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NextGen philanthropists and the transfer of intergenerational wealth

ASU Lodestar Center

They are called "next gen major donors," and according to a recent report issued by the Johnson Center at Grand Valley State University and 21/64 , they will "have tremendous influence on the direction of and support for efforts to improve local communities and solve global problems over the next several decades.".

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COVID-related National Service cannot just be gap year for privileged youth

ASU Lodestar Center

It has the potential not only to help build or rebuild much-needed community support systems ravaged by this pandemic, but also — if designed intentionally — to be an integral part of the nation’s intergenerational poverty-interruption arsenal. A massive expansion of service is required to meet today’s challenges.

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Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now we have a team of intergenerational wired fundraisers. KEN is after all was made for the Khmer people and it was made in such away to reach the Khmer community near or afar. We hire local people in Cambodia to run the programs. He quickly found me on LinkedIn, Facebook, and my blog. Not the Sharing Foundation's web site ).

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Since then, Stacey has become an indispensable member of our staff, leading our community programs and inspiring us to think in new ways about how we can build social capital in our community. I chose to focus my thesis on Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. They talked about community building. I don’t think there is a way to directly build community. I don’t think there is a way to directly build community. WHO (slides 3-23) "Community” is not an abstraction.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

It is a time where a lot of organizations are going through an intergenerational transfer of leadership, and a lot has been written about what does that mean? I grew up in Florida in a pretty narrow-minded, and very closed South Asian community. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

Museum 2.0

It does not include facility rentals, nor people who might see us at a community event but not directly engage. Why do we count participants in an art activity for families at a community center but not members of the Rotary Club to whom I give a presentation about the museum? What''s missing from this picture? as part of a meeting)?