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Center for the Future of Museums: Khan Academy & Cultural Understanding

AFP Blog

Center for the Future of Museums: Khan Academy & Cultural Understanding : Smarthistory at Khan Academy is used by museum visitors, independent learners, professors, teachers and their students. We’ve begun to partner with museums to bring their formidable expertise to a global audience (often by simply repurposing pre-existing content).

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Building a Global Library

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A tech guy from Egypt was the standout moment for me so far. I was attending a session organized by the library association, IFLA, and he got up and talked about how Egypt does not have a culture of reading. His point was the 5 million Internet users in Egypt are the people who do read.

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Science and Technology Partnerships with Africa: Opportunities for European Foundations

Tech Soup

This well-attended session featured eleven scientists who are dedicated to embedding scientific and technological awareness, capacity, innovation and application in the culture, commerce and aspirations of every African society. read more.

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Diversity in Design: Inclusion Won’t Fix a Broken System

Media Cause

We read articles mapping out the “perfect face” according to the Greek ratio of Phi but we never question why Greek history is the arbiter of truth in many cases when much of Greek philosophy was stolen from Egypt. By focusing on minimalism, we’re creating a world devoid of diverse ideas, cultures, and expressions. But At What Cost?

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Video Streaming Apps — To Stream or Not to Stream

Tech Soup

We saw how Twitter changed information-sharing in 2011 Egypt, after all. Broadcasting news or community happenings — if you or your mission engage in community or cultural work on the ground or in the streets, show your members what grassroots activism or engagement looks like! Live Streaming and Appropriation. spanhidden.

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60+ Spring Fundraising Ideas for Every Nonprofit

Qgiv

Passover celebration fundraiser Passover is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the Israelites’ escape from slavery and departure from ancient Egypt. You can have parents sign up their kids as participants, and you can raise funds through ticket sales and through selling refreshments or merchandise.

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Wendy Sternberg Leaves Her Medical Career to Heal the World

See3

GATC mission “is to bridge cultures in conflict through the arts and to create innovative arts-education programs around the world.&#. The organisation began uniting musicians from cultures in conflict in 2004 with the pairing of a Jewish-Moroccan and a Muslim-Moroccan musicians.