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Launching the First Wave of the OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network

Museum 2.0

Our goal is to help civic and cultural institutions become more representative OF, co-created BY, and welcoming FOR their diverse communities. We've see this model succeed at the MAH and at other community-centered organizations around the world. We see OF/BY/FOR ALL as an adaptable playbook for community change.

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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

Two such organizations are Apps for Good and Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab , which are teaching youth to learn, create, and improve their communities through the development of apps. is an organization based out of Oakland, California. competition Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab is encouraging community.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

As part of the Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore apps targeted toward youth as well as apps developed by youth. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project.

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

Have Fun - Do Good

." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy. I'm going to be great here in Oakland. I'm going to be green.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and community voting process with staff and advisory board feedback. We are creating dramatically more engaging websites for clients like the Sierra Club, Community Gatepath, IFAW and the Arthritis Foundation. With snacks! Do they make a difference?

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

We are based in Oakland, but we do work nationally, and in many cases globally, but our funding is always under constraints. I grew up in Florida in a pretty narrow-minded, and very closed South Asian community. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

It's a very creative town, very community oriented, and the energy there is very supportive. There's a need, the women are responding, and our community is doubling over the last year, so we really are at a point of expansion and scaling. We have such a large community, our network is over 40,000, who is depending on us.

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