Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

The Little Golden books from my childhood, non-fiction books that revolutionized my perspective of the world and novels that I rarely take the luxury of reading. The art of storytelling though, and documenting an event or a slice of time is, of course, not restricted to bound pages. A Guest Post by Sam Mayfield.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In 1974, the addition of graduate programs in early childhood and elementary education gave the school new status and its current name. Grambling also advances the study and preservation of African American history, art, and culture. .

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. To recreate childhood photographs. This winter, as part of a museumwide exhibition called Work in Progress , Ze and the virtual army of participants in A Show will take over a gallery of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

It’s part art and part science. There are plenty of ordinary happenings that can grab a headline, such as your nonprofit’s annual student art contest or upcoming 5K. A story about your organization’s history, programs, and future goals is unlikely to get picked up by a newspaper, TV station, or digital publication.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 18, 2017

This month, we opened a new exhibition at the MAH, Lost Childhoods: Voices of Santa Cruz County Foster Youth and Foster Youth Museum (brief video clip from opening night here ). it uses art, history, artifacts, and storytelling to illuminate a big human story and an urgent social issue. What's your take on this approach?

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. The lessons I learned from Lost Childhoods are at the heart of the OF/BY/FOR ALL project we're building now. Short story: we learned a lot. What did we learn?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. But tell an incredibly detailed story about your childhood, and you were likely to end up somewhere like a 3. He puts it on the wall. How do you measure the value of that experience?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

The common museum knowledge on this issue is that adults are timid, that we have lost some of the wonder, impulsiveness, and active creativity of childhood days. We've been trying to actively combat this at The Museum of Art & History (MAH) in Santa Cruz. But I don't think that theory holds up.

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

Things which seemed universal to me as a boy were in fact very culturally specific to my childhood in southern England and wouldn’t have had any resonance even twenty miles across the English channel in France where their Noël celebrations differ widely. However, the importance of his day has been lost in American history.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Dear friends, We're about a month from the deadline to apply for MuseumCamp 2017 at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). A month before MuseumCamp, the MAH is opening a new exhibition, Lost Childhoods , co-developed with foster youth, youth advocates, and artists in our community.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2020

As a Historic Interpreter for Telfair Museums, I would lead visitors through the Owens-Thomas House and Slave Quarters on a 45 minute guided tour of antebellum Savannah history discussing politics and urban slavery. We discussed our passion for history, art, and education. Who is serving the community’s needs?

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Pokémon might be renowned for its cooperative gameplay , delightful spinoffs , and making an intimidating genre approachable , but the franchise also has a long history of creative and interesting gadgets. My Pokémon Pikachu was a staple of my childhood. The box art for Hey You Pikachu. Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge.

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Towards Data Science

APRIL 17, 2023

Data teams made history as one of the first departments to spin up 8-figure technology stacks with little to no questions asked. Photo by Andrea Gradilone on Unsplash Have you ever bought a gift for someone you haven’t seen in years, for instance, an old childhood friend or distant cousin, based on one random fact you know about them (i.e.,

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 17, 2017

friends, I want to share two great opportunities to get involved at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in 2017. Each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History hosts MuseumCamp , a professional development experience that is part retreat, part unconference, part adult summer camp. Dear Museum 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

They were off-site for the first time in years, holding a special study session sparked by an exhibition about foster youth, Lost Childhoods. It happened because two of our Lost Childhood partners urged it into being. Our county board of supervisors had brought their official meeting to the museum. They negotiated with the County.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

They’ve had enough years to refine their art. As of Febuary 2011 however, they have added a feature that goes a step beyond: streetview history. Historians can narrate stories of a city’s development or you can tell your own story of fond childhood memories. Zooming in, it’s my dad’s childhood story. The fold matters.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

Some of Abir Barakats earliest childhood memories are of her fathers fascination with tatreez, a traditional Palestinian embroidery involving hand-stitching patterns and motifs on clothing, scarves, bedspreads, and pillows. They would even know the social status of a person depending on what she is wearing, Barakat says.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Picture bookswhich cater to those under the age of 10are often children’s first introduction to poetry and art. And this year, there are many newly-published picture books that celebrate aspects of Black life in nuanced ways, portraying history, culture, and joy. But few of us know about his childhood. ‘On Our Way!

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Always Be My Maybe Credit: Netflix Ali Wong and Randall Park are Sasha and Marcus, childhood best friends in San Francisco who fall out of touch as they grow older. Throughout their long, lonely lives, they've done what they can to influence history and nudge humanity in the right direction. — K.G.

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The Verge

JANUARY 26, 2022

She took the bus to the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles, an imposing Art Deco tower with cavernous tiled hallways. I tell her I think that her place in this history is just as important as theirs and that I would really love to get the story right, but that I can’t do that without her help. By then, she was 11.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 19, 2025

In our digitally mediated worlds, we have our partners' entire romantic histories at our fingertips. A lot of information on this subject is really poor," said psychotherapist Toby Ingham , who has written a book about " retroactive jealousy " (a term used to describe fixating on a partner's romantic history).

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

Yet it's particularly compelling to consider during Women's History Month, with its invitation to reflect on gender inequality in industries traditionally dominated by men. Other favorites from childhood and young adulthood included Sonic the Hedgehog and GoldenEye 007. A love of gaming begins Bond started gaming at age 6.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 23, 2025

The agency provides financial support to a wide array of cultural and educational institutions, including art, science and history museums, zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens and historic sites. What does the Institute of Museum and Library Services do? The volumes were digitized to make them more accessible to the public.

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