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Designing for Nonprofits: Our Commentary + Experience

Media Cause

Within Media Cause’s Creative, Brand, and Design team, one of our favorite things to do— besides creating incredible work for our clients—is sharing inspirational and educational resources with each other: articles, POVs, webinars, classes, books, case studies, blogs, tutorials, cheese. What would the structure be like?

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Diversity in Design: Inclusion Won’t Fix a Broken System

Media Cause

What were structures in places at the time? . To look at design’s diversity problem without discussing current and former power structures is to ignore the root causes and only treat the symptoms. Many people can’t afford the things we make, and our imagined users are molded by our biases and current power structures.

Design 52
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Rethinking Community Advisory Boards: the Story of C3

Museum 2.0

CON: can make people feel like second-class board members instead of equal leaders in the organization. As one African-American artist on a prominent museum board told me, "I felt even more tokenized than if I had been part of some kind of Artists'' Council or African-American Council." Meet them here.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You can collaborate with other nonprofits in your region or in your issue area to investigate whether you can all offer benefits for each other. Sometimes a nonprofit has access to world-class chefs, celebrities, artists, or architects or well-known lawmakers. Consult with an attorney if you plan to do this. Get creative.

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Hackerspaces: DIY Science Centers for Adults

Museum 2.0

And their unique structure and bottom-up approach offers some instructive lessons for museums that want to really embrace visitors and members as co-creators of the institutional experience. Most hackerspaces have very transparent legal structures and operate on a consensus model. This isn't just a geek thing.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

Museum 2.0

Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. This kind of engagement ladder provides a structured framework for participation without overly constraining how people get involved.

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Answers to the Ten Questions I am Most Often Asked

Museum 2.0

Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. This kind of engagement ladder provides a structured framework for participation without overly constraining how people get involved.