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Highlights from Candid’s most popular philanthropic resources in 2023?

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HBCUs have been critical in educating Black people, developing Black leaders, and addressing inequality throughout U.S. Community Fund: A Participatory Grantmaking Case Study , by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative   This case study offers a first-hand look at fostering community collaboration in philanthropy.

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How Museum Hack Transforms Museum Tours: Interview with Dustin Growick

Museum 2.0

A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in. Dustin is a science instructor at the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) by day, Museum Hack tour developer/leader at AMNH by night. Dustin: About a year ago I met a couple of people from Museum Hack at a conference.

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The film that lite the tinderbox of protests is disgusting and insulting to a people of Islamic faith and yes social media can accelerate protests and violent responses quickly (as it can accelerate social good.) “When people who were born and raised in dictatorships. It is also raising questions about censorship on the Internet.

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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

Museum 2.0

Last month, the IMLS published a report on a survey of 1,700 people, with similar findings about trustworthiness of museums and libraries, and some great added information about how use of the internet benefits both museums (with higher in-person visitation) and visitors (with more ways to find information of interest).

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A Decade of Museums and Museum Work

Museum 2.0

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. People are seeing that collection knowledge should be shared in ways that center the visitor instead of the museum. Many people were in the throes of expansion.

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Designing Talkback Platforms for Different Dialogic Goals

Museum 2.0

People answer questions differently in harshly lit interrogation rooms than they do in welcoming therapists' offices or in the privacy of their own computer terminals. This technique was used in the Slavery in New York exhibition at the New-York Historical Society and continues in the popular StoryCorps project.

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The Voicemail Museum: A Call-In Collection

Museum 2.0

It's an experiment that merges two of my greatest interests: finding novel, easy ways for visitors to contribute content to museums finding questions that draw such compelling responses that random peoples' answers would be worth browsing To participate, all you need is a phone. Why did so many people participate? Second, granularity.

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