Social Citizens Blog

I will be e-chatting on the Chronicle of Philanthropy website about the Social Citizens paper next Tuesday, May 27, from 12—1 p.m. EST.

I’d love to hear your thoughts about the paper, maybe even a challenge or two — and a prize for the most unusual (but still relevant!) question — I am the judge and jury on that one! I’ll post the link to the comments section when it goes up this weekend.

The release of Social Citizens ^BETA today is very exciting for what it isn’t – and what it is. Late last year, Kari Dunn and Ben Binswanger of The Case Foundation asked me to write a paper for the Foundation about the emergence of Millennials, 15-29 year olds, as activists. They wanted to know more about how these young people are using all of their widgets and gadgets for causes.

And that’s when we talked about what the paper isn’t.

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Students in a University of Central Florida were in for a surprise when their professor challenged them to see if they could survive completely “unplugged” for one week (actually it was five days).

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Welcome to SocialCitizens.org — a blog for the new paper (of the same name) found here. Those of you who have been watching the Case Foundation throughout the past year might know we’re not your typical foundation. And now we’re at it again, this time bringing a not-so-typical foundation white paper.

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