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Nonprofits and App Developers Combine Forces for Community Change

Tech Soup

She wanted to create something that teens and adults could use and that was also free. Caravan Studios' SafeNight app uses a similar model, in which individual donors can fund hotel rooms when domestic violence shelters are full. The platform can be used for preparedness, response, and recovery. Crowdfunding Help.

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

Museum 2.0

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. Often, organizations adopt a service model that is strictly needs-based. While needs are important, this service model can be demeaning and disempowering. It's pretty simple.

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Games for Change: An Interview with Darren Garrett of Littleloud

NTEN

We'd previously worked on games of this scale, had used video in previous projects and had produced our own stories in animated and game form, but this was the first project that brought all these things together on such a grand scale. One of their key objectives is address issues that affect teens and give them some tools to negotiate them.

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New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

Museum 2.0

as physical analogs to virtual community platforms. Librarian Aaron Schmidt tells the great story of a game night of Dance, Dance, Revolution at his library in which a teen asked him: “Hey Aaron, can I go upstairs to grab a magazine and book to read?”

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Participatory Design Vs. Design for Participation: Exploring the Difference

Museum 2.0

Museum staff create an exhibit by a traditional internal design process, but the exhibit, once open, invites visitors to contribute their own stories and participation. I once worked on a project where the main goal behind our community-based participatory model was to make our exhibit process faster and cheaper. But it's never done.

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Creating Jewish Connection with Harold Grinspoon Foundation + Salesforce

Cloud 4 Good

As HGF’s investment into Jewish life has grown, so too has the need for a technology platform powerful and flexible enough to scale alongside the organization. Establishing a scalable data model to support rapid growth helped create a holistic understanding of HGF’s impact on communities.

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Fundraising 101: Understand the Basics of Fundraising so You Can Fund Your Dream

Get Fully Funded

When you embrace this donor-based model of thinking about the needs and desires of your donors, fundraising gets easier. For a self-esteem program for teen girls : Showing every teen girl how awesome she is. For a self-esteem program for teen girls: Your gift of $18.25 a teen girl with a huge, confident smile.