Connection Cafe
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
Maybe think about activities you could support that would offer parents a place for their kids to go and learn, like a movie series, art classes, or a small-scale concert. As kids become teens, encourage them to volunteer with your organization. Could your teen volunteers help run the kids programs? I often say it is in my DNA.
Museum 2.0
JULY 6, 2016
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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Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 12, 2011
This week, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released a new paper by Holly Sidford called Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change. The majority of foundation funding for the arts goes to large, established organizations that present work that is based in the European canon for a primarily white, upper-income audience.
Museum 2.0
JANUARY 24, 2011
This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center). In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience. We created a teen arts council, invested in staff, and invested in programming.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 18, 2016
Instagram is about photo sharing and tell stories in photos. The platform attracts many brands because of the opportunities for brand story telling. This shot is from a program for teens that the met sponsors, #metteens. You will see photos of Met art works as well as art in other museums. Visibility.
Connection Cafe
OCTOBER 19, 2015
As a native Texan going to graduate school in Wisconsin, I signed up on a sunny September day not only to support the cause, but also because it seemed like something that would make for a good story one day. Are there works of art you want to restore? But here I am, still alive. Bonus: No one has to jump into a frozen lake.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 2, 2009
Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. You don’t hear about it much anymore, but in 2007 there were many stories of how MySpace was helping bridge the digital divide because low-income youth were logging in and teaching themselves HTML code. Think about that for a minute.
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