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Do Capacity Building Programs Help Nonprofits Achieve Better Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Forgotten Roots of Capacity Development in the Movement for Ownership and Empowerment. Few were accompanied by a strong statement about commitment to process that prioritizes ownership and empowerment. Most had weak measures of accountability especially towards clients, beneficiaries and community.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Tech Training Internationally – Tips for Working with Interpreters

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment. It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

HOW (slides 24-42) There are three “tracks” to our theory of change: individual empowerment, social bonding, and social bridging. Let’s start with empowerment. Empowerment is the “individual” side of our theory of change. As Jane Jacobs noted , "self-destruction of diversity is caused by success, not failure."

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Four Ways to Transform Organizational Culture to Advance Access, Equity, and Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Guided by an understanding that good listening is a first step towards authentic and meaningful participatory grantmaking, in 2019 CRUS began an intentional process to review its strategy and approach to grantmaking.