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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

We’re making our focus on community more overt, tangible, and measurable. These terms come from Robert Putnam, Harvard researcher and author of Bowling Alone. Putnam and other researchers have collected lots of data demonstrating that in the past 50 years in America, bonding has increased and bridging has decreased.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

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Our work focuses on advocacy, policy, education and political thought that helps to shape the dialogue and public conversation about the interests of these folks. We also put together a popular education curriculum called Peace Games that focuses on the intersections of gender and militarism. Things like the Homestead Act.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

Museum 2.0

The Relationship Between Attendance and Impact How can we measure impact? For some institutions, like the MCA Denver, attendance is seen as a very poor measure of impact. We also focused this year on working with the countywide adult education agency to start an intergenerational science program at three senior centers throughout St.

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Elevating Advocacy Voices for Children Through Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An important design component is the strategy for spreading knowledge and skills for participants by using small experiments with some measurement that help them improve and learn. Given that so many of our state’s residents are minor children, you’d think we would apply the ideal of “life elevated” to health care and education funding.

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