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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. A massive expansion of service is required to meet today’s challenges.

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My First Intergenerational Social Media: Learning from Gen Z's and Value of Different Points of View

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've worked with other groups - small business, higher education, librarians, educators, and others, but never all mixed up. Nonetheless, there is a nonprofit perspective and my instructional materials and experience speak to that audience.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

To apply the results of my analysis to produce a community-driven program design specifically for implementation at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (the MAH). Museum programs can be designed to further bond similar groups together such as families and friends in family workshops such as the Dallas Museum of Art’s First Tuesdays.

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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. I interviewed ten online educators in five countries about how they planned and organized collaborative learning activities.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

If we don't focus on designing for bridging, it won't happen. As we developed new 3rd Friday community festivals , we were careful to design them as intergenerational experiences. Decades of research have shown that one of the primary reasons people go to museums is to bond with friends and family. Bridging is another story.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

Our work focuses on advocacy, policy, education and political thought that helps to shape the dialogue and public conversation about the interests of these folks. We also put together a popular education curriculum called Peace Games that focuses on the intersections of gender and militarism. BB: You are relatively new ED.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

Museum 2.0

It might involve producing ad campaigns linking science to community issues, or advocating for job training programs in technology, or designing curriculum for community colleges. We also focused this year on working with the countywide adult education agency to start an intergenerational science program at three senior centers throughout St.