Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Letting grantees lead: What we’re learning from the BUILD evaluation. Empowering Communities: Participatory Grantmakers Say We Must Go beyond Feedback. The Power of Dialogue about Nonprofit Data and Evaluation. Evaluating a Culture.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 14, 2021

These program practices include needs assessment, decision-making, program implementation, and evaluation. Involving beneficiaries can save organizations money on projects by utilizing untapped beneficiary talent, according to an article from Public Administration and Development. Use participatory evaluation , as Rabinowitz suggests.

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Program New York City Strategy Case Study 52

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

It provides critical data for nonprofit leaders, board members and funders to understand the effectiveness of organizations in serving their missions. According to the Center for Evaluation Innovation’s “Lab for Learning” initiative , “make thinking visible” to cultivate a learning culture. Actively evaluate PM processes and metrics.

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Measure Create Arizona Participatory 52

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

In its first five years, Our Museum yielded real change at twelve diverse UK organizations. Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. No Longer Us and Them describes organizations that have changed dramatically, from top to bottom and across program areas.

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Museum Participatory Resource Place 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

" Taking it a little deeper, organizations should not go in the other direction - and be strategic in friending people. Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century."

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Participatory Teen Vlog Mashup 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion.

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Learning Classroom Classes Student 84

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Community Organizing. Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). Innovation / Generating New Ideas. Making Decisions and Getting Consensus. Strategic Dialogue. Organizational Development.

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Facilitation Technique Chart Method 121

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

I thought I’d take this opportunity to organize some of those posts into a resource list. Participatory Facilitation Techniques. Evaluation. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training. Instructional Design. 8 Tips for Designing Powerful Nonprofit Training Workshops. Getting Past Resistance. Facilitating With Sticky Notes.

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Training Train San Jose Instructional Design 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Is the evaluation of your program something management needs to assess the performance of your organization as a whole? Measurement springs from many different motivations. Are you required to measure?

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Evaluation Measure Seattle Lesson 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

What is the best way for a non-profit organization to engage the audience? How can we turn our fans that we engage with on social media into financial supporters of our organization? Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. How can we get people to talk to us? Or just keep your ears open.

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Social Media Headline Media Social 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My sessions were integrated into the various leadership, visioning process for women’s rights, curriculum development, and evaluation methods modules throughout the week as networked and social media skills were not the main focus. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. I like to use a combined method.

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Story Data Analysis Measure 121

NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

What is your organization''s mission? I also did an evaluation of all of our sites to help assess whether or not we are meeting our users'' needs and if any simple improvements could be made to improve their overall user experience. Can you describe your experience at the 14LCS?

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Donation Impact Share NTEN 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

Code for America , one of the organizations that we worked with, is already implementing outcome assessments. It’s important to engage your full team, especially tech development staff, early in evaluation planning to ensure that systems are in place to capture the data you’ll need to track progress and assess results.

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Metrics Method Tech Government 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach.

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Arts Social Media Examples Artist 74

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Our programs bond our collaborators by closely co-creating programs with community organizations which strengthens their individual internal connections and their relationship to the MAH. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Museum Program Participatory Community 49

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning – from Karcsig. Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation , about participatory learning agendas. I like to use a combined method.

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Story Data Analysis Structure 74

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I can't say that any one experience--working on a collage with other visitors, swinging on a hammock, discovering a participatory display for pocket artifacts in the bathroom--directly contributed to increased attendance and giving. They all have in concert, and they build on each other.

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Audience Museum Participatory History 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Brand and reputation monitoring for a nonprofit or foundation. Crisis communication strategy.

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Social Media Channel Data Media 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Within a system are stakeholders that can include individuals, organizations, networks of organizations, the range of their actions, their ways of thinking vis-à-vis the issue, and the natural and man-created environmental factors that influence the system. Key is a participatory development process.

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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

This is a huge opportunity that will help make it even easier for third parties to create valuable applications to aggregate, organize, and visualize government data. This will take time and effort, organizations should promote their progress so far and communicate to the public the steps they are taking.

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Government Open Data API 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. Over the past twenty years, the Brainerd Foundation has invested nearly $50 million in organizations working to protect the environment in the Northwest. Participants were encouraged to focus on quantity of ideas and not to self-edit.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The getting started tips include: Assess your organization's appetite for innovation. The topics include: Control and Transparency: How comfortable is the foundation with the participatory nature of Web 2.0 Evaluation and Measurement: How will foundation asses and evaluate the impact of sucess of their online communications efforts?

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Social Media Foundation Report Media 50

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

So consider this just the first of many posts related to issues of cultural inclusion, evaluation, and impact. We have some strategies for tackling this: convening diverse content advisors, incorporating anti-bias educational approaches in our design, developing participatory opportunities for visitors to connect past to present.

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Measure Arts People Museum 47

Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. In condensed text version, here are my three steps to being a great multi-platform organization: Listen to and understand what your visitors/users need. watch the video.

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Slides Process Video Open 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. It's very easy to sign up and judge. What makes Click special?

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Museum Participatory Artist Arts 24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Every once in a while I come across a project I wish I could have included in The Participatory Museum. an exhibition produced with schoolchildren at the Wallace Collection in London, is a lovely example of co-creation that demonstrates the multiple benefits of inviting audience members to act as partners in arts organizations.

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Children Museum Create Project 46

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Unsurprisingly, some of my favorite museums are small, funky places run by iconoclasts—but that’s not useful to most professionals who work for organizations in which they have little control over size or leadership matters. There are several good resources on evaluating participation. It’s nice to have both.

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Project Museum Teen North Carolina 22

NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. Learn more about the Net2 Challenge Process here.

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Mobile Malawi Netsquared San Jose 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Most of the projects with these programs were carried out collaboratively; so I had a chance to see how different kinds of organizations, from grassroots to national, operate. I interviewed ten online educators in five countries about how they planned and organized collaborative learning activities. Evaluate it!

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Arts Community Online Intergenerational 50

Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. They are akin to local news organizations and charities. Funders like the NSF have encouraged science centers in particular to share their techniques and evaluations, which is fabulous but also leads to rampant and sometimes unthinking imitation.

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Support Museum St. Louis NSF 41

Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. I attribute this to the relative specificity of copy editing (and a much more organized process ). What did they do?

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 32

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. To me, the backlash against participatory and community-centered experiences is not surprising.

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Participatory Museum Arts History 53