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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

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." ~ Caroline Lovell, Founder, Traveling Postcards Traveling Postcards facilitates the creation of handmade art postcards that are hand delivered all over the world to bringing awareness and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence, or repression. How does Traveling Postcards work?

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. Right now, we're working hard to empower Latino residents to see themselves in our museum. For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media.

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Our Museum: Extraordinary Resources on How Museums and Galleries Become Participatory Places

Museum 2.0

They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. While there was evidence of plenty of community engagement work across museums and galleries, most of it was funded project by project. and realistic.

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

Museum 2.0

The most successful programs fostered youth empowerment and community leadership in various content areas: agriculture, technology, healing. The program works because it is teen-centered, not museum-centered. There is a strong community of Oaxacan artists, dancers, and musicians in Live Oak. Not your voice.

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

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What we do here in Oakland, and throughout the Bay Area, is we work with inner city companies that not only have a scalable model, but also have a social responsibility aspect built into their business model. We are pretty selective on the companies that we work with, and because we offer it for free is we are pretty limited on our capacity.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

Rouer and Mr. Thibault encouraged the group to think creatively when it comes to working together to construct lasting relationships. Several attendees in the session voiced impassioned concern that businesses not overstep their bounds in terms of influencing the artistic product, a concern I have not heard here in the US.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

Rouer and Mr. Thibault encouraged the group to think creatively when it comes to working together to construct lasting relationships. Several attendees in the session voiced impassioned concern that businesses not overstep their bounds in terms of influencing the artistic product, a concern I have not heard here in the US.