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Client Spotlight: Grambling State University

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Grambling State University was opened in 1901 by a group of Black farmers who wanted to organize and operate a school for Black people in their region of the state. In 1974, the addition of graduate programs in early childhood and elementary education gave the school new status and its current name. Background.

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Covid-19 and Museum

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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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Want to Co-Create an Exhibition on a Hot Issue? Introducing the Community Issue Exhibition Toolkit

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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 exhibition evolved after it opened. The lessons I learned from Lost Childhoods are at the heart of the OF/BY/FOR ALL project we're building now.

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Five Reasons to Come to MuseumCamp 2017

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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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Two Opportunities at the MAH: MuseumCamp and an Incredible Job

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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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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. 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.

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Platform Power: Scaling Impact

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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 felt like something opened up, right in that room, between the flag and the tissues and the microphones. It happened because two of our Lost Childhood partners urged it into being.