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Participatory Grantmaking: I’m in! Now what?

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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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Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do with It?

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Lots of grantmakers are intrigued by participatory grantmaking. Participatory grantmaking invites to decision-making tables people who have historically been excluded. Why Would a Grantmaker Choose a Participatory Grantmaking Approach? So, what does participatory grantmaking look like in practice? Those at the top decide.

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Making Museum Tours Participatory: A Model from the Wing Luke Asian Museum

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The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. and then recounted some related fact or history. I believe that the points above could be applicable to any tour guide in any museum.

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What are the most effective ways Nonprofits/Foundations can use Twitter #hashtags?

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A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. One of the most frequent applications has been to use them at events and conferences. blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation.

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Guest Post by Geoff Livingston: Creating Movements

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Networks, groups, applications, conversations, meet-ups, T-shirts, donations, volunteer events and political actions receive community wide support and in many cases are created by the community itself. I began our talk today with my personal nonprofit history. Tweet conversations about you. The movement is not strong enough.

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5 Advantages of Grants Management Software

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From applications to reviews to reporting, there are a lot of moving parts to a funding program. With grant applications that automatically populate your grants management system, the information flows seamlessly without manual entry. The person who coined the term “cat herding” may have been a grants manager.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. Del.icio.us the work of copyright holders. Enterprise 2.0

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