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Generational Giving at Arts & Cultural Organizations – A Donor Story

Connection Cafe

As a kid, I was saturated by symphony performances and choral music. Anyone reading this blog that lives in the New England area may know that the symphony I was raised around is the Boston Symphony Orchestra. As kids become teens, encourage them to volunteer with your organization. Fast forward to 2017.

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Museums and Relevance: What I Learned from Michael Jackson

Museum 2.0

By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. It is apropos that the EMPSFM workshop was focused on how the museum can deepen relationships with teen audiences. Do these teens need EMPSFM to survive? Probably not.

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Mall Science: Lessons in Consumer Appeal

Museum 2.0

A museum experience I’ll always remember: In 2002, I worked at the Boston Museum of Science with a program in which high school students from a nearby charter school spent half their school time at the museum. We tried on clothes, listened to new music, and threw pennies in the fountain. But I grew up in L.A. I’m a valley girl.

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[VIDEO] Emerging Trends in Nonprofit Social Media Marketing

Bloomerang

The last time we actually went to anything I think, it was the 2019 Boston Pride parade, always a favorite of ours and our family. If you have a tween or a teen, I’m sure you’re familiar with TikTok. But what works best, music, humor, entertainment, surprise, relatability. If you’ve never met me, welcome.