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

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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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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Museum 2.0

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

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

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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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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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

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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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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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

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. Sheroes in the Arts. Thought Leaders. Revolutionaries. Game-Changers.

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Bloomerang

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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NTEN

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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2012

Educate about the reality of rampant childhood sexual abuse in America: @ Darkness2Light. Teach human history, art, and culture: @ Smithsonian. Empower entrepreneurs at the grassroots to start micro-enterprises: @ Kiva , @ DarfurStoves. Protect the world’s remaining indigenous people: @ Survival.

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