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How to build a field

Lucy Bernholz

30 May 2008

I know a 14 year old in Contra Costa County who raises money to build soccer fields in South Africa. But I'm talking about building a field of practice - in this case Digital Media and Learning, an area of work we've been engaged in for several years now in support of the MacArthur Foundation. Here are some thoughts I posted recently on the program's blog.

Tags: philanthropy, dml, macarthur, fundafield

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