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COVID-related National Service cannot just be gap year for privileged youth

ASU Lodestar Center

America has a long and rich history of national service, often turning to it as a powerful lever in times of crisis, as it did after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the Great Recession of 2008. It has been reported that the virus is twice as deadly for Black and Latino people in New York City as compared to whites.

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

Museum 2.0

One that has found remarkable success is California’s Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. 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. The impact was dramatic.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. It is a group of people connected by something shared.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Writing my masters thesis for Gothenburg University’s International Museum Studies program while also working four days a week as the Director of Community Programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History this spring was certainly a challenge but also an incredible opportunity.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

"I think that people have long associated feminism with older white women and the idea of bringing that back to women of color, and bringing it back to young women of color and asking them what it means is an exciting time for me." The baby boomers are retiring and young people are kind of coming up into that movement.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

Museum 2.0

When you count attendance to your museum, do you include: people who eat in the cafe? people who rent the facility for private events? people who engage with your content online? Summertime concerts at the history museum? This doesn''t even get to the potential parsing of people''s intentions. volunteers?

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[VIDEO] How to Tap Into Gen Y & Z Donors

Bloomerang

And so it’s important to note that with these demographic cohorts, oftentimes people try and think that as people age, they’re going to age out of a cohort. The other thing about millennials that is important to note that people tend to forget is that millennials are in the workforce. They do not. ” Yes.

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