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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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Humanizing Moves Management Fundraising

Neon CRM

It would also be strange to solicit a $1,000,000 donation from a major donor prospect who had no history with your organization. Her daughter has required volunteer hours at her school; she may be a good prospect for our teen volunteer program.” A major donor will rarely walk in your door and offer a $1,000,000 bequest.

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Generational Giving at Arts & Cultural Organizations – A Donor Story

Connection Cafe

As kids become teens, encourage them to volunteer with your organization. Do you have a young curator’s program or zookeeper-in-training type of program for tweens and teens? Could your teen volunteers help run the kids programs? Youth leadership and volunteerism is a great way to keep families involved. Be creative.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

The iPad app provides free videos to K-12 students on various topics, including math, science, finance, and history. Teen Book Finder (iOS), developed by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), helps teens, parents, teachers, and librarians find the best books and media for teens. Apps Made by Youth.

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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

Museum 2.0

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. THINGS I''M MOST PROUD OF: Making space for distributed leadership. I know our organization will keep thriving because we keep expanding who can bring leadership to the table. institutional change Museum of Art and History'

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How to Create a Volunteer Handbook Your Volunteers Will Use

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Include your mission and vision statements, a brief history, and a summary of your programs and services. Are there other opportunities, including self-paced online programs, you could provide to educate volunteers about your organization’s issue and create pathways for your most motivated volunteers to grow into leadership roles?

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

Museum 2.0

Community First Program Design At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we've gravitated towards a "community first" program planning model. Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. That's a more complicated question. It's pretty simple.

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