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Breaking the Cycle & Starting the Mental Health Conversation

Saleforce Nonprofit

After a year of pandemic-fueled isolation — undoubtedly a primary factor in 42% of adults experiencing anxiety and depression, up 11% from previous years — educational institutions and businesses are making the mental wellbeing of their students and employees a priority. Listen to episode five of the Force Multiplier podcast.

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Dancing for Peace: Big Vision Podcast with Sara Potler

Have Fun - Do Good

In conjunction with Aulas en Paz (Peaceable Classrooms), a multi-component pedagogical project designed to promote social and civic competencies and conflict resolution among primary-school students, Dance 4 Peace was designed, implemented, and evaluted in public schools in the outskirts of Bogotá. Today, the program works in Washington, D.C.,

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New Frontiers in Fundraising

Top Nonprofits

Years later, in collaboration with a colleague, she launched her second initiative, an after-school program in New York City to help under-served high school students with career planning and workplace readiness. Wendy started a jellybean business during university.

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Hurricane Sandy Art Relief: An Interview with Elana Haviv

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Elana designed The Telling History Project: Understanding the Past to Create the Future , a curriculum to teach students about human rights. After 9/11, she spearheaded an art-based CMCE 9/11 Trauma Relief Project in the New York City schools. She also pioneered art-based healing programs in post-war Bosnia.

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A. Fine Interview:Social Media Author Allison Fine - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Fine is a senior fellow at Demos , a network of action and ideas based in New York City. Level Playing Field Institute is one, students they advocate for are creating podcasts and blogging. the Liberty Hill Foundation has been supporting efforts to train high school students in organizing.

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

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I told the conference co-founders, a husband and wife literary agent team, Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen , that I'd help to spread the word about the conference so I interviewed Elizabeth for the Big Vision Podcast. And if you can think of other new ideas, we'd love to hear from you. Elizabeth Pomada: Hi, I'm Elizabeth Pomada.

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That's Art Mobs, Not Art Snobs.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Makes me wish we lived in New York or that it could be done for MFA in Boston. ??? is a project designed by students in Dr. David Gilbert???sOrganizational sOrganizational Communication course at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City. Art Mobs ??? For Spring Semester, Gilbert???s

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