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How Nonprofits Can Help Free Culture and Benefit from the Public Domain

NonProfit Quarterly

To make art is to borrow from others, from culture, but under current law, all expressive worksfrom books to blog postsautomatically receive copyright protection. In a small way, this will help raise the visibility of the commons, as many open licenses require the license to be displayed with the work to use it for free.

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Dr. James explains what happens when fundraising metrics go bad

iMarketSmart

But they aren’t helpful as a short-term metric to guide behavior. Metrics can help, but only a little. When metrics reflect a top-down distrust of fundraisers, they don’t help.[16] This is true across human cultures. Short-term, transactional behavior signals the absence of a mutual sharing or helping relationship.

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What’s in a Name? The Ethics of Building Naming Gifts

Stanford Social Innovation Review

For the past three decades, I have guided museums, nonprofit arts organizations, and higher education institutions in planning, programming, fundraising for, and promoting new or renovated cultural facilities that fulfill mission imperatives. Some constituents and critics view this as a lapse in ethical judgment.

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