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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

Mission: Porter’s Call is a place where artists can find counsel, support, and encouragement, specifically attuned to their unique profession. Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens. Their goal is to cut teen suicide rates in half by 2028. Conversate. Impacting: Mental health.

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The Future of Mobiles for Nonprofits

NTEN

For the new generation, the cell phone is conversation. For one generation, it's a conversation like any other conversation; it may even be the dominant form of conversation for today's students. The phone was the conversation! The Teen Party. I could hear her friend laugh on the other side of the road.

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Providence Public Library: “A Most Democratic Insitution”

DipJar

A recent conversation with Erica Busillo Adams of Providence Public Library is a perfect case in point! Providence Public Library’s annual Creative Fellowship Program invites a local artist to create a work of art based on an item or items in the collection and is focused on a different medium and theme each year.

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Sustaining Innovation Part 3: Interview With Sarah Schultz of the Walker Art Center

Museum 2.0

Guard staff who are willing to let an artist step between two panes of glass to perform. The Walker is also a place where everyone is committed to supporting artists and new work, so every time we bring in an artist, staff are enthusiastic about the idea of coming together to create something. It's inherent in what we do.

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This company is making digital humans to serve the metaverse

The Verge

Designed to have a short conversation with visitors about herself, she runs on a proprietary “digital brain” and studies my expressions via webcam. I’m at home, staring at the future face of the metaverse and trying valiantly not to think about memes from a TV show known for its exploration of ethics and humanity. Soul Machines’ Humans OS 2.0

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Building Community Bridges: A "So What" Behind Social Participation

Museum 2.0

A group in their late teens/early 20s were wandering through the museumwide exhibition on love. At the adjacent table, my colleague Stacey Garcia was meeting with a local artist, Kyle Lane-McKinley, to talk about an upcoming project. When I walked by the first time, the teens were collaging and Kyle and Stacey were talking.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

re not creating a billboard, but rather starting a conversation -- you have to be willing to respond." According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent.