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Pre-Community Engagement: Setting the Stage for Authentic Community Engagement​

“Pre-Community Engagement” provides a framework for how to prepare effectively ahead of community engagement; it proposes a fundamental shift to approaching community engagement in a way that centers community priorities, scheduling, and needs.

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.

Equitable Informal STEM Learning: Tools for Practitioners

The Youth Equity and STEM project developed a rich bank of resources to support equitable practice in informal science learning.

Data Ethics in the Participatory Sciences Toolkit

The Data Ethics Toolkit will help project leaders clarify and integrate ethical thinking as it relates to data management and stewardship into participatory science projects.

A "Watershed" Model for Community Engagement in Museums

This journal article explores the intricacies inherent to museum-community partnerships. It offers the “watershed model” as an analogy to how decision-making flows outward from museums to impact community partners.