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Putting Culture at the Core of Your Business

Fast Company Tech

These executives have built their companies around their respective cultures, from creating iced teas derived from ingredients native to the Caribbean, to designing moccasins in partnership with Indigenous artists, to putting a fresh spin on Japanese mochi.

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How great leaders use curiosity to drive innovation

Fast Company Tech

Curiosity begins with observation In the world of art and design, curiosity begins with observation. The design thinking process mirrors this ethos, emphasizing empathy, iteration, and a willingness to embrace failure. Adopt an artists lenstaking the time to truly see your team, customers, and market dynamics.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Arts & Culture

Bloomerang

Similar to the list I shared for nonprofits focusing on education , arts and culture tends to be a very popular issue area for American foundations. The arts and culture focus areas in this list include performing arts, artists, art education programs, museums, visual arts, and beyond. Funding Priority: Arts & Culture.

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Golden State Warriors release an album from their own record label featuring Bay Area artists

Fast Company Tech

The projectfeaturing more than a dozen Bay Area music artists, including E-40 , Too $hort, Saweetie , G-Eazy, Goapele, LaRussell, and Larry Junearrives just in time for the league’s All-Star Game weekend in San Francisco. P-Lo played a key role in bringing together the Bay Areas top artists, contributing to all nine tracks on the album.

Artist 105
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The common elements of good storytelling

The Next Web

Paul Jarvis is a Web designer and bestselling author, who’s obsessed with nature and hairless rats. My favourite activity while I lived in Tofino, BC was attending my artist friend, Roy Henry Vickers’ storytellings. Roy Henry is First-Nations, so his culture is one of passing information to the next generation through story.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

What made the game so unique is the social element – the game designers spent a lot of time writing about the participants and their visions for the future on postcards and distributing them throughout the night, giving them to random participants so they were prompted to seek out others. Learning Science by Design.

Culture 140
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How to Use Design Thinking to Improve Your Nonprofit’s Digital Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We used some Human Centered Design techniques from their “ Innovating for People ” design methods recipe book. It was the most stimulating web platform strategy session that I have ever experienced! What is Human Centered Design? Technique 5: Concept and Synthesis. What was your experience?

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