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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Stacey Marie Garcia came to the MAH first as a graduate intern in the summer of 2011. Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. The value of participatory experiences is epitomized in FIGMENT , a free, creative, participatory, non-profit, community art event.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

We think about this redefinition of affinity not just in terms of our programming but our internal structures as well. As we developed new 3rd Friday community festivals , we were careful to design them as intergenerational experiences. Some of our best volunteers come from the County court referral system.

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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.