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Lever for Change: How ‘big bet philanthropy’ is transforming the sector 

Candid

For example, when the MacArthur Foundation awarded its first $100 million grant to Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee, it gave the organizations six months to refine their plans for how to use the funds. Today, the United States is in the midst of the largest intergenerational transfer of wealth in its history.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. We exist for people who live in Santa Cruz County.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

Museum 2.0

Summertime concerts at the history museum? Internal to an individual museum, relative attendance--changes over time or program--can yield useful information. But does attendance demonstrate mission fulfillment? Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts.