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Giving in America: A look at philanthropy’s history and a unique Candid connection

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About a month ago, Candid was tagged in a social media post from someone who had visited the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Rubenstein Curator of Philanthropy at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Why is it important to this history? . We reached out to Amanda Moniz, Ph.D.,

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Guatemalan National Police Archive Goes Online

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Guatemalan government human rights ombudsman invited the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) to analyze the contents of the estimated 80 million documents in the Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive or the Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional (AHPN).

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Forum One Wins 10 Davey Awards

Forum One

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood, and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. Forum One worked with the National Rural Health Resource Center to design their new website in Drupal 9.

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Building Online Portals for Full-Text Searches of Historical Archives

Forum One

There are billions of historical documents housed in archives, museums, and libraries around the world. The vast majority of these documents do not have full-text transcriptions or indexed data, making them difficult to search and largely inaccessible to historians, students, scholars, and the general public.

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Forum One Takes Home 8 WebAwards!

Forum One

The new American Jazz Museum brand positions the museum to be a beacon of rich history and vibrancy for the community and neighborhood and attract audiences from around the country to experience music from a range of eras and artists. Since then, thousands of volunteers have transcribed hundreds of thousands of image files of the more than 1.7

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Exceptional Digital Experiences for Museums and Cultural Institutions

Forum One

Museums are magical places, where history, culture, art, and science seem to come to life. Created by Congress in 1865, the Freedman’s Bureau helped formerly enslaved people transition to citizenship and documented millions of federal records relating to the refugees, freedmen, and lands abandoned or seized during the Civil War.

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A clarion call to invest in historically Black colleges and universities

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HBCUs lead the nation in conferring bachelor’s degrees to Black graduates who ultimately earn doctorate degrees. Racism, employer bias, and work discrimination are well documented. As a proud alum of two historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), I know how important these institutions are to this nation.