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Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do with It?

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Lots of grantmakers are intrigued by participatory grantmaking. Participatory grantmaking invites to decision-making tables people who have historically been excluded. Why Would a Grantmaker Choose a Participatory Grantmaking Approach? So, what does participatory grantmaking look like in practice? Those at the top decide.

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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

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Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

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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. Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s.

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Participatory Internships in Santa Cruz this School Year

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At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, we take our interns seriously, give them real responsibility, creative challenges, and meaningful work opportunities. I'm particularly excited about two internships that relate to participatory exhibition design. First, there is the Participatory Exhibit Design Internship.

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Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Systems Mapping for Non-Profits - Part 1

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A Learning History of the CARE LAC - Institute for Strategic Clarity Guatemala Poverty Project. Mental Models: These visuals describe how people (individuals, groups) think the world works, such as theories of change, power structures, and cause-effect models in general. Key is a participatory development process.

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Thoughts on 3six5, a Successful Participatory Project

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Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. The reward for participants of having your contribution displayed is fairly and clearly structured.

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Guest Post by Geoff Livingston: Creating Movements

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Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. And yes nonprofits mimic their corporate brethren with siloed structures. I began our talk today with my personal nonprofit history. Ironically, if we have time, the last matter is the least difficult. And that is the crossroads. Movements versus campaigning.

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