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Storymakers Past Winners: In Their Own Words

Tech Soup

” She also told us that their Youth Projects’ video was aired nationally on the Foxtel network in Australia. Our audience choice award for 2012 went to Alliance Center for Independence (ACI) in Edison, New Jersey. It gives older youth and young adults an opportunity to share their stories directly with the public.

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Cause Camp 2017 Speaker Lineup Announcement

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This ongoing study has been cited in hundreds of publications, including Forbes, TIME, Fast Company, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. He is a regular contributor to Philanthropy News Digest and the Huffington Post IMPACT Channel. Derrick Feldmann. Achieve Agency. John Haydon.

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Lawsuit over denying access to a student with learning disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We're up to more than 125,000 users, with over 95,000 books available, and our users are now accessing content at a rate of more than million downloads per year! We're really proud of the rapid growth of our Bookshare online library for people with print disabilities. What is the school signup process for Bookshare? More than half of U.S.

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How Indigenous Peoples’ Day is Supplanting Columbus Day

Whole Whale

Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday. 1946: The United Nations Charter is signed, without any mention of indigenous peoples. 1972: The United Nations finally recognizes the rights of indigenous people with the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities.

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Guest Post: World Maker Faire and the New York Hall of Science: Radical Trust

Museum 2.0

On September 25 and 26, the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) hosted the first East Coast substantiation of the Maker Faire. Maker Faire is a massive public event, hosted by Make Magazine annually in San Mateo, that brings together hackers, crafters, and do-it-yourself scientists for a weekend of demonstrations and explosions.