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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

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The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. Global Fund For Children. The Denver Foundation. Lumina Foundation.

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Forum One Wins 7 W³ Awards!?

Forum One

The W³ Awards are sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA) , an assembly of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. Support Children’s Colorado Foundation.

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Forum One Wins 7 W³ Awards!

Forum One

The W³ Awards are sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA) , an assembly of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media. Support Children’s Colorado Foundation.

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Wandering Down the "Don't Touch" Line

Museum 2.0

I grew up professionally in the science and children's museum field, where touching is guaranteed and floor staff spend more time helping visitors learn and ensuring their personal safety than they do protecting the objects. Art, however, does not come to museums pre-hardened. The level of touching, especially of art, has increased.

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Public Service, Advocacy, and Institutional Transformation

Museum 2.0

And I think that requires us to be an advocacy organization--not for homelessness or oceans or children--but for the power of art to transform, the power of history to enlighten, and the power of a welcoming host to spark new ideas and change. Does this sound like director-ish bloviating to you, or is it useful?

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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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Send in the Science Clowns: A Frustrated Reaction to a Science Center Demonstration

Museum 2.0

Last week, I took in the new Galileo science show at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. There’s no art museum where Picasso is portrayed as a boozy goofball on the make. The show was geared solely towards children. But the show would have also confirmed that the science center was for children, not for me.