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Empowering Young Children through Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Throughout history, philanthropy plays a very important role because it directly impacts our wellbeing. She came up to me and said she was very impressed by the history of American philanthropy and the AFP professionalism. I then said to her ‘Don’t you know that Egyptian has a longer history of philanthropy than the Americans?’

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Khan Academy and the Revolution in Online Free Choice Learning

Museum 2.0

Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. These instructors aren't teaching you the equivalent of a high school course in math or art history. This is an epic moment in the history of education, who wouldn’t want to be part of it? the way the best museums do.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

In this unique, online, interactive (free) event - first in a monthly series - you get to see, hear, and ask questions directly to our panel of experts. 2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. Join Us Online May 24 at 11 a.m.

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Designing Interactives for Adults: Put Down the Dayglow

Museum 2.0

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? We've been trying to actively combat this at The Museum of Art & History (MAH) in Santa Cruz. Have you made a decision with surprising consequences?

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » I am Michael Hoffman

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This Michael Hoffman lives in Chicagoland, and does not write fake history books or act in movies, unless you count this one. I have never written an article in The Japan Times, though I have written articles on politics, fundraising and web marketing. I am not an auctioneer, nor am I a professor of mathematics at the U.S.

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Favianna Rodriguez: Political Digital Artist and Printmaker

Have Fun - Do Good

I think that it's too bad that our stories are not in the common language of arts and entertainment because I think our stories can be very powerful - the stories of an immigrant family, of a single family, of a family who's organizing, or fighting evictions, a young woman who's questioning her sexuality. What is your messaging?

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