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This post offers my latest reflections on the midterms, success stories from my nonprofit colleagues and other news from the fields of philanthropy, social change and environmental protection.

Museums are undergoing reinvention to become participatory, family-friendly and more open to a diversity of people and perspectives. The Oakland Museum of California reopens its Gallery of [...]

Yesterday, a Yosemite National Park ranger pointed to the place where a conversation and an idea led to the preservation of Yosemite for all time.

In 1872 legendary naturalist John Muir returned from explorations in the High Sierra to Yosemite Valley, where he was greeted by two artists. They inquired about his recent trip and asked if he [...]

For me an ideal museum experience is one that gives me the feeling that I am walking through history and gaining a better sense for the natural environment, art and culture of a particular place [...]