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Innovation and Impact: When Arts Organizations Take Risks. Concluding Evaluation of the Exploring Engagement Fund, 2012-2018
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James Irvine Foundation, 2019
The Exploring Engagement Fund was established with the belief that arts provide a distinct, powerful public benefit that helps create a vibrant, inclusive, and compassionate society. From 2012 to 2018, the Exploring Engagement Fund supported new approaches that these nonprofit arts organizations used to actively engage more diverse participants.…
Descriptors: Art, Nonprofit Organizations, Organizational Change, Diversity
Innovation and Impact: The Exploring Engagement Fund. Summary
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James Irvine Foundation, 2019
From 2012 to 2018, the Exploring Engagement Fund of The James Irvine Foundation provided risk capital for more than 100 engagement projects conducted by California arts nonprofits. These organizations had innovative ideas and a readiness to take bold steps to engage groups often underrepresented among mainstream arts participants--specifically…
Descriptors: Art, Nonprofit Organizations, Organizational Change, Diversity
Exploring a High School Community Relations and Parent Involvement Program
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Sink, Robert Corey – ProQuest LLC, 2010
There are few issues in education that get as much attention as the need for improvement of parental and community involvement in and support for local schools. School faculties want to know how to improve the way they work with families and community members to better meet the needs of their students and parents want to find how to best…
Descriptors: High Schools, Grade Point Average, Parent Participation, Community Involvement
Community Investigations: Looking at Uncertainty.
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Kolbe, Tom – Primary Voices K-6, 1999
Describes a three-year collaborative project, Investigating Our Community, involving teachers and fourth, fifth, and sixth graders. Focuses on moving from mandated curriculum that defines inquiry with known outcomes to inquiry that explores the unknown knowledge and stories of their school's neighborhood. Finds that a community investigation…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Relations, Curriculum Development, Grade 4
Community Involvement and Education in the 1991-2000 Australian Reconciliation Process
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Gunstone, Andrew – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2007
In 1991, the Australian Parliament implemented a formal 10-year process of reconciliation. The aim of the process was to reconcile Indigenous and non-Indigenous people by the end of 2000. The Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation (CAR) was established to promote the process. The process had three broad goals: improving education, addressing…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Community Involvement, Community Coordination, Community Planning
A Dialogue Between Steilacoom and McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary--Neighbors for 100 Years: Final Evaluation Report.
Steilacoom Prisoners' Support House, WA. – 1975
The report evaluates a project to stimulate dialog between staff and inmates of a Federal penitentiary and members of a nearby community. The purpose was to bring prison and community people together to begin discussion of crime, punishment, rehabilitation, and recidivism in an atmosphere of informed, reflective thought. Nearly 500 people…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Community Relations