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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

Candid

I shared about my great-grandmother, “Lil Mama,” who was born in Louisiana 30 years after the end of slavery and lived until 108. She and my great-grandfather worked as sharecroppers while raising eight children. We each had the opportunity to elevate a woman from the past who is a part of our journey.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum. The institutions that seem most prey to a "cookie cutter" approach are science centers and children's museums.

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

And I know you’ve got a little cold, but that’s what children give you. I have one organization that serves children and they show the smile or the eyes of the child, but we don’t see the actual whole person. As Steven knows and a few of you on the session here know, I don’t have children. Steven: Yes.

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Better Together: What Collaboration Strategies are Necessary to Increase Nonprofit Effectiveness?

ASU Lodestar Center

Data was compiled from various studies which included children and their families within the child welfare system and researchers noticed that between 40 and 86 percent of these children involved in child welfare or juvenile justice systems were seriously emotionally disturbed and a high number of these children remained untreated (Chuang, 2010).

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[VIDEO] Counting the Costs: Where Capital Campaigns Often Miss the Mark

Bloomerang

Additionally, you know, right now paint’s hard to find, or is becoming harder to find because last year there was an ice storm in Texas and Louisiana, and of which is where most of our paint is refined and made and, you know, shipped out to Home Depot and Sherwin-Williams. So there’s a need. That’s the lane they run in. .

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Bryant Terry: Eco-chef, Food Justice Activist, Author of Vegan Soul Kitchen

Have Fun - Do Good

But, as an adult, the moment that catalyzed my work was when I was in graduate school at NYU studying history, and I learned about the Black Panthers' Free Breakfast for Children program. It's a traditional Louisiana dish that's eaten during Lent. I don't know if they would have described it that way. It's called a number of things.