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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

Mission: Porter’s Call is a place where artists can find counsel, support, and encouragement, specifically attuned to their unique profession. Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens. Their goal is to cut teen suicide rates in half by 2028. Impacting: Mental health. Porter’s Call.

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity. The first of these reasons is practical.

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Authenticity and Demystifying the Artistic Process: Walker Art Center Blogs - Part 2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, for a museum that is presenting contemporary art -- anything that helps us demystify the artistic process and better understand the art is, in my opinion, a good thing. Has the Walker developed formal guidelines for your posts to the blogs? What are some of the challenges to blogging in a nonprofit arts organization?

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Research libraries have been facing daunting challenges in the digital world, but not everything is digital in research and the library really wants to connect people with the curators and staff that can help them. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Find the Future: The Game.

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

Museum 2.0

Instead of designing programming and then seeking out audiences for it, we identify communities and then develop programs that are relevant to their assets and needs. Develop collaborations and programs, keeping in mind what you have learned. It's rooted in the assets and needs of creative teens in our County.

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Temple Contemporary and the Puzzle of Sharing Powerful Processes

Museum 2.0

They were there for artist talks. Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders. It's a challenge in all process-driven work. They were there for project brainstorming.

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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

Museum 2.0

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. This year was a year of building, challenging, and strengthening. In the meantime, here are some.

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