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COVID-19 case study: Changing funding practices in Europe

Candid

Foundations also demonstrated their willingness to support experimentation and learning by actively listening to grantees and communities; giving them more visibility; amplifying grantees’ voices; connecting more with the lived experiences of their grantees and community members; and making their grantmaking more participatory. .

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Getting from “no” to “yes” for climate justice

Candid

Our new guide provides helpful and instructive case studies to illustrate how other funders have taken such steps. . It also explains how the McKnight Foundation is connecting its participatory democracy work with climate justice efforts in historically marginalized communities. .

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Human-Centered Design & AI: Google AI Impact Summit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I was lucky enough to attend the Google Impact AI Summit that shared the learning and case studies from Google AI Challenge winners. The Summit included presentations, panel discussions, and a “science fair” where we could see demos from and talk with the winners.

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What strategies can nonprofit leaders use to move program beneficiaries into program partners?

ASU Lodestar Center

Organizations experience increased social capital and higher accountability to their stakeholders, all according to a case study by the European Management Journal. Use participatory evaluation , as Rabinowitz suggests. Beneficiaries who are asked for their feedback have feelings of usefulness and increased self-esteem.

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The ongoing revolution in philanthropy: An open-ended reading list

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Empowering Communities: Participatory Grantmakers Say We Must Go beyond Feedback. Equity in the Center: Video Case Studies. Community-based participatory research. Philanthropy is at a turning point. Here are 6 ways it could go.

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A Crash Course in Design Thinking for Network Leadership Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes. It was followed by this: 4.

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Book Announcement: The Participatory Museum is now available!

Museum 2.0

The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. Over the past four years, there's been lots of discussion about the "why" of visitor participation, but in my opinion, we've been lacking a good resource on the "how." The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource.