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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. Empowering Communities: Participatory Grantmakers Say We Must Go beyond Feedback. Lessons Learned from Two Decades in Philanthropy. Tools: Reflective structured dialogue. Community-based participatory research. contact-form].

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

Museum 2.0

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.

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What Is a Story and Why You Need To Tell Them

The Storytelling Non-profit

It’s participatory. Now, before I lose you to the in-the-weeds grammar lesson, let me tell you why this distinction is important. How to Create Your Non-Profit's Annual Story Strategy Non-Profit Storytelling: Using the Right Story Structure. That means it’s what we are doing. Whereas “story” is a noun.

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How to Keep Your Virtual Meetings on Track, Inclusive, and Engaging

Top Nonprofits

It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. Not surprisingly, their perception was that the conversation had been poorly facilitated and had no structure! That’s the lesson here. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts.

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TechSoup Global Summit Day 1: Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. I’ve been involved with TechSoup/Netsquared Network since its inception back six years ago and so it is nice to be part of the narrative arc.

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Frameworks and Lessons from the Public Participation in Science Research Report

Museum 2.0

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Designing for Nonprofits: Our Commentary + Experience

Media Cause

This recent article from AIGA, “ Small Budgets, Tight Deadlines, Important Work: Lessons all designers can learn from working with nonprofits ,” was one of those instances. The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. What would the structure be like?

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