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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

Focus group participants from private, public, community, and historically Black colleges and universities told researchers that many of them had been recipients as well as providers of help since 2020. A]s is often the case, youth are at the forefront,” said Weatherford. “We

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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. A great example is what the Oslo University Hospital implemented.

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Weekly update from PND

Candid

August 17, 2021 The University of Chicago has announced gifts totaling $105 million from board members to launch a $200 million campaign in support of undergraduate financial aid. Independence Public Media Foundation awards grants totaling $4 million. UChicago raises $105 million for challenge campaign for scholarships.

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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. That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street.

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Client Spotlight: National Society of Black Engineers

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The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) is a student-governed, nonprofit organization headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia with chapters at universities all over the world. and George Smith–also known as the “Chicago Six–contacted all 288 accredited engineering programs in the nation. Background. In 1971, two students–Edward E.

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#14LCS Series: Meet Emily Lonigro Boylan and Demetrio Cardona-Maguigad

NTEN

Emily , who founded LimeRed Studio ten years ago, has a portfolio spanning business development, design, user experience, writing, marketing, and strategy in both online and offline programs for multinational corporations, nonprofits, universities, boutique businesses, and prestigious consumer brands.

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Guest Post: Stories of Volunteer Managers, Technology, and the Pandemic

Twenty Hats

Over the past year, our research team at Arizona State University has conducted the Technology Evolution in Volunteer Management, or “TEVA” project. The [public] transit didn’t go there.”. It was their employees in Chicago and Atlanta. But among the storm clouds, there were some silver linings. It wasn’t!