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Mobile Tech Connects Kids to Summer Meals

Tech Soup

Referrers include staff from nonprofits, community centers, public libraries, and other organizations that work with youth during the summer months. "We're always looking at mobile services that can help impoverished, low income, and homeless communities," she told TechSoup. "They actually talk to nonprofits!"

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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

Museum 2.0

Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary. We''re investing a lot in a public plaza project outside of the museum. I arrived in 2011 with the explicit directive to execute a turnaround.

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Learn to Love Your Local Data

Museum 2.0

Want to know how many kids ate fruits and vegetables, or how many teens graduated high school, or how many people are homeless? Our Community Assessment Project already measures indicators of civic engagement like voting, writing to an elected official, and speaking at a public hearing. Check the census. The data exists.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

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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Understanding Why People Give (hint: it’s not what you think!)

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For instance, they may give to the homeless shelter because they feel bad for people who don’t have homes or because it feels good to help someone in need or because their favorite uncle was homeless for a while or because of all those reasons! Making financial statements public and easy to find. Goal Proximity.

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

Museum 2.0

Tom compared public perception of racial intelligence to that of sexual orientation, commenting that over the last thirty years, the left has advocated to have racial intelligence categorized as nurture and sexual orientation categorized as nature. Why do homeless people smell bad?” And so my question is, why are we keeping them away?

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