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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. Organizations are helping to facilitate these conversations and learnings globally. CyberMentors is an anti-bullying app, which focuses on building self-esteem, confidence and helping to make people feel safe. Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab. Before, app.

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4 bbcon Takeaways for Philanthropic Organizations to Power 2019 Planning

Connection Cafe

It has been almost three weeks since we concluded bbcon 2018 in Orlando, and we’re still wrapping our head around the terrific content seen and inspiring conversations overheard amongst over 2,000 attendees from across the social, private and public sectors. With over 275 sessions over three days, opportunities for learning were plentiful.

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

Museum 2.0

We start with the community and build to projects. Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. Emily started by honing in on local teens' assets: creativity, activist energy, desire to make a difference, desire to be heard, free time in the afternoon.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

Build community. Every time we encourage a volunteer to launch her own collections research, or empower teens to launch their own program series, or invite new partners into our projects, we invite them to participate. Empowerment? Cheer for each other. But I''ve learned that humans can be agents of scale too. Social bridging?

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Live Blog Post from MacArthur Foundation: Virtual World Event on Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They hope to reach out to residents and spark conversations about philanthropic work and to give advice and assistance to residents who want to advance charitable causes. Fanton: "Our first instinct was to create an island and a replica of our office building in Chicago and announce ourselves. We got advice not to do that.

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