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Fundraising as Participatory Practice: Myths, Realities, Possibilities

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As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization. If fundraisers are so keen on relationships, why weren't they the first into social media and participatory projects on behalf of their organizations?

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Adventures in Participatory Audience Engagement at the Henry Art Gallery

Museum 2.0

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling

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Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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How can nonprofits and funders create mutually agreeable performance measures?

ASU Lodestar Center

Grants and gifts that commit multiple years of funding up front best enable learning to unfold. Use participatory processes to define metrics and methods of data collection. Actively evaluate PM processes and metrics. Measurements do not inherently have meaning; it is in interpretation where meaning is formed.

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Fifteen Random Things I've Learned about Design for Participation This Year

Museum 2.0

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. Different activities need different levels of materials to appear "open for business." Encourage gifting.

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10 Nonprofit Books from 2010

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, to close out the year, I thought I’d share this list of books with you, especially if Santa gave you an Amazon gift card. Digital Activism was one of several books I gave to my friends at iHub in Nairobi. Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change , Mary Joyce, Editor. 6. ShareThis! by Deanna Zandt.

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A Simple Outcome of Visitor Participation: Delight

Museum 2.0

Every day when I walk by our visitor comment board, I feel like I'm getting little gifts from visitors. As a researcher and activist for participation, I've sometimes downplayed the value of this charm because it seems like arsenal for professionals who claim participatory projects are frivolous. "Be But maybe it should be.

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