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September Cause Awareness: National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

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A co-founder of the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center in 1958, Shneidman is considered a pioneer in suicide prevention. Edwin Shneidman (left) at his home in Los Angeles, California with Maurizio Pompili, who was the recipient of the 2008 Shneidman Award. Each year, World Suicide Prevention Day has a theme.

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Quick Hit: See you at AAM (and my Los Angeles must-do list)

Museum 2.0

For those folks trekking out to Los Angeles this week for AAM, I hope to run into you at the conference. Hosting a session on Monday at 2pm on Design for Participation with participatory design gurus Kathleen McLean and Dan Spock, along with research extraordinaire Kris Morrissey and participatory art rockstar Mark Allen.

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Don’t Bring Your Phone in the Shower

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. At the Durfee Foundation, we bring together nonprofit leaders from different fields to work on intractable problems in the Los Angeles region.

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Find an Awesome Nonprofit Tech Training Near You

Tech Soup

The weather's getting cooler (except for our friends in Los Angeles!), Every month, our global network of community organizers hosts Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. Los Angeles, California: Can We Measure Social Impact? Los Angeles, California: Tech4Good Event. Friday, October 14, 2016.

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The Time Has Come to Reinvent Fall 2020 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Events

Connection Cafe

AIDS/LifeCycle launches AIDS/LifeCycle @ Home and the My545 Challenge – AIDS/LifeCycle is a fully supported, seven day, 545-mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles, co-produced by and benefiting San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

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Q&A with sgLEADERS: H. Beecher Hicks, III, National Museum of African American Music

sgEngage

We will be hosting a regular series of events at the museum in person and online, starting with our Grand Opening events scheduled for June, looking for ways to partner with other institutions around the country, and to establish footholds for our programs in cities like Los Angeles, Atlanta, and New York. .

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What Happens at GEO Doesn’t Stay at GEO (and that’s a good thing)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Carrie Avery is president of the Durfee Foundation , a family foundation in Los Angeles, California. What would it look like if we mapped this web?