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Want to stay healthier and fulfilled later in life? Try volunteering

Fast Company Tech

Children and teens who volunteer tend to have better health and lower levels of anxiety and fewer behavioral problems than those who dont volunteer. An American pastime Our findings are backed by science, but they also have roots in American history. There are also health benefits for those who start volunteering much earlier in life.

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50 Nonprofits Every U.S. Politican Should Follow on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy :: @ TheNC. National Museum of American History :: @ AMHistoryMuseum. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People :: @ NAACP. National Coalition for the Homelessness :: @ NTL_Homeless. National Council of La Raza :: @ NCLR.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image.

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Teenagers, Space-Makers, and Scaling Up to Change the World

Museum 2.0

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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

Museum 2.0

Like a lot of organizations, my museum struggles with two conflicting goals: The museum should be for everyone in our community. At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we''re approaching this challenge through a different lens: social bridging. Museum of Art and History programs social bridging'

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How Different Types of Museums Approach Participation

Museum 2.0

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" I was surprised by her question.

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Does Your Institution Really Need to Be Hip? Audience Development Reconsidered

Museum 2.0

Last Friday night, my museum hosted a fabulous (in my biased opinion) event called Race Through Time. It was a local history urban scavenger hunt that sent teams of 2-5 people out into the city to track down as many historic checkpoints as they could over the course of an evening. Performances just for teens.