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...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Launching the First Wave of the OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network

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How do you build a movement for institutional change? That's the question we've been grappling with as we start the OF/BY/FOR AL...
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...
Wednesday, August 01, 2018

Who are We Protecting?

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I remember the exact moment when I snapped. I was at an informal talk by a visitor research professional from a large American art museum....
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

The Art of Gathering: A Fabulous Book to Help You Host Better Meetings and Events

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I remember the first staff meeting I ever ran. I had just started at the MAH as the new executive director. The museum was in huge financi...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Taking OFBYFOR ALL Out for its First Live Call to Action [VIDEO]

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Last week, I had the great honor of launching the OFBYFOR ALL global initiative as the opening keynote speaker at MuseumNext in London. Th...
Wednesday, June 06, 2018

Want to Work at the MAH? Two New Jobs Building Community & Social Change

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The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History keeps growing and experimenting in our quest to build a stronger, more connected community. We ...
Friday, May 18, 2018

OFBYFOR ALL: Let's Build Organizations that are OF, BY, & FOR our Communities

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Today, I'm thrilled to announce the launch of a new global initiative, OFBYFOR ALL . OFBYFOR ALL is a framework to help civic and cu...
Wednesday, May 09, 2018

How Will You Turn Those New Ideas into Action?

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You've just come home from a conference. You finished a book. You aced that course. What are you going to do with all the notes in you...
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 ...