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Our Museum: Extraordinary Resources on How Museums and Galleries Become Participatory Places

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And in several cases, the projects constituted "empowerment lite" for participants rather than true collaboration, co-creation, or transformation. These two lessons are probably true of any major institutional change process (swapping the word "participation" with the focus of the change). Here are my three top takeaways.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We will use the time to debrief and experiment with a few of these techniques — some of which would have been modeled during the conference. Small groups can be conversations, peer assists or shares, or an exercise that can be done collaboratively or working alone together. Begin Connections.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

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Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. The projects can range from preschools, to libraries and computer training centers, to women empowerment programs. It's the same thing in a development context.

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Make a Statement: Defining Your Nonprofit Mission and Vision Statements 

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However, it is important to invite collaboration from stakeholders to ensure broad perspective, relevance, and audience accessibility. Let’s take a short detour back to our school days, specifically English class, and the lessons on verb tense. leadership, collaboration, empowerment).

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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

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What we do here in Oakland, and throughout the Bay Area, is we work with inner city companies that not only have a scalable model, but also have a social responsibility aspect built into their business model. We don't really have a mentorship model, but how do you find someone who can be a sounding board to you?

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Guest Post by Nora Grant: Lessons from A Year of Pop Up Museums

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There are many different models, including The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History , The New York Met , SF Mobile Museum , and even a Pop Up Prison Museum. We choose themes and venues in collaboration with a community partner. How can you take something as substantial and precious as a museum and add a pop up twist?

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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

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It seemed to be a really good and sustainable model, and we raised around $300,000 doing that kind of work. The other thing that Off the Mat, Into the World does is that we create and model our own outreach projects, but on a grander scale. I knew that for me, I needed to run towards it to understand it, its power and its lesson.