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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. Let Guests Give and They’ll Give. 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. Amy is the Director of Service and Graduate Education Programs at Idealist.org , and lives in Oregon with her husband and two sons. You can follow her on Twitter, @amypotthast How do I have fun and do good? — With a group of mom-friends in St.

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Maximizing Your Membership Program: Tips from the Experts

Connection Cafe

As I sat in a session, Membership from Here to There and Everywhere In Between, I had a realization: No one is better at managing membership programs than children’s museums. 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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Storymakers 2016 Winners

Tech Soup

TechSoup is particularly proud that Adobe products , available through our donation program, were used in the video's production. Imagine children around the United States learning mindfulness. Then imagine how this teaching can impact children's lives, transforming their journey through life.

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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. ” – Adrienne Barnett, Public Programs Manager.

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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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Twenty "Fearless" Changemakers

Have Fun - Do Good

Darius Graham | Social Innovation Project | Washington, DC The Social Innovation Project tackles pressing social issues by providing seed funding and resources to help transform ideas into sustainable programs. provides a 12-week afterschool program and 4-month paid apprenticeship wellness program for low-income high school students.