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How to Find Your Next Great Board Member

Connection Cafe

Consider if your current board, structure, and fundraising mechanisms can help you reach those goals. Not only will your activities change, but also those who carry them out will change, too. The last word comes to us from ancient Greece. Involve your current board members directly in the setting of those goals. Nosce te ipsum.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

She took an active role in the independence movement aimed at relinquishing Ottoman rule over Greec e, investing her own fortune into securing arms, ships, and otherwise equipping the soldiers under her command. Olivia Bouler's environmental activism started early. Rosalind Franklin. Laskarina Bouboulina. Charlotte Cooper.

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Ancient Greece 2.0: Arts Participation before the Industrial Age

Museum 2.0

This week, I read a fabulous essay that made me feel a new kinship with the past in the quest to advocate for active audience engagement. They had the freedom--and in some cases, the obligation--to make their own meaning and share their interpretations of art with each other in structured and informal ways.

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