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

Museum 2.0

Executive Director Nina Simon, who was hired in 2011, says that in the years following the global financial crisis, the facility was struggling. “At This list doesn't include many approaches that I see transforming museum audiences, like political activism, multilingual programming, intergenerational events, or cultural festivals.

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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. From my view, this is what the web should help us do: become a global learning community.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

As we developed new 3rd Friday community festivals , we were careful to design them as intergenerational experiences. When I first came to the museum, it was not perceived as a family-friendly place. More and more families showed up. Now, families are dominant at 3rd Friday, and some adults feel like "it's a kid thing." And so on.

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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.