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New Community Science Resources on Community Engagement & Relationship Building

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Community engagement is at the heart of our work in science centers and museums. From education to exhibit development, visitor services to visitor studies, community engagement is both a means and an end to everything we do. ASTC’s Community Science Initiative is dedicated to helping science centers and museums partner more effectively and equitably with […]

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New Community Science Resources for Collaborating with Youth

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A participant from the GET City Collaborative which offers informal engineering design experiences for youth in Lansing, Michigan. Science centers and museums often serve youth as their primary audience but how many have considered involving them in participatory projects that invite their shared leadership? Turns out…quite a few! For instance, the Sciencenter in New York

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The Power of Early Investment: Funding and Time Yield Deeper Community Connections

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Launched in 2023, ASTC’s Community Science Partnership Planning Seed Grant program supported new and emerging collaborations between ASTC member institutions and community-based organizations looking to deepen their relationship and collaborate to advance local priorities. Each grantee team received $8,000 – split equitably – to enable their participation in the five-month program which included strategic training

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Announcing the Community Science Civic Engagement & Policymaking Toolkit

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We are thrilled to announce the newest resource from our Community Science Initiative, the Civic Engagement & Policymaking Toolkit! Our team developed this toolkit with museum and science center professionals in mind who want to start, expand, or improve civic engagement work with their local communities. Read on for a sneak peak of what’s inside…

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New Community Science Resources on Planetary Health

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Are you interested in engaging your local community to combat climate change? We’ve heard from our members that many institutions are looking to start or deepen their involvement in co-creating solutions to climate change and other environmental issues. In response to this growing priority across the field, our most recent additions to the Community Science

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New Community Science Resources for Civic Engagement & Policymaking 

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As a part of ASTC’s Community Science Initiative, we have been maintaining a library of relevant resources for science center and museum professionals interested in community science. Community science is a way of working on issues at the intersection of science and society, which centers community priorities, strengths, and leadership to co-create solutions.   ASTC’s Community

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Announcing Our New Cultivating Community Science Stipend Teams

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ASTC’s Community Science Team is excited to launch our Cultivating Community Science Stipend Program. ASTC’s Community Science Initiative defines Community Science as a way of working on issues at the intersection of science and society, which centers community priorities, strengths, and leadership to co-create solutions. Through community science, community members collaborate, often with scientists and

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Community Science Trainings Spring 2024

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The ASTC Community Science Team is offering several new training opportunities this year to help our members engage in community science – whether they’re just getting started or continuing to improve longstanding efforts. If you haven’t heard about ASTC’s Community Science Initiative yet, let us introduce you! Community science is a way of working on

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New Plans for Community Science from Partnership Planning Seed Grant Teams

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Credit: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County ASTC’s Community Science Team is proud to share the work resulting from our Partnership Planning Seed Grant Program. Successful community science begins with establishing trust among collaborative partners and ensuring that all partners are working toward shared goals. To that end, our newest grant program was designed

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Announcing Our New Community Science Partnership Planning Seed Grant Teams

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ASTC’s Community Science Team is excited to launch our Partnership Planning Seed Grant Program. Successful community science begins with establishing trust among collaborative partners and ensuring that all partners are working toward shared goals. To that end, our newest grant program is designed to support new and emerging collaborations between ASTC member institutions and community-based

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Explore Our New Dialogue & Deliberation Toolkit

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Our society is rife with challenging problems for our communities to solve–from public health, to environmental justice and beyond. A neighborhood might identify the need to address flooding challenges impacting their community. Or a group may want to gather and brainstorm how to improve food access in their city. As neighbors come together to solve

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February Community Science Clinic

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ASTC’s Community Science Clinics are bi-monthly virtual events for community science practitioners at all levels of experience to talk with their peers and seek advice from colleagues working on community science efforts. Each clinic will focus on a different theme, be grounded by short “discussion sparks”, and use smaller breakouts to further discussion.

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2023 Community Science Funding Opportunities – Informational Webinar

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We are excited to announce that in 2023 ASTC’s Community Science Initiative will offer three opportunities that provide financial support as well as professional development, networking, and strategic support for community science projects. Designed to support and scale a diversity of projects at different stages of development, each award has unique goals, requirements, and timelines. Please join

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December Community Science Clinic

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ASTC’s Community Science Clinics are bi-monthly virtual events for community science practitioners at all levels of experience to talk with their peers and seek advice from colleagues working on community science efforts. In our December clinic, we will preview ASTC’s plans for capacity building and funding opportunities for community science in 2023, sharing multiple ways

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Getting Started in Community Science

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In this virtual training session, we will provide a foundation for planning collaborative community-based work, as well as questions to consider within your organization as you prepare to undertake community science. Through a combination of presentations from ASTC staff and breakout group discussions, we will provide an introduction to equitably and authentically doing community science

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