Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2016

The more my organization has become focused on community engagement, the more we've balanced being experience producers with being experience co-creators/facilitators. The partners we work with--to catalyze projects within and beyond our walls--are just as important as our visitors to fulfilling our mission.

San Diego 20

San Diego Work Museum Model 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them.

Experiment 116

Experiment Learning Create Exercise 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2008

Does your work and interests include how information and communication technology (ICTs) can be used to promote social change? Do you use or champion innovative uses of ICTs to work or network more efficiently? Do you work in an organization whose mission includes social or economic development? The Women???s

Mentoring 50

Mentoring Nigeria Project Network 50

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We believed that our museum programming would improve if we spent more time as staff members and trustees learning and working with these leaders on their projects throughout the County. Our work would become more relevant, our collaborations more timely, our network more diverse.

Community 39

Community Story Museum Map 39

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Microsoft researchers are collaborating with the academic community on environmental problems, such as aggregation and visualization of complex scientific data from many sources. The program works in partnership with states across the country. "Our "Our philanthropy has to ignite action. We need leverage points."

Network 103

Network Change Technology Social 103

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

From regular meetings with the companies of Volunteer Canada’s Corporate Community Engagement Council and our work with client companies, we know that for much of March and April, companies were cautious to ask employees to give more of themselves in such trying times. In your opinion, what does the future look like for volunteering?

Canada 27

Canada Volunteer Virtual Companies 27

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Our museum is highly participatory: plenty of opportunities for visitors to contribute, for artists to collaborate, for community members to co-create. Empowerment? Humans empower each other.

Participatory 20

Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. We are working very closely with V.S.

India 102

India NGO Network Exercise 102

CauseVox

MARCH 13, 2024

Rooted in values such as equity, collaboration, resiliency, empowerment, and community, Spur Local actively promotes visibility, stimulates discussions, and serves as a catalyst for positive change in the region. Over the past two decades, Spur Local has evolved into the largest nonprofit capacity builder in the region.

Local 78

Local Campaign Raise Story 78

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. We work with about 60,000 refugees from across the continent. Can you talk about how that works, and what the pros and cons of that process are?

Interview 40

Interview Sudan Africa Congo 40

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

What we do here in Oakland, and throughout the Bay Area, is we work with inner city companies that not only have a scalable model, but also have a social responsibility aspect built into their business model. We are pretty selective on the companies that we work with, and because we offer it for free is we are pretty limited on our capacity.

Oakland 61

Oakland San Francisco Companies Business 61

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. Melinda Kramer: Women's Global Green Action Network is an international organization that is linking and empowering women working in environmental sustainability around the world. We do it in a number of ways.

Green 40

Green Global Action Network 40

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2022

Making Decent Work a Reality for Adults and Youth. Governments should embrace internationally recognised fundamental rights at work including ending forced labour, discrimination at work, respecting workers’ right to freely choose representation and ensuring safe and healthy working conditions.

Global 52

Global United States Policy International 52

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Redefining Philanthropy - Dwayne Rice Build a Salesforce application to facilitate a culture of philanthropy around education reform by providing a platform to track constituent engagement to lead people up the engagement ladder. These consultants work in silos, often unaware of how their work might be affected by each other.

Ideas 94

Ideas North Carolina Map Children 94

Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

We choose themes and venues in collaboration with a community partner. Check it out if you’re curious about choosing a strong theme, working with a collaborator, designing a portable structure, or tips for implementation. What does this look like? People are invited to bring something on topic to share.

Museum 49

Museum Grant Lesson History 49

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

And I work here at Ella Baker Center. It's really an honor to be working here doing some amazing work with a new program, Reclaim the Future. He came and talked about affirmative action, we became friends at that point, and started to learn about the different work that we were each doing.

Arts 40

Arts Podcast Action Interview 40