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October Awareness: Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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History of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. If you have a family history of breast cancer, the BRCA gene test can help you determine what your risk of breast cancer is and help you develop a plan for preventative care. Make healthy lifestyle choices. Zero Breast Cancer. Final thoughts.

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Teenagers, Space-Makers, and Scaling Up to Change the World

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This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

These apps encourage young people to get involved in civic and political issues. Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. The iPad app provides free videos to K-12 students on various topics, including math, science, finance, and history. Apps Made by Youth.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. Every time we encourage a volunteer to launch her own collections research, or empower teens to launch their own program series, or invite new partners into our projects, we invite them to participate. Empowerment?

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Live Blog Post from MacArthur Foundation: Virtual World Event on Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

stream, reading a chat history, answering ims, and taking notes! " He said that MacArthur hopes to make investments to help nonprofits and civil society organizations address serious issues. Can you talk about security and pornography issues? Teen Listening Party and Global Kids coverage. The John D. and Catherine T.

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