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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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All too frequently, the grantmaker alone is determining, leading, and benefiting from MEL processes with no input or collaboration from the people, organizations or community impacted. A Shared and Flexible Understanding of Impact As practitioners of and advocates for participatory philanthropy, we believe there’s a better way.

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Spotlight: The Forum One Design Team

Forum One

Mission-driven organizations rely on Forum One to bring their ideas to life through designs that inform and inspire action. Using audience research and even participatory design, where we engage end-users in early-stage design, we help organizations break out of their own internal ways of communicating. Create visuals that engage.

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Explore Impact Leadership at NTEN’s Leading Change Summit: Free Registration Giveaway

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As you can see from the schedule overview , this is more of a participatory event versus the traditional conference with powerpoints and panelists. The event will end with an “ Idea Accelerator ” where participants will have an opportunity to develop and pitch an actionable idea for feedback and funding.

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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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Participatory Design Vs. Design for Participation: Exploring the Difference

Museum 2.0

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? The exhibit is dynamic and changes somewhat in response to visitors' actions. But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." The exhibit opens.

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Kids, Coercion, and Co-Design

Museum 2.0

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space.

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Traveling Couches and other Emergent Surprises Courtesy of an Open Platform

Museum 2.0

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. Here's a picture of it in action. Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see. Evergreen Cemetery Board Game.