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Celebrate, Educate, and Fundraise: Planning Winning AAPI Heritage Month Events

The Modern Nonprofit

Embarking on Your AAPI Heritage Month Journey Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, celebrated every May in the United States, provides an important opportunity to honor the history, culture, and achievements of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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

Museum 2.0

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. There is a strong community of Oaxacan artists, dancers, and musicians in Live Oak. It gets easier to hear their voices in our heads when we make a decision. Not your voice.

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Making Museum Tours Participatory: A Model from the Wing Luke Asian Museum

Museum 2.0

It incorporates work by local artists, old and new construction, and is completely gorgeous. and then recounted some related fact or history. This brought other voices into the tour, but more importantly, it modeled a potential interaction that we could have. It was clear that Vi isn't just someone who talks about history.

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22 Email Ledes That Always Work!!

M+R

To make ends meet, artists would sometimes team up as a studio — helping each other come up with ideas, chipping in when someone was in danger of missing a deadline, teaching each other tips and tricks. And by quoting an outside validator, you add an extra voice of authority to support your own message.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

I already had some knowledge of the differences between philanthropic culture in Europe and the US but I walked away with a much more nuanced understanding. I found many parallels between the history and development of the design museum and of the MIM.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

I already had some knowledge of the differences between philanthropic culture in Europe and the US but I walked away with a much more nuanced understanding. I found many parallels between the history and development of the design museum and of the MIM.