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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. It is our hope, as funders, that financially resourcing a movement, an organization, or an individual can lead to positive change. Who manages the monitoring and evaluation?

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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Here’s what I learned. Spectragram.

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Prioritizing authentic connections through trust-based philanthropy 

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At the Honnold Foundation, we had been working in partnership with grassroots organizations for some time before we learned that there was a term for the kind of grantmaking we do: trust-based philanthropy (TBP). We realize that some of the most impactful work is being done by organizations HF might not know about.

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The ongoing revolution in philanthropy: An open-ended reading list

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

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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How grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients can do great things together with data and evaluation

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

It took Tech Networks of Networks almost two years to organize and implement a series of candid dialogues about data and evaluation for grantors and nonprofit grantees, and now it’s complete. What you see here are a few notes that reflect my individual experience. Meanwhile, I’d like to offer my own recommendations.

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How can nonprofits and funders create mutually agreeable performance measures?

ASU Lodestar Center

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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Our Museum: Extraordinary Resources on How Museums and Galleries Become Participatory Places

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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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