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Shared Facilities

Model of Success: IT Resource Centers for Nonprofits

November 11, 2010
Thumbnail image for Model of Success: IT Resource Centers for Nonprofits Several nonprofit centers offer selected IT or communication services.  The Marin Nonprofit Resource Center offers fiber-optic internet service and public wireless, remote access, and telephone and voice mail systems for tenants.  The Sobrato Community Center for Nonprofits offers a state-of-the-art Computer Training Lab available for rent. The Nonprofit Innovation Center in Sacramento offers some IT [...]
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Shared Facilities: Multi-Purpose Community Arts, National Museum of Mexican Art

November 2, 2010
Thumbnail image for Shared Facilities: Multi-Purpose Community Arts, National Museum of Mexican Art The Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum has grown to become the National Museum of Mexican Art.  Its beginnings were much less auspicious, starting with its founding in 1987 in the converted Boat Craft Shop.  The story of how cultural connections and business and community collaboration came together is told in The Creative Community Builder’s Handbook [...]
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Shared Facilities: Multi-Purpose Community Arts, MASS MoCA

November 2, 2010
Thumbnail image for Shared Facilities: Multi-Purpose Community Arts, MASS MoCA The vision for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) was originally to reuse an electronics components plant to display contemporary art.  Its vision grew to be a cultural partnership, with “contemporary performing and interdisciplinary arts, artist residences, and stronger ties to the history and culture of the local community”.  It is one of [...]
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Collaboration in the Form of Shared Space

November 2, 2010
Thumbnail image for Collaboration in the Form of Shared Space The vision of the Nonprofit Innovation Center, a program of the Sierra Health Foundation, is “to help area nonprofits become more effective, so they can better support efforts to improve the health and well-being of residents in our communities” and to establish a model of “collaboration in the form of shared space”.  The Center offers [...]
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Models of Success: Center for Healthy Communities

November 1, 2010
Thumbnail image for Models of Success: Center for Healthy Communities The Center for Healthy Communities was created by The California Endowment.  Through the Center, “the Endowment transcends the traditional role of philanthropy and becomes part of a dedicated community of changemakers”. The Center offers several unique services for tenants, including the Health ExChange Academy, their signature capacity-building program; and Center Scene Public Programs, a series [...]
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Foundations Build Communities of Shared Nonprofit Workspace

November 1, 2010
Thumbnail image for Foundations Build Communities of Shared Nonprofit Workspace Planting a Seed: Foundations Build Communities of Shared Nonprofit Workspace (PDF) is an information-packed report by the The Nonprofit Centers Network website, a program of the Tides Shared Spaces initiative of the Tides Foundation.  The report highlights 20 stories of foundations successfully creating shared workspace, for programmatic theme centers, services centers, multi-sector centers, and community [...]
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