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Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth Dunn wrote a great piece called " We're The Young Generation " reflecting on an article in the New York Times about the growing use of social networks by young people for social good. Now we have a team of intergenerational wired fundraisers. Nhuong Son , Wired Fundraiser for Cambodian Children!

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

ASU Lodestar Center

It has the potential not only to help build or rebuild much-needed community support systems ravaged by this pandemic, but also — if designed intentionally — to be an integral part of the nation’s intergenerational poverty-interruption arsenal.

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

Museum 2.0

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. Within three years, attendance tripled.

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Ocean and Beach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The combination of physical exercise and the hyponetic breaking of waves is wonderful for thinking and reflecting. I've also started a second "intergenerational" or rather in interdecade blog mentoring with Juanita. What is the balance between talking and action and reflecting? We spoke on the phone today.

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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. I designed the course to reflect lessons learned from my doctoral research. I started in the Cornell University Center for Theatre Arts , where I founded and directed two programs: Cornell Theatre Outreach and the Community-Based Arts Project.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

In some ways, we do a good job engaging people who reflect our whole County. If we want to reflect the identities of our community, we’ve got to focus on changing that. As we developed new 3rd Friday community festivals , we were careful to design them as intergenerational experiences. Our visitors are about 8% Latino.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

Museum 2.0

When I reflected on our museum, I realized we have some inconsistencies in how we calculate attendance. We also focused this year on working with the countywide adult education agency to start an intergenerational science program at three senior centers throughout St.