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Symantec Donation Safeguards Computer Labs for Students

Tech Soup

is a nonprofit educational and vocational training organization that has been working with local at-risk populations since 2009. Smooth Transition began working to reach at-risk teens early — before they dropped out of high school or left the foster care system. It also costs students the ability to complete their work.

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Tutor students so they can reach their potential in school? Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? Or are you looking to open a shelter for teens who have left or been kicked out of their homes, a need totally different than the family shelters in your community.

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Donning the Sweatshirt of Service: Reflections from a Second-Year Ally

ASU Lodestar Center

Remind me again how this is linked back to reducing poverty in this country, or creating sustainable local food systems, or increasing graduation rates, or fighting institutional oppression? It demands a perspective that is self-reflective, microscopic, local, and grand. Can we break that down one more time? Because I'm lost.".

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

Museum 2.0

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Instead, she went out into local neighborhoods with low-income families and lousy schools and asked parents how they felt about their kids'' science education. What started with 15 students in 1997 has grown to support 200 students per year.

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Eight Other Ways to "Connect with Community"

Museum 2.0

We're always happy for more bodies in the door, but if supporting teens means alienating seniors, there's a problem. The student community? The homeless community? The Brooklyn Museum allows skateboarders to use their public outdoor space, much to the chagrin of some locals. Pick a specific community (or two).

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What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

Museum 2.0

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Instead, she went out into local neighborhoods with low-income families and lousy schools and asked parents how they felt about their kids' science education. What started with 15 students in 1997 has grown to support 200 students per year.

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Building Community Bridges: A "So What" Behind Social Participation

Museum 2.0

A group in their late teens/early 20s were wandering through the museumwide exhibition on love. At the adjacent table, my colleague Stacey Garcia was meeting with a local artist, Kyle Lane-McKinley, to talk about an upcoming project. When I walked by the first time, the teens were collaging and Kyle and Stacey were talking.