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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Stacey Marie Garcia came to the MAH first as a graduate intern in the summer of 2011. To apply the results of my analysis to produce a community-driven program design specifically for implementation at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (the MAH). Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH.

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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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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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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. 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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[VIDEO] How to Tap Into Gen Y & Z Donors

Bloomerang

So with millennials, you’re going to see that millennials tend to support organizations that are focused on issues of human international development, child development, and victims of crime and abuse. It offers an intergenerational experience. They’re not there.” ” Well, they are there. What do you think?

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