Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

Issue 98

Issue Resource New Mexico Mexico 98

The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes Celebrate, Educate, and Fundraise: Planning Winning AAPI Heritage Month Events As the vibrant tapestry of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month unfolds, the opportunity to celebrate, educate, and inspire through impactful events is immense. Artists, writers, and cultural leaders.

Celebrate 59

Celebrate Education Fundraising Culture 59

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

It incorporates work by local artists, old and new construction, and is completely gorgeous. She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. This brought other voices into the tour, but more importantly, it modeled a potential interaction that we could have.

Museum 51

Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. I've often been asked about examples of participatory practice in theater, dance, and classical music, and this report is a great starting point.

Participatory 50

Participatory Arts Report Case Study 50

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. While a funder can have impact in directing organizational leaders to turn their heads in a particular direction, it's often negative externalities--financial pressure, political changes--that spur organizations to significant action.

Museum 20

Museum Participatory Resource Place 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. This project wove together many different participatory threads. We'd love to see this model evolve and grow. Short story: we learned a lot.

Issue 45

Issue Childhood Community Create 45

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.”. Participants voted on the questions that would be most important for the Brainerd Foundation to consider in its strategy: How might we adopt a hybrid model of new and old power? How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

Design 50

Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50