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The Art of Relevance Sneak Peek: Part Ex-Con, Part Farmer, Part Queen

Museum 2.0

For the last time this summer, I'm sharing a chapter from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. FoodWhat's staff and teens have taught me a lot about what it really means to be relevant to people who are often overlooked or ignored. FoodWhat empowers teens to change their lives through farming and food justice.

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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. Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. But there was no such program focused on the arts.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

Traveling Postcards is a humanitarian organization that is gathering women’s voices worldwide, and creating a traveling collection of visual and written wisdom that so many women hold in their hearts. Connecting personal wisdom to effect positive change is our goal. Each card is a piece of art in my mind.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Anne Kotleba

ASU Lodestar Center

Also, the importance of telling your own story with your own voice. When they leave here, I want my students to continue to question, learn, teach, and continue to use their education to change the world. I have a background in community arts, using the arts to creatively think about the spaces and people around us.

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Donning the Sweatshirt of Service: Reflections from a Second-Year Ally

ASU Lodestar Center

We all look similar in our sweatshirts, and the mission and goals of our work — to do good service, to help others, to create change — unite us even more. Analisa Xavier implemented Native American Connections ' first ever teen after-school programs. We take pay cuts, put ourselves out there, and take risks — all to make a difference.

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Pepsi Refresh Project: An Insider's View - Guest Post by Bonin Bough

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

million to the winning ideas across six categories, including: Health, Arts & Culture, Food & Shelter, The Planet, Neighborhoods and Education. Our theory of social change is that new ideas are born from optimism, a curious mind and a creative spirit. Anyone can apply for a grant and the public decides who wins.

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Visitor Voices Part 3: Co-Creating and Control

Museum 2.0

This week, a look at the third section of Visitor Voices , the excellent book coedited by Kathy McLean and Wendy Pollock. There is the Art Gallery of Ontario's portrait exhibition In Your Face , for which the museum solicited and displayed thousands of visitor-created self-portraits. First, museum content. They weren't curating.

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