Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 1, 2021

The Importance of Volunteers. “The value that volunteers provide our organization is tremendous. We could not achieve our goals and provide the support we do to the community without our volunteer’s commitment to the cause,” said Mary Bachman, Director of Volunteer Resources, Catholic Charities of St.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2013

I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums. The vast majority of American museums are institutions of white privilege. The popular reference point for what a museum is--a temple for contemplation--is based on a Euro-centric set of myths and implies a white set of behaviors.

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JULY 26, 2010

From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. The library is run in the lobby of a theater company by a group of volunteers led by Nell Taylor.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 Last week, I had the honor and pleasure of giving a talk at an institution I''ve long admired: the Taylor Community Science Resource Center at the St. Louis Science Center. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. blog posts from the past.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

When you count attendance to your museum, do you include: people who eat in the cafe? volunteers? This summer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Last week, I had the honor and pleasure of giving a talk at an institution I've long admired: the Taylor Community Science Resource Center at the St. Louis Science Center. Diane is both visionary and no-nonsense about deconstructing the barriers that many low-income and non-white teenagers and families face when entering a museum.

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