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What strategies can nonprofit leaders use to move program beneficiaries into program partners?

ASU Lodestar Center

Use participatory evaluation , as Rabinowitz suggests. Ask beneficiaries to volunteer with projects and events. She aspires to be a program director for an early childhood education program in the future; she has a great passion for the social-emotional development and mental health of children zero to five.

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Want to Co-Create an Exhibition on a Hot Issue? Introducing the Community Issue Exhibition Toolkit

Museum 2.0

This project wove together many different participatory threads. The lessons I learned from Lost Childhoods are at the heart of the OF/BY/FOR ALL project we're building now. Through Lost Childhoods , we saw youth step into their power. We saw casual visitors volunteer to become foster parents. What did we learn?

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Platform Power: Scaling Impact

Museum 2.0

They were off-site for the first time in years, holding a special study session sparked by an exhibition about foster youth, Lost Childhoods. It happened because two of our Lost Childhood partners urged it into being. This argument became one of the foundations of The Participatory Museum. They negotiated with the County.

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Ze Frank Takes Over (My) Museum

Museum 2.0

Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. To recreate childhood photographs. Most of the participatory projects I've been involved with are rooted in a community that is geographically-defined.

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How Do You Inspire Visitors to Take Action After They Leave?

Museum 2.0

This month, we opened a new exhibition at the MAH, Lost Childhoods: Voices of Santa Cruz County Foster Youth and Foster Youth Museum (brief video clip from opening night here ). We decided to hone in on the little things - from baking a birthday cake to donating clean socks to volunteering - in our TAKE ACTION center.

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Growth Hacking Your Mission With People Power

Connection Cafe

It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.” These volunteers have creative and powerful ideas for how they want to make a difference, but they aren’t waiting for permission or a playbook. This was accomplished by trusting volunteers to run events traditionally executed by staff.

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