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Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do with It?

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In philanthropy, unlike democracy, there is often no way for people to participate–to share what they think or to influence decisions. Lots of grantmakers are intrigued by participatory grantmaking. Participatory grantmaking invites to decision-making tables people who have historically been excluded. Those at the top decide.

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Guest Post: Restoration Artwork

Museum 2.0

Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. Successful” artworks draw out qualities in the collection, reflect material histories, and show the artists’ process and conceptualization. Restoration is a formal gesture for most museums.

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Growth Hacking Your Mission With People Power

Connection Cafe

Anyone with a smartphone, passion for a cause and few hundred followers can raise awareness, mobilize support around an issue, and raise money from friends and family, and are already doing so. It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.” Rise of Peer Influence. A revolutionary force of change— the individual.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. It is our turn to make history. General / #NI16 / @netimpact.

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Are the Arts Habit-Forming?

Museum 2.0

Museums and other venues are offering special programs for teens, for hipsters, for people who want a more active or spiritual or participatory experience. If we want to transform museums into place for everyday use that people drop in on for a quick fix of history, a meeting with a friend, or a cup of coffee, what will that require?

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