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Teenagers, Space-Makers, and Scaling Up to Change the World

Museum 2.0

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 is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

Museum 2.0

One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? When you say you want to be relevant, that usually means "we want to matter to more people." Or different people. My answer: neither. The market decides what's relevant.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Maureen O'Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum. As the development director at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM), which celebrates the music of every country in the world, my team has a platform to fundraise internationally. Madison, earning a double major in music and French.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Maureen O''Brien Development Director Musical Instrument Museum I recently had the opportunity to travel to Paris, France to attend the 5ème conférence de fundraising pour le secteur culturel (5th conference on fundraising for the cultural sector) put on by the Association Française des Fundraisers (French Association of Fundraisers).

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

"[T]hose of us who take pictures, even for our own personal trips, and share those pictures with friends, because we have that skill, also have an obligation to help people understand each other more completely. They were using music, dance, poetry, and storytelling, and they were succeeding. In 2001, I began photographing.