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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

Headquarters in: Denver, CO. Mission: Porter’s Call is a place where artists can find counsel, support, and encouragement, specifically attuned to their unique profession. Impacting: Mental health. How To Support Colorado Mental Wellness Network. Learn more about Colorado Mental Wellness Network. Laughs for the Troops. Youth Homes.

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Wandering Down the "Don't Touch" Line

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I grew up professionally in the science and children's museum field, where touching is guaranteed and floor staff spend more time helping visitors learn and ensuring their personal safety than they do protecting the objects. Engagement with local artists. What if you WANT them to touch certain things? Keep your arms behind your back.

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Nonprofit Mergers - When Churches Merge

ASU Lodestar Center

EVB had well-established programs for children, families, and older adults. Both churches also had an emphasis on serving the downtown artist community. East Valley Bible (EVB) was a large, well-established 20-year-old church located in the East Valley which comprised a single campus with multiple services. Like this article?

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Museum programs can also bridge different groups that might not typically interact such as the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum’s Educational Residential Centre, which designed a program specifically to bridge children of two groups engaged in social conflict, Catholics and Protestants.

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Guest Post: Using Participation to Solve a Design Problem at the Carnegie Museum of Art

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I'm on the road this week, with speaking gigs in Oslo, Denver, Charlotte, and Roanoke (join the NAMP livestream on Sunday at 9:25am PT here ). How about break it down for younger children?" Smartphone images didn't read well given the limitations of screen size and the legibility of the artists' writings and drawings.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

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A Crowd-Curated Exhibition (Shelley Bernstein), the Tech Virtual Test Zone (me), along with a new participatory research project, Children of the Lodz Ghetto (David Klevan), to talk about our lessons and struggles working with the public to create "museum-quality" exhibitions and research projects. This was particularly true for Click!,

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100+ Fundraising Event Ideas to Try in 2021 and Beyond

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Find out what this type of fundraising event looks like in action with the Junior Achievement Metro Denver Virtual Trivia Bowl. Depending on your budget, you may be able to get a popular artist, but you can also reach out to local musicians. Art show – Are there any local artists in your area? Recreational Fundraising Ideas.

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