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The Cultural Community Initiative

The Cultural Community Initiative exists to help develop and perpetuate cultural heritage documentation and presentation programs operated and funded by people of shared cultural identity interested in learning from and caring for their past. The emergence of digital imaging technology offers a great opportunity to communities of common heritage desiring to celebrate their culture and, if they wish, share it with the world.

One reason for this opportunity is that the use of digital documentation is in its infancy. Many of the best uses for this technology have yet to be invented. Through our Cultural Communities Initiative, CHI hopes to stimulate the imagination of people around the world to develop innovative programs that employ cultural content.

The Cultural Community Initiative is based on the following concepts:

-	Each cultural community is unique.
-	Each community must find its own path to the best management of its cultural assets.
-	Exposure to the culture of our ancestors can have a positive effect in the present.
-	New imaging tools, and the content they generate, can stimulate community vision to make use of these resources in beneficial ways.
-	The value of these innovations to the community and the world can generate the support to perpetuate them.

CHI's role:

CHI is always willing to talk to members of cultural communities about how to get local imagineering started. Contact Us.

CHI consulting services can promote the creation of beneficial uses for digital cultural community content and can help demystify the process of adopting digital documentation and management practices.

Sometimes gathering a representative set of digital cultural content can serve as a 'proof of concept' starting point for the development of community programs. CHI's documentation services can generate this content. The content can be packaged and distributed in ways that help generate ideas, support, and funding from local and outside sources.

Once support for a community documentary project is secured, CHI's training and consulting services can prepare members of the community to carry on the documentary work.

As a 501(c)(3) corporation, CHI may be able to help secure funding for projects, or administer funds for organizations without this status, if it fits within CHI's mission and priorities.

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