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Participatory Grantmaking: I’m in! Now what?

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You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. But it is a different way of thinking for most grantmakers, so it can be difficult to know where to start. Is this you?

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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We all want to know whether our work makes a difference. We offer some practical tips, some examples of funders doing this work, and some resources. A Shared and Flexible Understanding of Impact As practitioners of and advocates for participatory philanthropy, we believe there’s a better way.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also had an opportunity to attend a couple of sessions that used participatory facilitation techniques. If you are new to participatory facilitation techniques, use the Spectagram as an opener and use it to better understand skill levels in the room. Here’s what I learned. Spectragram. Next, try provocative statements.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Digital Nonprofit: A Participatory Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. The assessment helps nonprofits look at eight different areas: Technology, Content, Channels/Devices, Audiences, Analytics, User Experience, and Governance. It is also used in education, although it is called something different, “ The Human Continuum.”.

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4 Ways Funders Can Help Grant Writers Submit a Great Application

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They parse the grant documentation to understand if their organization is a good fit, they gather information from throughout the organization, and they mold it into an engaging story about the important work the organization is doing. Allow Space for Collaboration on the Application Grant writers rarely work in a vacuum.

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Great Participatory Processes are Open, Discoverable, and Unequal

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Experienced poets worked hard to bring their best to the stage, and they got honest feedback from a motley gang of peers and spectators. Others lavished praise so indiscriminately that poets were never challenged to improve or bring forward new work. Some were so exclusive that it was impossible to feel welcome as a newcomer.

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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

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Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.