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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

." ~ Caroline Lovell, Founder, Traveling Postcards Traveling Postcards facilitates the creation of handmade art postcards that are hand delivered all over the world to bringing awareness and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence, or repression. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center. For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. That’s why we partner with fire sculptors, knitters, graffiti artists, and bonsai growers. Let’s start with empowerment.

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

Museum 2.0

The most successful programs fostered youth empowerment and community leadership in various content areas: agriculture, technology, healing. Committed teens lead the program and use it as a platform to host cultural events and creative projects for hundreds of their peers across the County. Not your voice.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

I recently had the opportunity to travel to Paris, France to attend the 5ème conférence de fundraising pour le secteur culturel (5th conference on fundraising for the cultural sector) put on by the Association Française des Fundraisers (French Association of Fundraisers). It was wonderful to again be immersed in French culture and language.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Maureen O''Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum I recently had the opportunity to travel to Paris, France to attend the 5ème conférence de fundraising pour le secteur culturel (5th conference on fundraising for the cultural sector) put on by the Association Française des Fundraisers (French Association of Fundraisers).

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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

Have Fun - Do Good

We wanted to encourage them to find their voice, and to become leaders in their own right in their own local community. The first couple days in Cambodia we learned about the culture, which was very important, but also very challenging for the participants. As a result, you have a culture of post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

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We'll be taking with arts activist Alli Chagi-Starr, the Cultural Arts Director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights ' Reclaim the Future Program. In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now.

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