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Symantec Donation Safeguards Computer Labs for Students

Tech Soup

Smooth Transition began working to reach at-risk teens early — before they dropped out of high school or left the foster care system. Its mentorship helps prevent its clients from re-entering the foster and judicial system or repeating poverty and homelessness cycles. It also costs students the ability to complete their work.

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Eight Other Ways to "Connect with Community"

Museum 2.0

The problem--one which is not addressed in the article--is that museums have not been willing to cater to new target audiences to the exclusion of their traditional patrons. We're always happy for more bodies in the door, but if supporting teens means alienating seniors, there's a problem. The student community?

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

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We collaborated with two local organizations--the Rebele Homeless Family Shelter and Dominican Oaks retirement community--to conduct oral histories and produce a small audio and photo-based exhibit on maintaining love in tough situations. interracial marriage, keeping a family together while homeless) and others are more immediate (i.e.

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

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Use expert-only vocabulary – stop making entry points for general public, students, families Social science of war. Why do homeless people smell bad?” cancer, stroke, heart attacks) Animal testing Hate crimes Pedophilia Other countries, not ours, are to blame for this problem. and displayed in the museum.

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14 Top Nonprofit Websites to Inspire Your Organization

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Interlochen Center for the Arts (ICA) is a nonprofit educational institution dedicated to empowering students of all ages through high-quality arts and cultural programs. ICA remedies that problem by placing a real-time campaign progress bar on their Create Amazing website. Top Nonprofit Website: Interlochen Center for the Arts.