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

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Lots of grantmakers are intrigued by participatory grantmaking. Participatory grantmaking invites to decision-making tables people who have historically been excluded. Why Would a Grantmaker Choose a Participatory Grantmaking Approach? So, what does participatory grantmaking look like in practice? Those at the top decide.

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

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Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s.

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Guest Post: Restoration Artwork

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Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. They maintain a creative autonomy and intimate relation with the museum and its collection that empowers them to play with and transform the visual environment.

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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

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I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. I''ve never worked in such a supportive, energized, active environment. We work hard to name and build our culture in many ways. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. Naming our goals and our culture.

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Guest Post: Considering a Commons in Collection at the Elsewhere Collaborative

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Over time the movement and arrangement of things trails a layered aesthetic that convey histories and narratives of changing communities passing through this unfolding three-story artwork. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Guest Post: A New Role for Science Museums--Playground for Scientists

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As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play. We worked with a social scientist studying the power of being able to walk away from an uncooperative environment to develop Experimonth: Freeloader , a public-goods game where players decide whether to invest in their group or freeload.

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Guest Post by Geoff Livingston: Creating Movements

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We are asked to do it in controlled environments. Yet, our executives and managers, our internal stakeholders cannot understand the open culture. I began our talk today with my personal nonprofit history. Instead, how can you use your Facebook group to engage your fellows, change your work environment, and spark your movement.

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