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Which New Audiences? A Great Washington Post Article and its Implications about Age, Income, and Race

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One that has found remarkable success is California’s Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests. The impact was dramatic.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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From Community Arts To Community of Online Learners: Janet Salmons, Ph.D

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I met Janet Salmons many years ago while I working on various arts and technology projects in New York State for the New York Foundation for the Arts. I started in the Cornell University Center for Theatre Arts , where I founded and directed two programs: Cornell Theatre Outreach and the Community-Based Arts Project.

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Guest Post by Katherine Hutt: A Small Nonprofit's Strategy for Pepsi Refresh Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If they don't a dollar, at least the contest has helped inspire them to dip their toes in the social media waters. GOH developed Hope Meadows, an intergenerational neighborhood that supports families adopting children out of foster care. Generations of Hope is one of 189 organizations going for February’s two top prizes of $250,000.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

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These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. We exist for people who live in Santa Cruz County.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

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Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. Outdoor movies at the art museum? For us, annual attendance includes programmatic activities onsite and off. If someone has an epiphany about art outside the museum, do they count? Louis count it. Those count.

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[VIDEO] How to Tap Into Gen Y & Z Donors

Bloomerang

So wildlife conservation, they’re also interested in arts and culture, humanities and [inaudible 00:27:21]. The next thing with the with these two cohorts side is important when engaging with them is the fact that you want to look for opportunities to help them grow. And so those are my helpful tips. Oh, no, we lost Dom.

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