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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

It has been almost three weeks since we concluded bbcon 2018 in Orlando, and we’re still wrapping our head around the terrific content seen and inspiring conversations overheard amongst over 2,000 attendees from across the social, private and public sectors. If you’re just starting this process, consider the creation of a logic model.

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Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook"

Forum One

Some Federal agencies are experimenting with fascinating approaches to public engagement online, even in the absence of specific guidance about how they should approach these online opportunities. s Open Government Directive, which is expected to address how agencies should proceed on open data approaches, and on online public engagement.

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Sustaining Innovation Part 3: Interview With Sarah Schultz of the Walker Art Center

Museum 2.0

In my experience, innovation is about flexibility, capacity, and collaborative relationships. In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience. We created a teen arts council, invested in staff, and invested in programming. And the guards were watching them; they didn't trust teens.

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Nonprofits and App Developers Combine Forces for Community Change

Tech Soup

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? She wanted to create something that teens and adults could use and that was also free. We use apps to capture memories, keep track of tasks, entertain ourselves, and communicate. Crowdfunding Help.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. Elsewhere Collaborative (Greensboro, NC). As Streb explains, "SLAM is an open-access venue that models a new kind of artist-driven community institution.

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Games for Change: An Interview with Darren Garrett of Littleloud

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A key factor in enabling the project to happen was trust and collaboration from C4. Part of Channel 4's remit is Public Service Broadcasting. One of their key objectives is address issues that affect teens and give them some tools to negotiate them. This audience spends a great deal of time online, often playing games.

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