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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. That’s a great place to start. Program Stability. Of course, designing an age-diverse volunteer program is not without its challenges.

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

Museum 2.0

She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests. I'm also always interested in how the national media portrays changes in the cultural sector. The impact was dramatic.

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America's Giving Challenge Official Results: We Came In First! Thank You Everyone!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The final, official results have arrived for America's Giving Challenge and I'm happy say that we came in first place for global causes ! I want to thank each and everyone of you who donated, asked their friends and network to donate, spread the word through blogging it or other ways, and helped us cross the finish line in first place!

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center. That something may be a place, an identity, an interest, a worldview. We focus on people who are culturally curious, actively creative… but may not see a traditional arts institution as a place for them.

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From Community Arts To Community of Online Learners: Janet Salmons, Ph.D

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These programs involved cultural, educational and training efforts that used interactive theater and storytelling. From Cornell I went to the intergenerational, national nonprofit called Magic Me. The Leading for Results course is not just about studying other leaders, but about learners thinking of themselves as leaders.

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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. It is a time where a lot of organizations are going through an intergenerational transfer of leadership, and a lot has been written about what does that mean?

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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.