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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. Perhaps you’ll start by reading about other models , watching webinars, or developing ideas. Is this you?

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Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work Is Core to Equitable Change

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When we momentarily set aside the many foundation models or toolkits for addressing a particular task, we start to remember that the essence of knowledge is shared meaning making—how we, together, come to understand and engage in community, in the world around us, and in change itself. Whether knowledge is spoken or not, it is public.

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Anyone Who Says this isn't a Business is Nuts.

Museum 2.0

In the Netherlands, State Secretary for Culture Halbe Zijlstra slashed 200 million euros from the national budget for the arts, leading to the close of the innovative National History Museum project and crippling many superbly inventive and inspiring organizations like Mediamatic and the Waag Society. Well, they only cost me $8 apiece.

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What's Your $12,720 Idea for New Ways of Engaging with Audiences?

Museum 2.0

They are soliciting project proposals for innovative forms of audience engagement. The strongest proposals will be wholly original and theoretically grounded. Proposals are due by February 5, 2015. What new models are currently being used in this field? The theme this year is "audiences." strangers visitors'

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

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2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. It is the newest fundraising model of these three, and spreading wildly as a way to get individual projects or ideas off the ground. Learn more below, and RSVP today to reserve your space.

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How Do You Capture Compelling Visitor Stories? Interview with Christina Olsen

Museum 2.0

Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project. There hasn’t been a history of collaboration between the museum and the film center and we wanted the chance to partner more deeply, and build a platform where we could continue to do so.

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Reflections on MuseumNext and Facilitating Brainstorming

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I was very interested in the way an event like this can effectively flip the standard model for brainstorming with outsiders; rather than each project leader paying individuals to come help work on their project, everyone paid to come and help each other. That said, the phrase "structured opportunity" is where MuseumNext suffered most.