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Supporting Artists With Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This recent holiday season, Benetech began supporting an innovative organization that helps people with disabilities develop their creative abilities and become working artists. Creativity Explored works with more than 120 artists with developmental disabilities, providing services that help these artists create, exhibit, and sell their art.

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Digital Literacy SKills Redux

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Seth Godin has a post called " The Growing Productivity Divide " where he lists some basic digital literacy skills that incorporate social media tools. Digital or Internet literacy skills are nothing new - my first introduction was over ten years when Doug Johnson developed the Mankato Scale. skills to artists and educators.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It was a quintessential Davos moment that drives home the accessibility of world and corporate leaders to each other and to social entrepreneurs, religious figures, artists, and the leaders of non-governmental organisations and trade unions.

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Yousician raises $28M to make music education more accessible

TechCrunch

“We want to make musicality to be as common as literacy,” Thür said. Thür said that with the new funding, Yousician will grow the team, improve brand marketing, localize the product and build more relationships with musical artists. 13 investors say lifelong learning is taking edtech mainstream.

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Elevating Latino Voices: How Nonprofits Can Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

The Modern Nonprofit

This could range from financial literacy workshops to mentoring programs. Artistic Appreciation: Display the art, music, and literature of Latino artists. It streamlines operational tasks, from setting up fundraising campaigns for financial literacy workshops to handling registrations for mentoring programs.

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What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The museum curator does research, is an expert in the artistic style, selects the best examples, puts them together in an exhibit, provides important context with the annotation on the labels, and so on. Not too long ago content curators used to be called journalists! If you think about what a museum curator does, it is very similar.

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Meet 15 companies that are turning ads and marketing into cultural moments

Fast Company Tech

Its also a clear evolution of Yetis ambitions with film as well as a signal that brands can push themselves artistically with the right amount of creative courage. The agency worked with Wyclef Jean for its client TIAA on a sponsored anthem on financial literacy for Black Americans.

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