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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

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. The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. 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! MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in Second Life and the role of philanthropy. The John D.

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