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Amplifying Female Voices: Strategies for Equitable and Inclusive Grantmaking

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Like many diversity efforts, including women’s voices in grantmaking decisions—particularly women from historically marginalized groups—doesn’t often happen organically. The first step to creating more inclusive grantmaking is understanding whose voice is being lost. Artwork by Toya Beacham See Women and Girls. Intentionally.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. You can download and read the full version of my thesis here. The value of participatory experiences is epitomized in FIGMENT , a free, creative, participatory, non-profit, community art event. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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10 Nonprofit Books from 2010

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I first met Mary in 2005 through my connection with the Global Voices community and can say that Mary is among the most knowledgeable and experienced digital activists in the world. The book is available on Amazon or as a free download. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon. You can pick up a copy here.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

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Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania.

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