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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. Not only did the piece showcase the uniqueness of this particular student, but also the opportunity to cultivate creativity through technical. awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. Forage Oakland project.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

The Waffle Shop is a cafe and live streaming TV channel that serves a diverse audience of late night club-goers and locals in an urban neighborhood. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. Want some waffles with your art?

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How to Source Great Year-end Stories

Get Fully Funded

Common news values are things like: Surprise : Ex: Woman finds wedding dress at a clothing bank; Novelty : Ex: Nonprofit staffer invents device that collects trash in streams; Triumph: Ex: Man overcomes addiction, goes on to manage treatment centers; Human interest : Ex: Teen learns adopted dog was used in dogfighting, so she uses her coding skills (..)

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

Museum 2.0

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. What started with 15 students in 1997 has grown to support 200 students per year. The program is rigorous, engaging students in serious scientific projects as well as personal and professional development workshops. YES students defy expectations.

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What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

Museum 2.0

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. What started with 15 students in 1997 has grown to support 200 students per year. The program is rigorous, engaging students in serious scientific projects as well as personal and professional development workshops. YES students defy expectations.

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[VIDEO] Get More Grants with Donor Cultivation

Bloomerang

They should not be your sole source of revenue, but they really do help complete your revenue stream. Yes, we’re interested in workforce development, but we’re not interested in offering students scholarships,” for example. For the most part, 10% to 30% approximately is what grants should be in your revenue stream.

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