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Participatory Grantmaking: I’m in! Now what?

sgEngage

You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. Not sure if participatory grantmaking is for you or maybe you need a refresher on what it is? Is this you?

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How can nonprofits and funders create mutually agreeable performance measures?

ASU Lodestar Center

To harness the full potential of performance measurement, funders and nonprofits must join together to co-create mutually beneficial methods and metrics. Use participatory processes to define metrics and methods of data collection. Evaluate and report on the efficacy of methods and measures themselves, not just results.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. The purpose of my thesis was two-fold: To research and analyze community and civic engagement practices, methods, theories and examples in other museum programs. This can be accomplished through a variety of feedback methods conducted both inside and outside the museum.

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A Decade of Museums and Museum Work

Museum 2.0

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

The participatory radio campaign approach was used to enhance existing systems, not add new content or processes to the farm radio stations. A more general success for Freedom Fone is the ability to provide an alternative, mobile-based medium for news and information. The group used similar sounding numbers for each of the networks.

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Taking Local Currency Digital: A New Experiment Emerges

Non Profit Quarterly

Even before the pandemic, the popularity of digital payment methods had been steadily rising. and Humanity Cash , a tech venture focused on alternative digital currencies. Given this history, it is unsurprising that interest in alternative currency was rekindled in the wake of the Great Recession. Why Go Digital?

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. We had surveyed an alternative high school and half the kids had said, “There’s no adult that I can talk to but I need to talk to somebody.” How do we do this well? That was one really fun example. .