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Connecting the dots: Fighting for equity through a data partnership 

Candid

In an environment fraught with fear mongering and skeptical potential allies, Candid persisted in enhancing Demographics via Candid. They amplified the voices and perspectives of women of color leaders on this platform and in their webinars. Our partnership, however, will create a way for anyone to connect the dots.

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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COVID-19 case study: Changing funding practices in Europe

Candid

A few ways funders have modelled this is by loosening deadlines, converting grant funds from restricted to unrestricted funding, and simplifying processes. . While some funders were already cultivating trust-based and flexible practices before the pandemic, more began to re-think their practices.

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. Over the past twenty years, the Brainerd Foundation has invested nearly $50 million in organizations working to protect the environment in the Northwest. How might we create a funding model that nourishes flexibility and innovation?

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Guest Post: Considering a Commons in Collection at the Elsewhere Collaborative

Museum 2.0

Our archeology did not aim to uncover the hidden voice of my grandmother, but instead to begin an ongoing practice of recreation. Whenever we show and tell, we pass things between us, and in this model of sharing values we may begin to understand how museums are trusted with public commons as much as they are with public meaning.

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What Does Audience-Centered Look Like? It Looks like Glasgow Museums.

Museum 2.0

However, I have enormous respect for the customer-centered model when it is executed in ways that truly invite visitors in on their own terms and deliver satisfying experiences. They offered immersive, powerful environments. That work showed in the human voices and stories throughout the museum.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum. Tags: children's museums design business models. It creates another forgettable museum.

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