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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

Museum 2.0

Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary. This year was a year of building, challenging, and strengthening. We''re investing a lot in a public plaza project outside of the museum.

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Are You Serving Youth in Your Community? Think You Could Use a Free Tablet?

Tech Soup

Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? The July 2014 TechSoup ‘Youth Impact’ Story Challenge (the “Challenge”). Challenge Schedule. This Challenge is void in the U.S.

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Eight Other Ways to "Connect with Community"

Museum 2.0

The general public is not a community. This seems a little ungenerous to museums; while institutions may bestow more love upon wealthy, elderly donors than the general visiting public, museums have actively courted mass audiences for years. The homeless community? Nor is "everyone who doesn't currently visit here."

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Stellar year-end fundraising strategies for busy nonprofit leaders

Get Fully Funded

Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. Or to help you eliminate your waiting list so every homeless person can get medical care. Public speaking is one of the best ways to spread the word about your cause and get in front of prospective donors. Every Kitten Deserves a Chance. No one cares about your goal.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

She challenged many contemporary notions by taking on familiar biblical stories but retelling them through the female experience, and was met with contempt and even violence. Artemisia Gentileschi. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art. Charlotte Cooper. Future Sheroes.

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TechSoup Hosts Hackathon for Youth Health

Tech Soup

Access to the right information can help avoid these problems altogether or lifelong consequences such as infertility, homelessness, and so on. With 93 percent of teens online, 80 percent using social media, and 87 percent sleeping with their phones nearby – technology was a key option to helping find a solution.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

We collaborated with two local organizations--the Rebele Homeless Family Shelter and Dominican Oaks retirement community--to conduct oral histories and produce a small audio and photo-based exhibit on maintaining love in tough situations. interracial marriage, keeping a family together while homeless) and others are more immediate (i.e.