Presidential Authority Grant To convene teams of museum professionals and community partners from each of ten museums participating in Re-envisioning Museums and Their Communities (Re-envisioning), an initiative of the Nathan Cummings Foundation. The purpose of the convening will be to share strategies, challenges and successes; identify practices and protocols that can inform the larger field and to develop a plan for the broad dissemination of lessons learned. Communities throughout the nation are experiencing changing ethnic demographics, population shifts, influxes of new immigrant groups and altered social, political and fiscal realities. Museums are addressing these and other catalysts for change with creativity and resourcefulness. Re-envisioning is a multi-year initiative of the Nathan Cummings Foundation that supports and documents the redefinition of the roles that museums play in communities in the twenty-first century. The goals of this conference are; to create opportunities for peer learning among the groups that have participated in this initiative; to enable museum professionals and community partners to share and critique strategies for community engagement, identify challenges and highlight successes; to enable the foundation to identify practices and protocols that can inform the larger field; and to develop a plan for the broad dissemination of effective strategies and lessons learned.