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How to Apply Service Design to the Social Sector

Forum One

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. They are using service design to better serve their community’s changing needs.

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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

Museum 2.0

Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. We have neighborhood newspapers, internationally-renowned magazines of political commentary, and three View-Master reels of Chicago hot dog stands, neon signs, and motor inns, respectively. We’re not even talking about “radical librarians.”

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Fundraising on the Blockchain: What Nonprofits Need to Know

Top Nonprofits

Michael serves on the board of Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago where he lives. Additionally, Rebecca is a digital mapper for the Tanzania Development Trust mapping rural Tanzania to aid the work of local anti-FGM activists. michael.sullivan@thegivingblock.com [link].

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[UPCOMING WEBINAR] Fundraising on the Blockchain: What Nonprofits Need to Know

Top Nonprofits

Michael serves on the board of Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in Chicago where he lives. Additionally, Rebecca is a digital mapper for the Tanzania Development Trust mapping rural Tanzania to aid the work of local anti-FGM activists. michael.sullivan@thegivingblock.com [link].

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A Guide to bbcon 2021 Virtual for Arts & Cultural Organizations

sgEngage

Dan Sullivan, Head of Growth & Partnerships at Cuseum, will host a panel discussion with Adrian Hill at Chicago Children’s Museum, Amanda Tadajewski at Tellus Science Museum, and Elizabeth Bowers at Anne Springs Close Greenway to discuss the future of virtual membership. This will help you pick your sessions.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world. Another great example of what Voluntweeters can do is the case of Red Cross voluntweeters responding to the more recent February 2011 Chicago blizzard. Image: AlphachimpStudio.

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NetSquared Volunteers Help Nonprofits Like You Master Technology

Tech Soup

Chicago, Illinois: Justice Data Lab: Unlocking Government Administrative Data. Chicago, Illinois: Knowledge Mapping for Greater Social Good. Chicago, Illinois: Is the Cloud Right for Your Nonprofit? Chicago, Illinois: Getting Started Measuring Your Impact When There's No Way You'll Do an RCT.