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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

A Shared and Flexible Understanding of Impact As practitioners of and advocates for participatory philanthropy, we believe there’s a better way. Like many other activities in participatory philanthropy, this approach considers the process to be as important as the outcomes. It promotes mutuality instead of extraction.

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The community approach to problem solving

Candid

Participatory grantmaking [i] is no longer new. To be clear, participatory grantmaking has never been new. One of the first projects I was assigned to after joining Candid (then Foundation Center) was the guide on participatory grantmaking, now a seminal work in the growing body of literature on participatory grantmaking.

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Creating A Global Network of Capacity Builders for Social Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action.

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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

sgEngage

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. Although data can be used in advocacy and policy change processes, even the most rigorous data cannot achieve policy change without shifts in our understandings and the self and collective narratives around pressing issues.

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Postcards as a Call to Action: A Powerful, Political Participatory Experience at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum

Museum 2.0

The best participatory projects are useful. The participatory activity in question is part of the new Unfinished Business gallery, a room in which the museum engages with a contemporary issue related to the passion and work of Jane Addams and the historic Hull-House activist residents. It is this station that grabbed my attention.

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Participatory Campaigns: The Hold A Sign Meme

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

advocacy and leveraging the social community there: Starbucks Campaign. Consumer-solicited media (CSM): "Participatory media" -- that's what the flickr contests above are! There was also a flickr component that I learned about this from the wonderful Heather Gardner-Madras , who like me, is a flickr fan.

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Unassuming Superheroes Wanted: Join The Art of Relevance Advocacy Team

Museum 2.0

My last book, The Participatory Museum , did well. Join The Art of Relevance Advocacy Team / Superhero Network * indicates required Email Address * First Name * Last Name I think I could help by. This post is for those of you who want to read the book. and then do a little bit more. I believe The Art of Relevance can go further.

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