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Community historians: scaffolding community engagement through culture and heritage

East bay heritage : a potpourri of living history | WorldCat.org

Giving What We Can, 80,000 Hours, and Meta-Charity - Less Wrong

Disclaimer: I’m somewhat nervous about posting this, for fear of down-voting on my first LW post, given that this post explicitly talks in a positive light about organisations that I have helped to set up. But I think that the topic is of interest to LW-ers, and I’m hoping to start a rational discussion. So here it goes…

Center for a Stateless Society

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History Cooperative

Our modern world is shaped by the decisions, actions, and events of generations past. To understand who we are, explore how we got here at History Cooperative.

Governance Archaeology: Research as Ancestry

Abstract. This essay presents the idea of governance archaeology, an approach to learning from the past to inform the politics of the future. By reporting on a prototype historical database, we outline a strategy for co-producing a global commons of collective governance practices that can inspire institutional learning and experimentation, particularly in the face of rapid technological change and vexing global crises. Embedded in our approach is an orientation of ancestry whereby practitioners cultivate relationships of accountability and responsibility to the legacies they learn from, recognizing the harm from past patterns of exploitation. By taking seriously a wide range of historical governance practices, particularly those outside the Western canon, governance archaeology seeks to expand the options available for the design of more moral political economies.

Community groups' 'vital' disaster recovery work undervalued, report finds

A new Western Sydney University report finds grassroots organisations are often the first and last responders, but often face burnout.

Historicale

Test your knowledge of history by ordering events on a timeline. A daily historical chronology challenge.

A Generous Grift: Museums, Finance Capital, and the Clash of Cultural Workers and Collector-Trustees — The Lab

A Generous Grift: Museums, Finance Capital, and the Clash of Cultural Workers and Collector-Trustees

Framing charitable donations as exceptional expenses increases giving.

What Makes a Donor Donate? - Freakonomics

What Makes a Donor Donate? - Freakonomics

Ten more unintuitive things about impact philanthropy fundraising

some more lessons I’ve learned, for the $free.99

Meet the army of amateur archivists racing to save US history in national parks

Save Our Signs aims to document every sign in the more than 400 national parks and historic sites across the country before the Trump administration removes them