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4 Reasons to Embrace Gen-Mix Volunteerism

VQ Strategies

Simply put, co-generational teamwork will not only strengthen the outcomes of the program in the communities it serves but also foster greater intergenerational respect among volunteers. Program Stability.

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Which New Audiences? A Great Washington Post Article and its Implications about Age, Income, and Race

Museum 2.0

This list doesn't include many approaches that I see transforming museum audiences, like political activism, multilingual programming, intergenerational events, or cultural festivals. Even in the section about the MAH, Kate chose to only obliquely reference the work we've done to involve, feature, and hire more people of color.

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After Ten Days on the Road.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's a great example of the intergenerational collaboration that Juanita Brown spoke about at NCDD. At blogher, I met Ryanne Hodson , read her kick-ass book on the way out to blogher, and got a brief video shooting lesson from Scoble, so I'm inspired to experiment a bit more with the medium. It must help that Steve Garfield is her son.)

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Putnam, who has written extensively about social capital in American society in his book, Bowling Alone. For example, the MAH’s Poetry and Book Arts Extravaganza event partnered with Book Arts Santa Cruz and Poetry Santa Cruz to collaborate with 61 talented book artists and poets.

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[VIDEO] How to Tap Into Gen Y & Z Donors

Bloomerang

It offers an intergenerational experience. I mean, she literally wrote the book on it. What do you think? Dominique: Yeah. I am a big proponent and adding members from the millennial cohort and from the Gen Z cohort to your boards, and this is why. like I love my Gen X board members and I love my boomer board members. So be there.

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