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Generational Giving at Arts & Cultural Organizations – A Donor Story

Connection Cafe

As a kid, I was saturated by symphony performances and choral music. I’m looking for a place to donate in honor of my mother’s 90 th birthday, and a gift made to the local symphony orchestra in Myrtle Beach seemed like the right thing to do. As kids become teens, encourage them to volunteer with your organization.

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Temple Contemporary and the Puzzle of Sharing Powerful Processes

Museum 2.0

Temple Contemporary’s mission is to creatively re-imagine the social function of art through questions of local relevance and international significance. Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

The Waffle Shop is a cafe and live streaming TV channel that serves a diverse audience of late night club-goers and locals in an urban neighborhood. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. PieLab (Greensboro, AL). The doors of SLAM are never closed.

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Mall Science: Lessons in Consumer Appeal

Museum 2.0

A museum experience I’ll always remember: In 2002, I worked at the Boston Museum of Science with a program in which high school students from a nearby charter school spent half their school time at the museum. One day when we didn’t have the students, I was walking the floor with another staff member. But I grew up in L.A.

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Eight Other Ways to "Connect with Community"

Museum 2.0

We're always happy for more bodies in the door, but if supporting teens means alienating seniors, there's a problem. The student community? The Brooklyn Museum allows skateboarders to use their public outdoor space, much to the chagrin of some locals. Be free, nearly free, often free, or free for locals. Which community?

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Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

Museum 2.0

the Exploratorium is a place high school/junior high students go on field trips and make snarky videos at their teachers' behest (source: YouTube ). I watched many entertaining shorts featuring students explaining exhibits to the beat of popular and illegally uploaded music. What do you want?”

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Building Community Bridges: A "So What" Behind Social Participation

Museum 2.0

A group in their late teens/early 20s were wandering through the museumwide exhibition on love. At the adjacent table, my colleague Stacey Garcia was meeting with a local artist, Kyle Lane-McKinley, to talk about an upcoming project. When I walked by the first time, the teens were collaging and Kyle and Stacey were talking.