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

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In recent years, that model is being challenged. Lots of grantmakers are intrigued by participatory grantmaking. What matters most in this model are values–and one in particular: equity. Participatory grantmaking invites to decision-making tables people who have historically been excluded. Those at the top decide.

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Do Capacity Building Programs Help Nonprofits Achieve Better Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: My long-time colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director, Social Sector Accelerator, shares some thoughts about nonprofit capacity building programs based on extensive research. Her answer to the question about capacity building programs leading to better impact will surprise you.

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A look back at Issue Lab’s top philanthropic resources in 2022

Candid

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

Museum 2.0

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Fundraising as Participatory Practice: Myths, Realities, Possibilities

Museum 2.0

Development works when you are responsive to the donor's needs, not just presenting your own." But as a creative type who has recently taken on an executive role, I've been fascinated, shocked even, to learn that the folks in the development department have been singing the relationship chorus for so long.

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How can nonprofits and funders create mutually agreeable performance measures?

ASU Lodestar Center

Share logic models to increase dialogue and understand the theories and assumptions that underlie programs and investment decisions. Develop indicators to include learning as part of PM. Create organizational partnerships to build capacity and deeper understanding. Directly involve stakeholders in developing PM.

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E-Mediat: Networked Capacity Building in the Middle East

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. Build the capacity of these NGOs and CSOs to use new media effectively through mentoring and coaching.

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