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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. I want to return the favor with three things this project brings up for me.

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Greater Washington Give to the Max Day Training Event

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. DC Jazz Festival : With more than 100 performances in dozens of venues across the city, the DC Jazz Festival is the largest music festival in Washington, D.C.

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A Review of the Guardian ACTIVATE Summit in London

Tech Soup

we like to buy mobile phones to have fun, talk to friends, listen to music, tweet and connect on Facebook.” should enable power in members and facilitate a global impact of highly local activity.” “I freak out hearing people talk about using mobiles for ICT for. development in Africa. projects. On the core.

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

Museum 2.0

Emily started by honing in on local teens' assets: creativity, activist energy, desire to make a difference, desire to be heard, free time in the afternoon. She surveyed existing local programs. The most successful programs fostered youth empowerment and community leadership in various content areas: agriculture, technology, healing.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

I've now documented women's lives in 40 countries, over the past 10 or 12 years, and everywhere I went, I found women who were helping each other, local women. They were using music, dance, poetry, and storytelling, and they were succeeding. I am a photojournalist and have just published my fourth book, Women Who Light The Dark.