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5 Trends in Grantmaking that We Think Have Staying Power

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Free Resource Tips for Stewarding Responsively 3 Ways to Redefine Risk and Build Stronger Relationships with Your Grantees Download Now 3. There are several benefits to adding participatory grantmaking to your funding programs. Participatory grantmaking does require a mindset shift.

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New (Free) E-Book: Leading Systems Change Will Supercharge Your Facilitation Skills

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The facilitation methods are participatory. Check out their online platform, Luma Workplace , where you can read articles, download templates, and watch instructional videos. Liberating Structures: My colleagues Nancy White and Kyla Shawyer introduced me to this participatory approach to facilitation.

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The Nonprofit Book We’ve Been Waiting Four Years To Read Is Finally Here: New Power

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It downloads and it captures. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. This way of working requires a different, more participatory leadership model and mindset that Allison Fine and I first wrote about in The Networked Nonprofit and others have written about called “networked leadership.”

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Trends in Grantmaking: Bring Your Community into Your Decision-Making Through Participatory Grantmaking

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That’s where participatory grantmaking comes in. What is Participatory Grantmaking? Whether organizations start with a single grant program or incorporate a participatory approach across all their funding, there are a variety of ways to practice participatory grantmaking. And several ways not to do it.

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New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits To Improve Resilience in 2021

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Here are some rituals that I have consistently used over the past few decades: Review the Past Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead.

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Want to Co-Create an Exhibition on a Hot Issue? Introducing the Community Issue Exhibition Toolkit

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You can download it for free right now. This project wove together many different participatory threads. You can now download the Community Issue Exhibition Toolkit , a guide to this co-creation process. Short story: we learned a lot. We wrote a toolkit about our process. What did we learn? There were over 100 partners.

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

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Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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