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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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We received two rounds of NSF funding in the 1990s to expand. We received NSF funding for three years and then it cut off. In fact, we have almost no individual donors. How are Workshop locations selected? The first one was in the Mission. At that time, we expanded to Watsonville , where strawberries come from.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

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Funders and potential donors tend to look for particular benchmarks of professionalism (appropriately), and few are comfortable funding the most risky or content-specific institutions. Why are museums going in the other direction, trying to become more consistent rather than celebrating their idiosyncrasies? But that's only part of the story.

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