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Breaking the Cycle & Starting the Mental Health Conversation

Saleforce Nonprofit

I truly believe that if we could invest in strengthening parenting and helping parents who are affected by intergenerational transmission of trauma — if we can disrupt that cycle of transmission, then we can imagine a world where abuse and neglect is a thing of the past,” Perks told host Baratunde Thurston.

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

Museum 2.0

In September, the museum unveiled an adjoining plaza called Abbott Square, which includes an indoor public market and food hall with six restaurants and two bars (it’s managed by a partner/tenant, Abbott Square Market), along with an outdoor performance venue with live music, yoga and art events.

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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

GOH developed Hope Meadows, an intergenerational neighborhood that supports families adopting children out of foster care. I’ve also seen several Facebook events set up, which is really smart because it stays on each person’s home page until voting ends, so there’s a constant reminder.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

We attentively respond to requests and purposefully use different modes of feedback to inform program design from our comment board, social media outlets, conversations and observations both inside and outside the museum, creative feedback at events such as our Show and Tell Booth and online visitor surveys specific to our programs.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

As we developed new 3rd Friday community festivals , we were careful to design them as intergenerational experiences. The big event. When I first came to the museum, it was not perceived as a family-friendly place. More and more families showed up. Now, families are dominant at 3rd Friday, and some adults feel like "it's a kid thing."

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

Museum 2.0

people who rent the facility for private events? That means daytime visitors, event participants, school tours, and outreach program participants. It does not include facility rentals, nor people who might see us at a community event but not directly engage. people who engage with your content online? volunteers?

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[VIDEO] Young Professionals and Junior Boards: Beyond the Kid’s Table to Meaningful Engagement

Bloomerang

Sixty-six percent want to be involved in advocating in some way for your cause, 61% want to help with things like organizing educational events. And fresh event ideas. And now, it’s important to understand how they want to be involved. to kind of recruit our group.