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Participatory Grantmaking: I’m in! Now what?

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You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. Not sure if participatory grantmaking is for you or maybe you need a refresher on what it is? Is this you?

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The Johnny Cash Project: A Participatory Music Video That Sings

Museum 2.0

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. Are you making that shift in your thinking about participatory project design?

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Its] mission is to make books affordable for every child in India.”

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How Museum Hack Transforms Museum Tours: Interview with Dustin Growick

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They were “preaching the museum gospel” in NYC via alternative tours at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. We use language throughout the tour to encourage the interpersonal, e.g. “make eye contact with two new museum friends.” comfort interactives participatory museum programs Unusual Projects and Influences'

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A Decade of Museums and Museum Work

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I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. 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.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

When listeners called, they were able to choose their language. Sullivan said that this dual language ability increased the complexity of the Freedom Fone interface quite a bit. . The participatory radio campaign approach was used to enhance existing systems, not add new content or processes to the farm radio stations.

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What is the Turkey and the Bread (or the Sourdough Starter) of the MAH?

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Other times, a visitor might use the exact language of our strategic documents. I've also started tinkering with an alternate food-related metaphor for this quandary: sourdough. Sometimes, a donor might identify something I hadn't considered--like being located right in the middle of a vibrant downtown.

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