The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Aim to create an inclusive, welcoming atmosphere that brings together diverse AAPI communities and builds bonds. Not only does this provide powerful role models for attendees, but it can boost interest and attendance at your event. Collaborate with AAPI leaders to ensure your programming is authentic and resonates well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). ” This builds trust and establishes your objectivity. It lets the speaker hear what they just said and can build trust.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

This morning I had the great pleasure and honor to present at Amplified Leicester about Community-Driven Social Impact, and run a short strategy-building workshop. To provide practical examples of how collaborative technologies can be exploited in a city context. That you know your community.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Since 2010 I have seen, again and again and again, how valuable human facilitation is to the participatory process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. This is a problem for two reasons.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

By creating opportunities for engagement, the nonprofit sector is responsible for building cohesion and social capital. Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. posted by Shayla Hubbard Project Coordinator, University of Arizona College of Medicine.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. This is a problem for two reasons.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations. Every time we collaborate, we learn new ways to improve our process, organization and communication. We realize collaboration differs greatly for each individual and organization.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

And it''s got me thinking about how we build energy and audience for the arts in this country. Who their role models are. AYSO builds both the players and the audiences for soccer''s future in this county at all levels. To me, this kind of pipeline is necessary to build future audiences and practitioners in the arts.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Since then, Stacey has become an indispensable member of our staff, leading our community programs and inspiring us to think in new ways about how we can build social capital in our community. Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

This is key to building relevant brands. The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. It is a truly collaborative effort, and rather than us being design or marketing experts coming to “help” everyone, we become co-collaborators of developing solutions together. .

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. After her passing in 1997 the building remained shut, filled to the brim with things knotted, tied, and bagged in chaotic organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Documentation of the Visioning Process. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. Instead, I walked into a lush garden in the middle of the city. Birds flew through the proceedings.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I'm incredibly proud of all the staff, trustees, volunteers, collaborators, visitors, and members who have made this happen. We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county. They all have in concert, and they build on each other. Community response.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. THINGS I’M MOST PROUD OF: Redefining our role in the community. THINGS THAT SURPRISE ME: The central role of event-driven experiences.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. As the museum's website puts it, "this exhibition examines how artists have engaged members of the public as essential collaborators in the art-making process."

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2012

In this full-time role, you will be responsible for interactive exhibition development, project management of all our site-specific work, and you will lead the redevelopment of our permanent History Gallery into a more dynamic, participatory, and flexible space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. So, it is important for the host to hold a call with the facilitation team to clarify expectations for the session outcomes and team authority/decision-making roles. Defining Roles.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. This isn't just a rhetorical question.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Games’ strength is not showing “this is the problem, and here is the answer,” but to broaden players’ perspectives, build engagement, and ask “what are some ways we could address this?” government and encouraging participatory democracy. ” Senate Immersion Module.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. Giant collaborative tweetups show we like to work together. But every time a museum social account responded to another museum we saw this form of collaboration.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

I had lots of creative formats for drawing people out, sharing stories, and working collaboratively. The Art of Gathering expanded my understanding of what it means to build a powerful culture of participation. The way you welcome, the way you host, the rules you make, the way you say goodbye--all these play major roles as well.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. This year, the Yale Philanthropy Conference will explore the evolving role of philanthropy within this ecosystem of change. Fundraising is all about creating trust and building relationships. Governance / @usdsoles.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration / Cancún Yucatán, (Int.) New ways to collaborate with each other.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And things go wrong: roles aren’t clear, timelines extend, or people disagree. It often takes clarity of roles and purview and even some structure to do that. In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

For a long time, I knew I cared deeply about designing from "me to we" --inviting visitors to form social connections through participatory experiences--but I couldn't express a clear reason why. Bridging is essential to building strong, safe, diverse communities. Social bridging is becoming my why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

principles that has turned the web from pushed to participatory. There are better and more efficient channels for collaboration, conference calls for one. " The answers: The subject is best learned through role-playing. Why did these and others fail and why is Second Life really pointing the. way to the future?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

In early 2014, we developed a set of five engagement goals: Relevant, Sustainable, Bridging, Participatory, Igniting. PARTICIPATORY : Invites diverse community members to make meaningful contributions as co-creators, collaborators, and energized constituents. This is a big year for us in naming and evaluating our work.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

Renee Rubin Ross will provide concrete steps organizational leaders can take to plan strategically, building investment, ownership and fundraising. But there are some benefits, some real clear benefits of inclusive participatory strategic planning. Dr. Ross: Yes, absolutely. Steven: All right, cool. Well, good afternoon, everybody.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

3 People Power People Power puts you in the role of a movement leader trying to fight oppression through non-violent revolution. 2 Participatory Chinatown In this game, you're transported to Boston's Chinatown to view the development of new areas through the perspective of the varied citizens that make up their corner of the city.

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Candid

JUNE 21, 2022

In addition to representing Candid, I was there to learn about trends in the European philanthropic sector and explore opportunities for collaboration. The conversation also focused on vaccination, the global collaborative process, and philanthropy’s response. New funding models: spotlight on participatory grantmaking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

My colleague, Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans have just published an important piece over on the Harvard Business School blog called “ Understanding the New Power ” that gives us a great high level analysis of how collaborative economy is operating in the social good sector. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

If ever there was a mandate to reexamine the role and process of funding, now is that time. Program staff have less time to commit to partnership, capacity building, and mutual accountability. Both software and data will play a critical role in operationalizing these streamlined, agile processes. Be transparent and responsive.

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