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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

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hint: it’s very helpful if you can make your “character” a specific person/animal or small group of people/animals that you can attach names to). For our fictitious story, the plot is that many children only eat one meal a day — dinner. For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MacArthur wants to know: How is digital media changing the way that children learn and develop and what are the implications? Young people have access to computers in schools and libraries, but there is a difference in the quality of experience. Digital media is being shaped by the private sector (YouTube, MySpace, etc).

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Treasure Hunts, Tactile Domes, and Other Layered Beings

Museum 2.0

Ellen explained that in 2005, when she quit her job, she discovered A Treasure's Trove , a children's book by Michael Stadther , in which fireflies and grasshoppers coexist with layered puzzles and mysteries. "What do you mean, treasure hunting?" It was as if I had finally met a real pirate. Not so with museums.

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