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

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In recent years, that model is being challenged. Lots of grantmakers are intrigued by participatory grantmaking. What matters most in this model are values–and one in particular: equity. Participatory grantmaking invites to decision-making tables people who have historically been excluded. Those at the top decide.

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Participatory Model Grant Fund

Connecting the dots: Fighting for equity through a data partnership

Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

Skeptical because Candid is a nonprofit that describes its work ethic and culture as similar to that of the tech sector, which could mean either mission-driven with an innovative mindset, or appropriating the rhetoric of social movements while engaging in extractive practices.

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Data Demographics Aggregator Participatory

Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

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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Model Activities Active Activism

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." Some argue that young people acquire these key skills by interacting with popular culture. vlogging, and podcasting). .

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Participatory Teen Vlog Mashup

Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. It is a useful technique for creating a more responsive, flexible organizational culture as well as coming up with more innovative ideas for programs and grants that are a good fit. How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy

New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

There’s a thriving debate about the role computers should play in children’s museums, with many professionals sounding the alarm about the negative impact of exchanging screen time for tactile environments. All of these have gone through a series of movements in the last 30 years reflecting cultural shifts and expectations.

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Classroom Children Museum Model

Guest Post: A New Role for Science Museums--Playground for Scientists

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play. And my museum, and this new model, as a space for them to do so. We generated nearly 10k data points and hundreds of text-based confessionals that he''s already successfully used to model cooperative behavior and is considering publishing on it.

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Museum Roles Game Participatory

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

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Elsewhere’s Living Museum, open daily, offers audiences (average 300/week) an exploratory environment to play within and a site where creative practice is made public and the artwork and museum are themselves in a constant state of flux. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Collaboration North Carolina Museum Artist

Participation through Gifting: Pass It On

Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. Why is gifting a model worth exploring? Ideas participatory museum.

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Gift Participatory Museum Model

The Living Library: Using Our Institutions as New Models for Civic Dialogue

Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment. Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. well, you know. Would you use the Living Library?

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Library Model Museum Europe

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

Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

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. My career first got moving at a brilliant example of the customer-centered museum: the International Spy Museum.

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Museum Audience Music Arts

Helping Strangers Participate through Instructions: Deconstructing the MP3 Experiment

Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. The MP3 experiment is a model for how a typically isolating experience—listening to headphones in public—can become the basis for a powerful interpersonal experience with strangers.

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Instruction Instructional Nicaragua Experiment

Don't Talk to Strangers? Safety 2.0

Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

By the standard set by a culture that judges MySpace as dangerous, perhaps these in-person interactions are even MORE dangerous. social networking model to the real world, the implications of tracking, publishing, and spreading become obvious. Is it safer to engage with strangers in this faux-exclusive environment?

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Museum Myspace Facilitation Social Network

The Story of Stuff: An Inspiring Example of A Network in Action

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

When you have a group of people working together in a network-culture and are facile with the tools, it can be unstoppable. 2) Networks are participatory. 4) Networks are a reflection of where the world is going. There’s a big paradigm shift in everything from our relationship to material goods to organizational models.

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Story Network Action Examples

AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose

[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. That facilitator has to be able to manage many different personalities, the different cultures, different experiences. And there was a lot of cultural misunderstandings, something very basic. How do we do this well? Are communication channels clear?

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Community Video Slides Survey

What Do You Need to Make the Argument for Participatory Design?

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. The book is intended to be a practical guide to participatory museum experiences focused on design strategies, case studies, and activities. The WHY of participatory design is really important. And there’s a third reason.

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Participatory Design Museum Wiki

The Great Good Place Book Discussion Part 5: Oldenburg on the LAM

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

It is crucial that LAMs be considered public civic spaces, but Oldenburg's model leaves a lot to be desired. The ideal of third places, that attracts we cultural heritage types, is a democratic space where civic life is built collaboratively and at a personal level. And John Cotton Dana's department store model is an interesting one.

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Place Discussion Library Museum

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The Story of Stuff: An Inspiring Example of A Network in Action

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