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Hold a BLOCKBUSTER Virtual Event Like The Dougy Center

Greater Giving

As a result, The Dougy Center—a nonprofit organization based in Portland, Oregon that helps children dealing with grief and loss—raised enough money to support their programs for another year, and saw participation from donors around the US, North America, and across the globe. Feel the FOMO!

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Amy Potthast, Idealist.org: How I Have Fun and Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

The third guest post in my have fun, do good blogger series is by Amy Potthast. You can follow her on Twitter, @amypotthast How do I have fun and do good? — Johns — my North Portland, Oregon, neighborhood — I've been working this year on a new, all-volunteer mentoring program for local teen parents.

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Storymakers 2016 Winners

Tech Soup

Imagine children around the United States learning mindfulness. Then imagine how this teaching can impact children's lives, transforming their journey through life. The viewer is left imagining the future, wondering what stories these children will tell themselves someday. Story of Tomorrow Winner — SEEDS final.

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Member Appreciation Month wrap-up: #ntenthanks, event archives, and the grand prize winners!

NTEN

One of the most fun aspects of Member Appreciation Month has been the daily prize giveaways. Aside from the fun of feeling like a fairy godmother or a genie with our “Guess what?! This month we saw a bunch of great Tech Club events, including the launch of our Pittsburgh group , a fun happy hour put on by the Dallas-Ft.

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Maximizing Your Membership Program: Tips from the Experts

Connection Cafe

Children’s museums have all the challenges that all membership driven organization have… PLUS they have children, and therefore their members, aging out of their institutions every year. With a target age often between 1 and 8, children’s museums find that 1/8 of their children age out every year.

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Kid-Tested, Hipster-Approved: How Austin’s Thinkery Curated a Whole New Audience.

Connection Cafe

It’s safe to say this town is up there trending with those other ‘cool hipster’ cities like Brooklyn and Portland. Well, in some pretty big ways if you talk to the team at Thinkery , who just created Thinkery21 , an evening of fun created just for this demographic. Oh, Austin, TX. Genius, Thinkery, genius!

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Making Alternative Meaning out of Museum Artifacts

Museum 2.0

The Odditoreum is a temporary gallery for the summer school holiday in which the Powerhouse is displaying eighteen very odd objects alongside fanciful (and fictitious) labels written by children's book author Shaun Tan, schoolchildren, and visitors. People are having fun with this experience, and who can blame them?

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