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How Cross-Sector Collaboration is Helping Fight Youth Unemployment in Boston

Connection Cafe

Inspiration can come from an assortment of places, but to be connected to collaborative opportunities you need to have relationships across different organizations in your community. John Hancock was approached by the mayor of Boston in 2008 with a collaborative opportunity that falls in the latter category.

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4 bbcon Takeaways for Philanthropic Organizations to Power 2019 Planning

Connection Cafe

Takeaway #4: Collaboration is necessary to solve the big issues today. . The program relies on multiple partners including the city of Boston, Boston University, local nonprofits, EVERFI , Boston’s Center for Teen Empowerment , and others. That means funds, manpower, data collection, and more. .

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Nonprofits and App Developers Combine Forces for Community Change

Tech Soup

She wanted to create something that teens and adults could use and that was also free. The Community Resilience Platform also pulls together important information for citizens, but specifically in times of disaster. Crowdfunding Help. Of all the projects presented, the Detroit Water Project might be the most well-known.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

Our museum is highly participatory: plenty of opportunities for visitors to contribute, for artists to collaborate, for community members to co-create. Whether you think that''s incredible or a disaster depends on your point of view. Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA.

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The Future of Mobiles for Nonprofits

NTEN

I could point to the Haiti disaster as the tipping point in cell phones -- for the increased engagement with donors, and more importantly, for the contributions of information from survivors. The Teen Party. feels like being asked to write about the details of a party after having just walked in the door. But you already know this. .

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[VIDEO] Get More Grants with Donor Cultivation

Bloomerang

And that was that funders are collaborating so much more together than they ever have before. Now, some of you are probably like, “Oh, that sounds like a disaster.” So that may sound like common sense, but I’ve seen some kind of disasters happen that way, so I want to make sure that you don’t fall into that.

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