Public voting for the 14 Business Unusual National Challenge Semi-Finalists closed on Friday, May 31 at 11:59PM Eastern. Many thanks to all who participated! For a recap of the voting process and an update about the Finalist round, read our update here.
Learn about the third phase, an experimental crowdsourcing initiative that concluded on July 25, 2013, here.
We will approach our work in a community-centric vs. arts-centric way and redefine our relationship with our communities.
We will extend our reach beyond the web into live space with events that model nonhierarchical conversations and seamlessly integrate with our online network.
We will dedicate our time to finding a new archive model that empowers individuals to customize their discovery of dance film.
We will provide the infrastructure to practitioners in the field to develop and implement entrepreneurial artistic and business practices that will enable sustainability.
We will design and implement pathways to leadership for and by young people.
We will develop a package of support services for world music artists in the United States.
We will create an open-access, interactive project to develop a pluralistic aesthetic for black people and philosophy of personal beauty.
We will steward a peer-to-peer digital currency that matches artists’ needs to the community’s available resources.
We will create new, sustainable ways of earning revenue through social enterprise.
We will create a unique share-model that will scale up our internal ensemble practice to an organizational level.
We will create a new, physical delivery system to engage public media audiences in community dialogue.
We will enlist individuals in our community as impassioned participants in our cause and joint owners in our work.
We will develop a new revenue model that will engage a wider group of government and industry stakeholders and beneficiaries.
We will establish our physical, multipurpose space as an interface to engage the nonprofit and for-profit sectors in Silicon Valley.