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“Black & Proud”

M+R

While “Say it Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud)” addresses Black love, joy, and empowerment, the proud (on my t-shirt) is focused on self-affirmation, dignity, and equality. Taken together “Black & Proud” is a recognition that we live intersectional lives. That is, there are folks who both identify as Black and queer.

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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. Teen Book Finder (iOS), developed by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), helps teens, parents, teachers, and librarians find the best books and media for teens. Image: App Inventor Workshop ( Flickr ).

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3 Ways Your Creative Can Move Your Social Movement Forward

Connection Cafe

That inspiration and motivation comes from a narrative and images we attach to the movement’s core values and beliefs. The campaign creative told the story of real beauty beyond the typical images that so many were used to seeing. Video: Content that focuses on the individual, not the organization.

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Caravan Studios Showcases Diverse Apps for Social Good

Tech Soup

The city's OpenData goals are to improve city services for residents and businesses, produce jobs, enhance economic opportunities, and increase resident engagement and empowerment. Bedsider was started as support network operated by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Image 1: SF OpenData.

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The Art of Relevance Sneak Peek: Part Ex-Con, Part Farmer, Part Queen

Museum 2.0

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" FoodWhat's staff and teens have taught me a lot about what it really means to be relevant to people who are often overlooked or ignored. Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students.

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

Museum 2.0

We use a simple "honeycomb" diagram (image) to do these four steps. Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. The most successful programs fostered youth empowerment and community leadership in various content areas: agriculture, technology, healing.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

The cards are unique and beautiful and carry the voices of women (and some men) depicted in images and words and offer compassionate healing for those who both make them, and for those who receive them. Our grassroots campaign involves all ages from teens to seniors. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do.