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June Cause Awareness: LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

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The purpose of Pride Month is to recognize the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history. QC Pride was founded in 2008, revived in 2017, and serves the Quad Cities area of Iowa and Illinois. Pride Month isn’t all celebrations and rainbows! Donate to support their cause here. QC Pride, Inc.

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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. I saw for myself that history was unfolding in front of me. We cover an issue from beginning to end. Wisconsin Rising trailer and Kickstarter Campaign from samayfield on Vimeo.

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A Revolution in Documentary Film

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year’s Academy Award winning film – Inside Job – is one of the most powerful descriptions of what went wrong leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. Note From Beth: Yesterday, I attended a convening called “ Beyond Dynamic Adaptability ” for arts organizations about cultural participation in the arts. Perhaps not.

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Innovative Youth Outreach

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Each video features a young, critically-acclaimed spoken-word artist – Shira Erlichman, Alvin Lau, and Deja Taylor – as well as renowned musician, DJ Spooky. “This generation of youth is the most diverse and engaged generation in our country's history. We even re-skinned their MySpace page to reflect the microsite creative!).

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

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Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." In my experience, staff members are more sensitive to this issue than visitors and members are.

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Favianna Rodriguez: Political Digital Artist and Printmaker

Have Fun - Do Good

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public.

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Answers to the Ten Questions I am Most Often Asked

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In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.