Bruce Trachetenberg posted a story on the Nonprofit Quarterly’s blog from the Chicago Tribune about a recent ban in Chicago of street fundraising. Tags: Social Media Bruce Trachtenberg Echoing Green fundraising Nonprofit Quarterly Call me [.].

Here’s a good audio slide show from Chicago’s New Communities Web site, and others from the Kaiser Family Foundation. good example is the MacArthur Foundation’s blog on digital learning—one of their major research fields—or the Nature Conservancy’s Cool Green Science blog. flickr/jessamyn.

Tyler Green takes the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago to task. It's Friday. Wasn't it Monday just yesterday? If you've been super busy or super focused, you might have missed these good tidbits. So relax a little. Have a nice cup of tea. See what cool things have been going on. Why are the comments there?

The good news is that we already have a number of great sponsors in place, including iParty , Valvoline Instant Oil Change , Zipcar , Harvard Pilgrim Health Care , Clif Bar , Hershey’s , Energy Star , Uno’s Chicago Grill  and Citizen’s Bank. The colors of Halloween Town this year will be orange and GREEN !

The food must be local, organic or both, and must include at least three out of the following five colors: red, green, yellow, blue/purple and white. PSFK points us to a Chicago Times article about two guys who decided to get militant and do something about it. So let's unscrew that jar and see what falls out. Fried foods are out.