Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In fact, one of my two biggest challenges as nonprofit CEO involved convincing boards that their service demanded accountability. To do this, I need to trace both the history of the organization as well as the transformational changes it underwent in order to illustrate the lessons I learned throughout this process.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

So I think, in many ways, for as often as everybody complains about technology and all the challenges, I think this past year could have gone very differently if we didn’t have these platforms.” — Volunteer manager embracing technology in Ohio. “None of us were ready for this. What a year it’s been. But for some, it opened doors.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change isn''t an art club or a history group. It''s about empowerment and community leadership through art and history.

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Everyaction

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Created in 1998, the United Nations Foundation links the United Nations' work with others around the world, helping the UN address a range of global issues, including climate change, global health, women’s empowerment, peace and security, poverty eradication, and more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. Let’s start with empowerment.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The challenge is to figure out the best way to share that playbook. We want to share the methods and tools that make it work. Not as a prescriptive recipe, but as a pattern. We see OF/BY/FOR ALL as an adaptable playbook for community change. Last year, we tested out different formats. We explored opening a training center. Consulting.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Over the past four years, I''ve been running a small regional art and history museum in Santa Cruz, CA. When you seriously value the diverse experience and knowledge of community members, you challenge the traditional assignment of knowledge authority. Empowerment? When we really live our mission, that''s where it takes us.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. Our topics are broad, including Creative Spaces, Youth Empowerment, and Economic Opportunity. Youth Advisory vs.) as opposed to an intercultural approach. I struggle with both these options.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. The most successful programs fostered youth empowerment and community leadership in various content areas: agriculture, technology, healing. That's a more complicated question.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

BB: What excites you the most about the work that the Center is doing, and its future, and then, what are some of the biggest challenges that you are facing? AD: I think what excites me the most are also probably some of our challenges, exciting challenges. That is the part that I feel very, very excited and challenged by.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and girls around the world, which threatens the gains made in the past decades in advancing women’s economic empowerment, health, rights, and safety.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Paul Orselli made a thoughtful and challenging comment, saying: many data visualization art pieces, albeit elegant, seem to be inherently "push" technologies. Name Voyager is a site that allows people to explore names through American history in an interesting way, whereas Nymbler provides an outcome-driven service.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 17, 2015

I found many parallels between the history and development of the design museum and of the MIM. We discussed the need to position ourselves differently depending on our audience, which ranges from board members to directors to funders and had some great conversations about the challenges and privileges of high-level fundraising roles.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 7, 2015

I found many parallels between the history and development of the design museum and of the MIM. We discussed the need to position ourselves differently depending on our audience, which ranges from board members to directors to funders and had some great conversations about the challenges and privileges of high-level fundraising roles.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

This post was written by my colleague Nora Grant, Community Programs Coordinator at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. There are many different models, including The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History , The New York Met , SF Mobile Museum , and even a Pop Up Prison Museum.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The last few days have been equal parts terrifying, challenging, and complicated. The American Immigration Council, established in 1987, works to strengthen America by honoring our immigrant history and shaping how America thinks about and acts towards immigrants and immigration. Donate | Volunteer | Twitter | Facebook.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

On March 5, 2009 I interviewed yoga teacher and co-Founder of Off the Mat, Into the World, Seane Corn , for the Big Vision Podcast shortly after she returned from a trip to Cambodia with participants from Off the Mat, Into the World's Seva Challenge. For example, we put together the 2008 Seva Challenge. It was an incredible success.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

I met Van Jones about 10 years ago and he was doing criminal justice work and building the new program here, which was Police Watch, and really addressing police brutality, and we met in a Challenging White Supremacy workshop lead by Sharon Martinez back in 1995. So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think what makes us unique is that we are really investing in women's leadership and women's creativity in developing local solutions to some of the world's most challenging problems. I think the biggest challenge for us is trying to make hard decisions. It works in over 160 countries around the world.

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