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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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Kristine’s Story The goal of the Kitchen Cabinet was to talk about the great things restaurants do in Milwaukee. Pre-COVID, we had a program called the Milwaukee Kitchen Cabinet. This exchange of ideas is a powerful partnership for everyone involved. “On I’ve always understood the importance of relationships,” Kristine noted.

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To Survive a Crisis, Lean Into Trust—CEOs Share Pandemic Stories

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Lockdown regulations were enforced one way in Dane County, another way in Milwaukee, and yet another way in Northern Wisconsin,” Kristine advised. We also established a public/private coalition in Milwaukee to learn how restaurants could apply public health regulations to reopen. We organized the usual Zoom happy hours.

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Gathering: looking back

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Like all entrepreneurs, we're told we're crazy and that our ideas are faulty. Luckily, other folks prevailed on Jim to get medical attention and he soldiered on with his one crutch. The Gathering is designed to help stave off the loneliness so many social entrepreneurs face.

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Navigation by Recommendation: Lessons Learned from a Little Experiment

Museum 2.0

I spent some time playing with this question last week at the Milwaukee Art Museum, a large general museum that is moving toward redesign of the permanent galleries. The idea was to make lots of these cards and lay them on the floor around the galleries so if you wanted, you could follow them to a (potentially interesting) work.

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Secret Agent L: Covering the Globe with Random Acts of Kindess

Have Fun - Do Good

My colleagues are very supportive, and excited to know that I'm a part of it, and they're excited about the attention that the project has gotten. I'm imagining that there are some listeners who have ideas for projects that they think would make the world a better place, but maybe they're not sure and are wondering, "Is it a good idea?

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[VIDEO] 5 Must-Do’s of Year-End Fundraising Success

Bloomerang

We are competing for attention at a level we have never seen in our lifetimes. So another client of mine, Upstream Arts, they provide programming in the Minneapolis schools, the Milwaukee School District, and I think they’re going to a couple other states now. But also you want to pay attention to retention and acquisition.

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One Web. For All.

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OneWebDay organizers will call attention to efforts that work to ensure that anyone who wants it has access to the Internet and the skills they need to engage, powerfully. We are putting some ideas and tools out there to catalyze that creativity. This year's theme -- One Web. Happy OneWebDay!

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