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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 places that succeeded, at that point, a local coalition was in place to fund the Workshop. We''re really different from traditional science centers in our funding model.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

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It's not the extent to which they are participatory. 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. But when I really think about it, all my favorites (so far) have one thing in common.

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