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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Under the theme “Achieving Our Vision through Empowerment and Partnerships,” this was the first-ever combined General Assembly of both WBU and the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment ( ICEVI ), another world-class organization in the field. The November 2012 General Assembly took place in Bangkok, Thailand.

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

Museum 2.0

While art, history, creativity, and culture are the vehicles for that empowerment, the teens involved spend a lot of their time with activists, civic leaders, and social psychologists. It''s about empowerment and community leadership through art and history. Many are having a life-changing experience, but still, it''s fifteen people.

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Six New Games for Change: Check Out the Future of Gaming for Good

NTEN

They utilized an existing game engine that is popular among the PC modding community (Half Life 2). The empowerment of girls in third world countries is a topic many corporate sponsors are looking to endorse. The team at goldextra took a completely different approach to awareness building with their game, Frontiers.

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5 Self-Care Hacks that Nonprofit Professionals Can Use in a Crisis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Self-care is both an art and a science, one worth getting intimate with, especially if you are one who’s prone to pushing hard towards what you want out of life. If your mind is excessively busy you could listen to a relaxing piece of music or count your breathing. There are two ways to approach self-care: Preventative and Episodic.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

They were using music, dance, poetry, and storytelling, and they were succeeding. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. What I wanted to learn next, because I had lived my working life inside of large corporations, was about woman entrepreneurs.

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

Have Fun - Do Good

They come up with an entire CD of music and poetry and we perform them on the last day of camp, so it gives people a real opportunity, hands-on, to really get out there and share what they've learned. So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist. The youth are amazing manifesters. It's all about collaboration.

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