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Tag Archive: community
Attention: Your Online Presence is Needed
Now, instead of the child’s soapbox, it’s the adult water cooler.
3 Things That Undermine Community and 1 Wildcard
When market or business leaders ignore a community, it’s not just simple ignorance (or arrogance).
The Art of Engagement – NPO Style
If you can’t wrap your head around the actual work an organization does – it’s too complicated.
How to Not Be An Annoying Chicago Transplant
Make scathing remarks about the Southside
The only people I’ve met that make crappy remarks about the “wasteland” of Chicago’s Southside are people who have NEVER, EVER lived there.
Yes, the Southside is not the overpriced “paradise” of the North, but there’s very little need to think (or say) that once you cross over 57th Street, you’ll [...]
Why Social Justice NPOs Need to Revamp Their Advocacy Strategies
It’s scary. And, it’s pathetic. Sometimes, NPOs act like doing business is a dirty word. The tendency to adopt an attitude of martydom towards their own campaigns sucks all the life out of advocacy work. If you are fund raising for women’s rights, peace or to end conflict – don’t act like that’s the only reasoning you need to provide potential (new) donors or advocates.
The Art of Therapy, Self Discovery and Gen Y (Part 2)
If you enjoyed reading my last post about art therapy, you can read the real article via the ChiTownDaily News here.
I really enjoyed writing this piece. Getting to know more about various types of therapy definitely brings to light various avenues (and, will hopefully change some opinions) about professional mental health techniques.
Gwenn Waldmann and the folks at ATC [...]
The Art of Therapy, Self Discovery and Gen Y
On the second floor of Steinmetz High School, 6 girls are participating in an art therapy technique called Model Magic.
Each girl is supposed to shape the clay into a feeling they have about themselves. In essence, they are to physically mold their emotions into a physical rendering. When finished, the other participants guess what the girl was [...]
