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

Museum 2.0

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

As part of the Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore apps targeted toward youth as well as apps developed by youth. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project.

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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. Forage Oakland project. greater access for youth and foster empowerment through skills. The Future of Apps in the Hands of Today's Teens. Organizations are helping to facilitate these conversations and learnings globally. either in their own home.

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3 Ways Your Creative Can Move Your Social Movement Forward

Connection Cafe

Take the UNICEF Tap Project , for example. Make sure your creative includes all of the following: Images: Timely and relevant; telling the narrative of the individual instead of the crowd; featuring faces of real people who are seeking opportunity (the empowerment the gifts are directed toward).

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

Museum 2.0

Once we've identified assets and needs, we seek out collaborators and project ideas. We never start with the project idea and parachute in. We start with the community and build to projects. Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum.

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4 bbcon Takeaways for Philanthropic Organizations to Power 2019 Planning

Connection Cafe

Combined with check-ins with the grantee or partner throughout the project, these clear expectations of impact increase the chances of hitting your shared goals. . The program relies on multiple partners including the city of Boston, Boston University, local nonprofits, EVERFI , Boston’s Center for Teen Empowerment , and others.

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

NTEN

SOS_Slaves is part of the transmedia project “Sands of Silence: Fighting Sexual Slavery and Trafficking.” ” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. SOS_SLAVES.

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