I'm really interested in this question as well. I would venture to guess that it would be quite hard to transition for older, smaller orgs on the flattened model whereas orgs founded in the last ten years

I'm kind of shocked by the heat that this post is generating and I don't want to escalate the discussion into a more defensive place. But I believe that @tmaust has raised some necessary, if uncomfortable,

Give us bread, but give us roses.

Exactly. "Why won't people take the whole day off work to come into Center City and learn about white people?!?!!" Baffling!

Good eye! You know as well as I do the early struggle between the P.T. Barnum model and the "learned societies." I've got another quotation for you from the very first director of the Met, Luigi

What a fascinating find!! This is so wacko and such a flimsy case- I hope nobody was prosecuted, but given Chicago's history of tensions between labor and the police, I wouldn't be surprised.

I never really thought much about the difference in grain consumption until I found out that the "Vollkorn" I was seeing everywhere actually meant like whole grain, and that "Korn"

Yeah, I mean scientists are just people, prone to human error and prejudice. This reminds me of a Radiolab episode I heard recently which you might find interesting:

This is great! I love the (then-) experimental idea of making music for a topsy-turvy world using the diatonic scale, etc. It fits in with the themes of Dada, too. Maybe you are also a fan of Erik Satie?

I added a short bit at the top! I've been wanting to write about pellagra for a long time, and the Journal of the Franklin Institute article just gave me a good entry point. I think it's a good counterpoint

Thanks, Charlie! I pulled this from my thesis research, so it's something I am chewing on a lot of the time... and I get pretty frustrated with what seems like a hundred years worth of attempts at reinventing

This is the part where I bring up the privileged dynamics of flâneurie and how experiences and opportunities to engage in this kind of activity are strikingly different according to one's gender identity,

If we'd gotten around to reading Walter Benjamin in Material Culture, you'd know all about it ;)

What I actually meant to say was that many modern museums and other cultural institutions aren't aspiring to anything beyond access and education. While that was an innovative and crazy goal in 1892, over

What a great idea!

Thank you for reading! It was a lot of fun, so I just might :)

@gvgktang, I'm so glad that you wrote this (and so succinctly!) and also that you brought attention to the anthology, which I hadn't seen before. I agree with the solutions that you set out here and I

I see what you're saying (and I can think of a couple of examples!) Do you think it would it be fairer to characterize inertia like this as a choice that (directly or indirectly) positions board/staff

I think mine is the applesauce version written by someone caught between social classes but whose thesis and potential livelihood take for granted the current, entrenched system of nonprofit administration

"If you can identify your problems but do nothing to rectify them, you didn’t want your nonprofit to survive." Well said! I think this analogy can be applied pretty broadly. Lots of people out