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Elisa Kosarin, CVA

Elisa Kosarin, CVA, helps museums enhance visitor engagement fully leveraging the support of volunteers. Her comprehensive experience ranges from strategic planning to best practices training for volunteer managers.

Recent Posts by Elisa Kosarin, CVA

Volunteers Want to Give: How to Respectfully Cultivate Donors from Your Corps

Category: Alliance Blog
If you ask museum leaders, their advancement teams, and volunteer program staff about cultivating volunteers as donors, you’re likely to get a mix of reactions, ranging from enthusiasm to …

How Volunteer Programs Are Embracing Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion

Category: Alliance Blog
One of the most powerful ways for the public to engage with museums is not as visitors. It’s as volunteers. Here’s why: the volunteer experience is direct and immediate. Volunteers spend …

How the National Air and Space Museum Took Volunteering Virtual

Category: Alliance Blog
A mother and her spaceship-loving children, ages five and seven, arrive at the Steven F. Udvar Hazy Center using their timed tickets. As they enter the museum, unsure where to turn first, a …

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