This summer, a gift landed in my podcast feed: a five-part series on evangelical church planting . This podcast series didn't come...

Last month, I went to an amazing training called the Skid Row School for Social Change . The mission of the Skid Row School is to train le...

It's 8am in the classroom; 5am in my body. I'm sitting at my assigned seat, next to a man who sells trailers in in Indiana, a woma...

My new audial obsession is the podcast How I Built This , in which Guy Raz interviews entrepreneurs who built notable companies. The podca...

At first, I thought it was a joke. A colleague at UC Santa Cruz asked me to participate in a social practice symposium called Against Pa...

Every once in a while I look at my growing toddler and think: time will never go backwards. She'll never be this age again. Sometimes,...

The quest for relevance begins with knowing your audience. Who are the people with whom you want to connect? What are their dreams, their im...

Imagine a concise, well-designed report on audiences for cultural activities in a large urban city. Imagine it peppered with snappy graphi...

Last week, the international press lit up with a story from Paris : the city is removing the "love locks" from the Pont des Arts...

Every few months, a major news outlet does an "expose" about data collection on museum visitors. These articles tend to portray mu...

Yes, I was that woman on the beach with a library book about urban planning. And loved it. One of my vacation goals was to think big pic...

A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in. They give high-energy, interactive tours of t...

It's that time of year. Scrambling at work, socializing afterwards... which, if you are a torn extro/introvert like me, can involve a l...

You know those people who drop morsels of brilliance like a little kid scattering bread to ducks? I was surrounded by them last week. I...

You open a children's book. You see a yellow dot. The text says "Press the yellow dot and turn the page." Suddenly there are...

How do you find fresh and inspiring resources in your field? This is a tricky question in the nonprofit arts world--and probably in ever...

You run a program. It changes kids' lives. It builds more responsible environmental stewards. It strengthens your community. How do ...

It's World Cup time. And for the first time in my adult life as an American, that seems significant. People at work with the games run...

In December of 2012, the rock musician Beck released his latest album, Song Reader . Song Reader didn't come as a CD, or an LP, or a...