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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

Candid

2015 – Teens As Candid’s grants data approached its teenage years, many changes began to take place. funders, and public foundations (aka grantmaking public charities). Today, we refer to it as the “Foundation 1000”, and it is often used to look at historical grantmaking trends.

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How to Create a Volunteer Handbook Your Volunteers Will Use

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Can a child or teen volunteer with their parent’s permission? If the volunteer is working with donors or the public, let them know your organization’s protocol for providing positive interactions. This is an appropriate place to state that your organization does not discriminate based on race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation.

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5 Ways Libraries Support Disaster Relief and Recovery

Tech Soup

The Saskatoon Public Library opened its doors to these evacuees, and staff members stepped up their efforts to help the evacuees communicate with their family and friends. "This is what a public library is all about," said Carol Cooler, the director of libraries and CEO at the Saskatoon Public Library in a press statement.

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Sustaining Innovation Part 3: Interview With Sarah Schultz of the Walker Art Center

Museum 2.0

In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience. We created a teen arts council, invested in staff, and invested in programming. We discovered that teens felt uncomfortable in the galleries because they had to check their backpacks and they felt the guards were watching them.

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Are You Serving Youth in Your Community? Think You Could Use a Free Tablet?

Tech Soup

Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? As part of the prize notification, the winning individual or group will be asked to sign an affidavit of eligibility, a liability release and a publicity release (where legal).

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Guest Post from Museums and the Web: Bryan Kennedy

Museum 2.0

The Walker Art Center is turning its teen website over to the teens. You can drag a literal splitter bar across the page and view a community-created site blinged out by the teens or the business site for funders and professionals. Would you post your entire collections database as a downloadable file on the public website?

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Sending Collections on the Road: Geocaching and Museums

Museum 2.0

worked with the city of Bellevue, WA, to incorporate geocaching and user-generated content into their public sculpture exhibition to put a new spin on the concept of “public art.” explains: The city of Bellevue, Washington holds a public art sculpture exhibition every couple of years. Traveling public art!

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