Showing posts with label inclusion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inclusion. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 05, 2019

A Long Interview as I say Goodbye to the MAH (and Thoughts on the Privilege of Leading Change)

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Some of our courageous team. We are strong together. I'm in my final week at the MAH. It's everything I hoped and feared: sweet,...
Tuesday, February 05, 2019

What's Stopping us from Building More Inclusive Nonprofits?

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Every day, I’m amazed by the range of efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the cultural sector. There are funding initi...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

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

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Two years ago, our team at the MAH embarked on our most challenging co-creation project ever. We partnered with foster youth, former foste...
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

What Church Planters Taught Me about Welcoming New People into Community Organizations

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This summer, a gift landed in my podcast feed: a five-part series on evangelical church planting . This podcast series didn't come...
Thursday, April 26, 2018

Which New Audiences? A Great Washington Post Article and its Implications about Age, Income, and Race

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This weekend was thrilling for me. The Washington Post covered the MAH's transformation as part of an article about museums engaging ...
Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Are Participant Demographics the Most Useful Single Measure of Community Impact?

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Let's say you want your organization to be rooted in your community. To be of value to your community. To reflect and represent your c...
Thursday, December 07, 2017

Guest Post by Jasper Visser: Storytelling for Social Cohesion at Story House Belvédère

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I first read about Story House Belvédère on Jasper Visser’s excellent blog, The Museum of the Future . This small, startup cultural projec...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Platform Power: Scaling Impact

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Last month, I sat in the back of a meeting room at the MAH and watched something extraordinary happen. Our county board of supervisors had...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Guest Post by Seema Rao: How Museums Can Resist Racism and Oppression

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This guest post was written by Seema Rao , a 2017 MuseumCamper and brilliant GLAM visitor advocate. Seema wrote it (original post here ) i...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

10 Ways to Build a Better Community Brainstorming Meeting

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You're planning a new exhibition. Considering a new strategic direction. Designing a new program. And you've decided that you want...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Advocacy Policy, Part Two - And Why Now is an Especially Good Time to Create One

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A few months ago, the MAH board and staff started discussing whether and how to create a formal policy for advocacy activities. I blogg...
Monday, December 28, 2015

Give Yourself Some SPACE in 2016

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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,...
Wednesday, November 04, 2015

Women of Color Leading Essential, Activist Work in Cultural Institutions

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A new poster from the National Park Service, based on Rich Black's 2009 image. Over the past few months, I've been doing resear...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Fighting for Inclusion

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These are the notes and slides for a keynote speech I'm giving this Saturday at MuseumNext in Indianapolis. If you'll be there...
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

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One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Wh...