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How to Apply Service Design to the Social Sector

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For example, the Chicago Public Library system created new children’s spaces in their libraries based on extensive visitor research and observed how families and children move through the new spaces and then iterate based on what they find. This is just one example of how the Chicago Public Library incorporates service design into its work.

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How Can You Make An Impact?

Have Fun - Do Good

On a blank piece of paper write (without editing) a long list, or create a mind map, of all of the issues that are important to you ( i.e. health care, education, foreign policy, the arts, crime, poverty, animal rights, environment, local politics, organic food). You can be as general or specific as you like. obama change America

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Bay Localize & Green Roofs: An Interview with Ingrid Severson

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You can listen to my interview with Ingrid on the Big Vision Podcast , or read a transcript here. The second one is the Localization Mapping Project that shows on a GIS map all the different localization projects happening in the nine county region of the Bay Area as a tool that other people can plug into.

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How to Make Your Big Vision Real: Jennifer Lee of Artizen Coaching

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Below is the edited transcript from my Big Vision Podcast interview with Jennifer Lee from January 22, 2009. I think that's the most important thing, getting it on paper whether that be via a collage, a mind map, anything. If someone who you were coaching said, "I want to make a difference. There is a lot of upfront investment.

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Member Round Up: Tools, tools, tools--from storytelling to benchmarking

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Forbes recently interviewed Ami Dar, Founder and Executive Director of Idealist.org , the popular online nonprofit resource for jobs, internships, and volunteers, to get a glimpse of the organization's origins. Read the full interview to get a sense of Ami and his plans for Idealist's future.

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14 Top Nonprofit Websites to Inspire Your Organization

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Project Open Hand’s emphasis on volunteering information, video interviews, blog content, and social media feeds are great examples that you can implement into your own site. The SEEP site’s integrations also enable it to make use of effective interactive tools, like this map of member locations. Nonprofit Website Overview.

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Into the Deep End: What's Keeping Museums from Telling Meaty, In-Depth Stories?

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I just finished listening to This American Life 's incredible two-part series about gun violence at Harper High School in Chicago. Yes, I know that every platform is different, and that the captive attention we afford to radio, TV, and written material doesn't map perfectly to a free-choice wander through an exhibition.

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