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How to Find Your Next Great Board Member

Connection Cafe

Consider if your current board, structure, and fundraising mechanisms can help you reach those goals. For example, if you have a history of terrific special events, but your organization’s newly crafted and inspirational vision calls for more transformational fundraising, you’ll likely need to shift focus. Either way, you win.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. History remembers Queen Anna Nzinga as one of the great female rulers of Africa.

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Ancient Greece 2.0: Arts Participation before the Industrial Age

Museum 2.0

In In and Out of the Dark [pdf] , Colby College professor Lynne Conner argues convincingly that the current refinement of the Western fine arts experience is an aberrant blip in a long history of participatory audience engagement. We are honoring the deep history of serious arts engagement by pursuing participatory approaches.

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