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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

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. Mission: The Tacoma Recovery Center and Café is a community of women and men impacted by substance disorders, addiction, homelessness, PTSD, and other mental health challenges. Conversate.

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Donning the Sweatshirt of Service: Reflections from a Second-Year Ally

ASU Lodestar Center

It demands that we remember, as individuals, that what we do on a daily basis, on the regular — planning that Halloween carnival or participating in a homeless count across the city — matters. This year alone, Joseph Perez created an entire collaborative program that uses hip hop to teach students about life.

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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. When I walked by the first time, the teens were collaging and Kyle and Stacey were talking. I don't know what formed the bridge between the artists and the teens in this circumstance. Kyle had brought his baby with him.

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Using Social Bridging to Be "For Everyone" in a New Way

Museum 2.0

One of our core programming goals is to build social capital by forging unexpected connections between diverse collaborators and audience members. Single-speaker lectures languish while lightning talks featuring teen photographers, phD anthropologists, and professional dancers are packed.

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7 LGBT Tech Projects You Need to Know

Tech Soup

The organization is currently fundraising to build an online hackathon and social app collaboration center. One of the projects this organization is working on is called Connect 4 Life , a mobile phone program for LGBT homeless youth. LGBT MD was showcased at the most recent Caravan Studios Social Good Apps Breakfast.

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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. Some are conceptual (i.e. making a special gift). We spent a long time prototyping this one.

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Learn to Love Your Local Data

Museum 2.0

Inability to collaborate and share. Want to know how many kids ate fruits and vegetables, or how many teens graduated high school, or how many people are homeless? Why the heck would we be foolish enough to do it all ourselves? The "we have to do it ourselves" mantra is one of the most dangerous in the nonprofit world.

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