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COVID-related National Service cannot just be gap year for privileged youth

ASU Lodestar Center

It has the potential not only to help build or rebuild much-needed community support systems ravaged by this pandemic, but also — if designed intentionally — to be an integral part of the nation’s intergenerational poverty-interruption arsenal. They will support schools in closing the educational gaps that have widened by schools shuttering.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Two exceptional examples of community committees stand out: one long standing, The Community Advisory Committees of The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience and one emerging, the Creative Community Council of the Children’s Creativity Museum.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center. They are artists whose experience deserves a home in our institution alongside painters, photographers, and sculptors. culturally curious but maybe not inclined to walk into a museum. Showing that their voice matters.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

Founded in 1990, the Women of Color Resource Center promotes the political, economic, social and cultural well-being of women and girls of color. Our peace and solidarity program is really unique because we look at the work and the experiences of women veterans, which is a group that is rarely looked at.

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Four Ways to Transform Organizational Culture to Advance Access, Equity, and Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Before the global pandemic, intergenerational poverty and entrenched patterns of inequality dampened the future livelihoods of millions of children and their families across the globe. Established in 2015, CRUS is an independent global grantmaking sister organization to UK-based Comic Relief, which was founded in 1985.

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Elevating Advocacy Voices for Children Through Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An important design component is the strategy for spreading knowledge and skills for participants by using small experiments with some measurement that help them improve and learn. Elevating Advocacy Voices for Children Through Social Media – Guest Post by Barbara Munoz. Life Elevated.” It turns out there is a. better way.

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[VIDEO] Young Professionals and Junior Boards: Beyond the Kid’s Table to Meaningful Engagement

Bloomerang

And only 31% want to serve as social media ambassadors, and yet that’s probably the thing we get asked to do the most, at least it certainly has been in my experience as a volunteer. They like to be challenged and appreciated. They don’t want to be just given any easy kid’s task. .”