The Mizzen Minute

As 2022 draws to a close, our team has been engaging in reflective practices of our own. As shared in our Pro Tip on End-of-Year Reflections, “Reflective practice is, in its simplest form, thinking about or reflecting on what you do. It is closely linked to the concept of learning from experience,...

Jennifer Brady, CEO of Development Without Limits, recently sat down with our CEO, Carlos Santini, for a conversation about nonprofit leadership. This entry was originally posted on Development Without Limits; we encourage you to visit their blog for more insightful and resourceful posts!

Heading to work in recent weeks, if you looked to the predawn sky, you might have caught the incandescent face of Earth’s moon. Or perhaps one night you gazed out toward the mountains, desert, city skyline, or sea and saw moonrise. From time immemorial, our moon has illuminated the heavens,...

Tackle three challenges with a single solution. That’s the approach reDiscover Center’s founders adopted when, in 2003, they recognized that limited access to arts education, costly art supplies and material waste could be best addressed in tandem. The outgrowth of a working group of 25...

Will you be at this year’s BOOST conference in Palm Springs on April 26 - 29? We have a fantastic lineup in store for you. You’ll find sessions on creating makerspaces; melding jazz, art and history curricula with STEM; sparking student storytelling and journalism; and infusing human-centered...

Hire points to Mizzen’s growth and focus on partnership development as key to its success.

Mizzen by Mott, a project launched by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation to provide high-quality educational content to the afterschool field, is delighted to announce that Angelina Garner has joined the...

Happy Women’s History Month. We’re honoring the occasion with a look at access and equity in science, technology, engineering and math. To put a spotlight on STEM, we caught up with Citlali Aguilera-Rico, an After-School All-Stars alum who’s now majoring in molecular biology at Middlebury College....

In November, we shared the news with you that Michigan’s lieutenant governor had curated three new playlists for Mizzen: on social and emotional learning, youth entrepreneurship and 21st century skills.

Although the observation of Black history in the U.S. harkens back to 1915, many young people today still don’t have a great deal of access to learning about how U.S. history has been shaped by the many experiences and contributions of Black Americans. Black history lessons may focus on singular...

Billboard has its hit parade. Nielsen has its ratings. Merriam-Webster has its words of the year. And, back by popular demand, Mizzen has its greatest hits.