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Obtaining Government Funding for Education Programs

By Mae Sevedge & Reggie Lynch

In this series of posts, EdCom’s Trends Committee is taking a deeper look at emerging phenomena identified in the 2020 edition of TrendsWatch from the Center for the Future of Museums. In this post, they dive into government funding, with …

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