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Pokemon Go and Nonprofits

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Centre Foundation , also a Pokemon stop, is adding this to its messaging around several summer programs geared for high school students. . — Nonprofits First (@NonprofitsFirst) July 11, 2016. Here’s an account of how a LGBTQ activist is using the app – more to come? A Few Concerns. This primer helped.

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Live Blog Post from MacArthur Foundation: Virtual World Event on Philanthropy

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MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. " He said that MacArthur hopes to make investments to help nonprofits and civil society organizations address serious issues. Foundations don't do it directly but via nonprofits. The John D.

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Henry Jenkins discusses participatory media in Second Life

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I just received my copy of Henry Jenkin's Convergence Culture which has been on my list ever since I heard him speak at the launch of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Learning and Media Initiative. It has been hyped. I'm hoping to get a chance to finish during some much needed down time. More here on the event. I think that???s