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

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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

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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. We're a place you can work off your traffic ticket.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work. It is a much more complex and nuanced history.

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

Bloomerang

All over the place. And that’s not to say that our Gen Xers and our boomers didn’t grow up in very difficult times, and don’t want to see the world become a better place. And then the other key fact that I want to share about millennials is that 84% of millennial donors have a history of supporting nonprofit causes.

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