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Tactics for Trust: Building Public Trust in Science and Beyond​

This playbook offers strategies for practitioners to enhance public trust in science. Drawing from diverse trustbuilders, it provides actionable insights to connect scientific endeavors with community needs, fostering transparency and accountability.

Engaging Your Community: A Toolkit for Museums​

This toolkit guides museums through a community engagement and self-assessment process to evaluate their relevance and strengthen relationships with their communities, thereby enhancing sustainability.

How to Host a Community Conversation: A Comprehensive Guide​

Three how-to guides cover organizing, facilitating, and participating in community conversations. Each guide underscores the importance of fostering collective responsibility, strengthening social bonds, and promoting collaborative problem-solving.

Cultivating a Culture of Active Hope: Strategies for Science Centers and Museums to Invite and Inspire Planetary Health Action 

This guide from the Seeding Action Initiative provides evidence-based recommendations for communications about planetary health that encourage a shift from a culture of silent fatalism to one of active hope.

Teen Science Café Network: Research Highlights

The Teen Science Café Network supports teen science cafés across the country. In its 4th year, members reflect on the benefits and institutional alignment of this by-teen for-teen educational model and the challenges of teen engagement.

Data Walks: An Innovative Way to Share Data with Communities 

Data Walks are a tool to deepen community engagement with research findings. By connecting data to personal experiences, participants offer new perspectives to ongoing research, helping to inform policies and programs that advance community priorities.