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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

"While none of these approaches cost a lot of money, they certainly require staff time to support. 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." Go read it.

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Which New Audiences? A Great Washington Post Article and its Implications about Age, Income, and Race

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Audiences of all backgrounds found ways to connect with museums as it presented exhibitions with the help of foster youth, migrant farmers, roller-derby girls, mushroom hunters, surfers and incarcerated artists, among others. I'm also always interested in how the national media portrays changes in the cultural sector.

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Designing for Nonprofits: Our Commentary + Experience

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While much of the branding and design inspiration we run across is either from consumer brands or individual artists, it all provides us with the opportunity to discover new principles, practices, and approaches that we can incorporate into our nuanced nonprofit world. However, creating accessible work does not have to be hard, or expensive.

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How We Doubled Attendance in a Year: One More Post about How Events Changed Our Attendance

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It happened because we: partnered with local artists and community organizations whose passion and generosity made it possible for us to create incredible events. We created programming specifically targeted to families with young kids and adults looking for casual, intriguing, affordable cultural experiences on Friday nights and Saturdays.

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Goodbye Consulting, Hello Museum of Art & History!

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The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time. By November of 2010, I had a business plan for the cafe and intended to start raising money in 2011. I strongly believe that participation is more about operation than development.

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Dangerous/Ridiculous: Reflections on AAM

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Talking about money, openly. I led a session with Eric Siegel and Ellen Rosenthal on museum business models and some of the issues we grapple with in managing money. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise.

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Temple Contemporary and the Puzzle of Sharing Powerful Processes

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Looking closer, I saw that each seat had its own handwritten label, telling the story of the Philadelphia cultural institution from which it originated. They were there for artist talks. There's no money to fix them. The chairs were cast-off art, reclaimed as art, available for people to take off the hooks and use.

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