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Amy Potthast, Idealist.org: How I Have Fun and Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

With a group of mom-friends in St. Johns — my North Portland, Oregon, neighborhood — I've been working this year on a new, all-volunteer mentoring program for local teen parents. Johns Village Project is a moms-and-tots playgroup that brings together teen moms and adult moms, with all our kids.

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Teenagers and Social Participation

Museum 2.0

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. There is another, surprising group that is much less likely to participate in dialogue with strangers: teenagers. Many teens love to perform for each other. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres.

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The Shrinking Generational Digital Divide

NTEN

Imagine a typical Internet surfer and your first thought might be of a teen or young adult, not a grandparent or retiree. Both age groups also view the Internet as an important source of information. Eventually, the age gap will disappear as native users grow older and raise children who are native users.

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Museums and Relevance: What I Learned from Michael Jackson

Museum 2.0

And awesome examples like 826 Valencia or the Boston Children's Museum's GoKids program demonstrate that sometimes putting traditional social services like tutoring or food distribution in a cultural context can destigmatize them. Do these teens need EMPSFM to survive? Tags: visitors. Probably not.

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Chase Community Giving Contest: The Organizations on the Leaderboard Go Up and Down

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonetheless, you can still click through to each group's project page to see the real-time vote tally and I'm sure all 100 organizations are monitoring how others are doing to get out the vote. . It helps them motivate supporters to vote as well as helps organizations make real-time adjustments to their strategy.

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Benetech and the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Benetech Analyzes Human Rights Data for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission A Guest Beneblog post by Kristen Cibelli Our team at the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) has recently concluded a three-year project with Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help clarify Liberia's violent history.

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The Great Good Place Book Discussion Part 3: Pockets of Third Places

Museum 2.0

We now share our building with 6 other groups, each of them bringing science to the public in a different way. Our space for families with children under first grade, little kidspace , is the space in our building that seems to pretty consistently be a third place. Tags: Book Discussion: The Great Good Place. What do you think?

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