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

Museum 2.0

This list doesn't include many approaches that I see transforming museum audiences, like political activism, multilingual programming, intergenerational events, or cultural festivals. There are many examples across the US of organizations (including the MAH) that engage the full age and income diversity of their communities.

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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. The purpose of my thesis was two-fold: To research and analyze community and civic engagement practices, methods, theories and examples in other museum programs. I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you.

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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

From Cornell I went to the intergenerational, national nonprofit called Magic Me. whether the collaboration is across sectors, disciplines and organizations, or within a given organization, with participatory decision-making and teamwork. A premise for this work is that we need to be better at working collaboratively???whether

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. As we developed new 3rd Friday community festivals , we were careful to design them as intergenerational experiences. Our visitors are about 8% Latino. At the same time, “identity” doesn't always mean demographics.

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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.