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Resilience Rides the Waves of Disruption

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The goal is to develop short, mid, and long-range strategies with flexibility baked into the design. Pre-COVID, we had a program called the Milwaukee Kitchen Cabinet. Today, in Milwaukee, the group has gone on to consider public safety, another issue that’s critical for restaurants. But COVID reinforced that lesson.

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COVID-related National Service cannot just be gap year for privileged youth

ASU Lodestar Center

It has the potential not only to help build or rebuild much-needed community support systems ravaged by this pandemic, but also — if designed intentionally — to be an integral part of the nation’s intergenerational poverty-interruption arsenal. A massive expansion of service is required to meet today’s challenges.

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Nonprofit Weekly for Friday, October 14, 2011 - BizTimes

AFP Blog

MKE123 is now housed under the Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee. The online platform is really designed to meet the needs of the nonprofit community in the Greater Milwaukee area,” said Matt Brown, project director of MKE 123.

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Gathering: looking back

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The Gathering is designed to help stave off the loneliness so many social entrepreneurs face. Another person with equal dedication was Julann Jatczak, who was chairing the program committee for a second Gathering (her first was also successful: the Milwaukee Gathering a few years back)!

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Wandering Down the "Don't Touch" Line

Museum 2.0

And this works pretty well in science museums, where designers talk about "hardening" exhibits to withstand the more aggressive touchers among us. The Milwaukee Art Museum has a video explaining do's and don'ts of the museum for children. Maybe there are design solutions that introduce barriers in less stark ways than casework.

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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. I was there for a think tank about the reinstallation along with a handful of designers and academics. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent.

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Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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This tool was designed to assess OPPORTUNITY COST; namely, if youre spending time doing something with a lower return on investment than another opportunity, you should stop doing it and choose the investment with the higher potential return. February 9, 2009 | KM - Milwaukee, USA Marketing is only a part of it.