation at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (the MAH). You can download and read the full version of my thesis here.

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Designing Interactives for Adults: Put Down the Dayglow

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There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. There's a huge difference between the edgy, DIY beauty of Candy Chang 's participatory urban artworks and the dayglow colors, exclamatory language , and preschool fonts of most museum interactives.

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Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Systems Mapping for Non-Profits - Part 1

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A Learning History of the CARE LAC - Institute for Strategic Clarity Guatemala Poverty Project. Mental Models: These visuals describe how people (individuals, groups) think the world works, such as theories of change, power structures, and cause-effect models in general. Key is a participatory development process.

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5 Games Supporting Nonprofits’s Missions, from Low-Tech to High-Tech

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Games — both digital and analog — provide a great opportunity for inviting players to interact with a real-world causes and societal challenges. government and encouraging participatory democracy. Kennedy (EMK) Institute to support it in educating the public about U.S. and abroad through their work in games, film, and print.

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Guest Post by Geoff Livingston: Creating Movements

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And the many, many hyper local and niche causes that touch the lives of their online communities not by the millions, but by the hundreds or thousands everyday. People are writing their own stories and ideas about our cause rather than us publishing content. I began our talk today with my personal nonprofit history.

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