Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

My colleagues, Heather McLeod Grant and Adene Sacks, have just published a new workbook called “ Leading Systems Change.” That’s why I’ve keep a good list of meeting facilitation playbooks such as Leading Systems Change handy for inspiration. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Charity Village

JULY 20, 2023

Eligible projects will help communities mitigate and/or adapt to climate change, focusing on innovative, participatory, equitable, and multisolving approaches. As part of the Community Climate Transitions Innovation Fund, Tamarack Institute is offering funding for six climate-related projects in communities across Canada.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

Getting Closer to Your Community with Participatory Grantmaking Nonprofit organizations such as Maine Initiatives have been using Participatory Grantmaking for years to distribute the decision-making power to people closest to the problem. There are several benefits to adding participatory grantmaking to your funding programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

.” 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. Funder misalignment on movement needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

I’m giving away a free registration to NTEN’s Leading Social Change Summit. NTEN is hosting the “ Leading Change Summit ” in San Francisco from September 3-6th. What great about this conference is that we will have creative immersion and change to “sleep on our ideas.”

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is really inspiring to see philanthropic and nonprofit professional engaging in public conversations about these challenges, and even more inspiring to see them taking action to create positive changes. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. Philanthropy for change, not charity. Bay Area Equity Atlas.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

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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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

As a result, not enough funding is flowing to climate change efforts and even less of it for reducing harm to communities most impacted by the climate crisis. . It also explains how the McKnight Foundation is connecting its participatory democracy work with climate justice efforts in historically marginalized communities. .

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

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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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

I’m so excited to see a Mobile Tech 4 Change event coming to London - but super disappointed I can’t be here to participate (I’ll be at N2Y4 Mobile Challenge Conference in San Jose). If you are interested in mobile technology and its application for social change projects, this is definitely an event to check out.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I feel lucky to be a small part of that change. That said, there are a couple big things I got wrong in the book - or at least, that I''ve changed my perspective on since writing it. Humans empower each other. Make space for each other.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

Collaborate through field work and participatory practice. Participatory practice includes the most common strategies: surveys, community meetings, focus groups and informant interviews (Woodford & Preston, 2011). When the organization is able to provide the community with what they need, the program’s success rate will increase.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. In its first five years, Our Museum yielded real change at twelve diverse UK organizations. Most major change doesn't happen when things are going well.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2024

Monitor changes in both philanthropy and technology so you can determine what makes the most sense for your organization and grantees. Even if your organization isn’t ready for a full participatory approach to your grantmaking, for example, understand the core tenets so you can address questions and get feedback from grantees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Photo by Trav Williams.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

To learn more about knowledge work and its role in grantmaking, check out the post Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work is Core to Equitable Change. However, datamaking has added power because it can beused to deepen strategic social processes of foundation-funded change.

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Candid

JULY 28, 2022

Since the launch, both Candid and NAP have gone through several organization changes, so it was a nice opportunity to connect with new NAP colleagues. . Conferences are great places for connection and joint learning, but the wealth of rich, meaningful information can sometimes be overwhelming.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Stakeholder involvement will drastically improve the final plan and create a culture of participatory decision-making. If there are significant changes in organizational direction the plan should be updated with new goals and objectives and include a reason for the change. Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." " He describes what Ian observed what happened with his youth audience. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. Are you making that shift in your thinking about participatory project design?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

She went on to say less predictable: “ People think that social change organizations should go slow and carefully. They say,move fast and break things should not be applied to social change. She noted that you want your data to be representative of real people. Well, screw that. We should move the fastest. ” .

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. Too often, cultural institutions design participatory projects that require visitors to learn new tools or make sacrifices to contribute. Tags: design participatory museum. Or, so I thought.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Since the theme this year was “Change Making,” I taught a workshop on self-care for change makers based on my forthcoming book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , co-authored with Aliza Sherman. Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? The exhibit is dynamic and changes somewhat in response to visitors' actions. But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." The exhibit opens.

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sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

Foundations and grantmaking organizations are trying to untangle some of the world’s messiest problems: homelessness, food insecurity, climate change, and the rights of people who are often overlooked, to name a few. Not only are the issues multifaceted and overlapping, but they can also change based on location.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

The Resource Alliance has been presenting the NGO Awards in Thailand, India and Vietnam for 10 years, but 2017 marked a substantial change in the award program’s focus and delivery. I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? It just creates a virtual outpost for change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

I'm reminded of the March of Dimes - flickr contest - that asked people to photograph where they kept their change because a handful of change is what preemie weighs at birth. Consumer-solicited media (CSM): "Participatory media" -- that's what the flickr contests above are! Not sure if this includes a cash prize.

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Typically, it takes someone seeing a situation that needs to change and doing the work to change it. Participatory grantmaking has been a big part of the Boston’s Women’s Fund since its founding. Because when you are focused on social change, the work you do won’t always show up annually. Will something go wrong?

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 14, 2021

However, after looking at the benefits that might arise, leaders in the sector may change their mind. Let us take a look at some of the common obstacles and see how investing in beneficiaries could change that perspective. Use participatory evaluation , as Rabinowitz suggests. Obstacle 1: “We have no money.”.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Homogenous nonprofit board compensation results in blind spots, but the change is still slow to come. Leaders should also engage in participatory grantseeking. Unsurprisingly, Boardsource’s 2017 study found that 84% of board members were Caucasian/White, 8% were African American/Black, 5% Hispanic/Latino, and 3% Asian.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2013

Earlier this year, I was fascinated to read the account of a participatory project at the Morrison County Historical Society in Minnesota, in which community members were invited to write essays about “what’s it like” to have various life experiences in the County. And then there was the anonymous letter.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Use performance measurements sensitive enough to detect gradual changes so that small scale initiatives can be informative. Use participatory processes to define metrics and methods of data collection. At the same time, remain aware that data will fluctuate before trends and causal relationships can truly emerge over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

My New Year’s rituals help me let go of things in my professional work that can open the door to positive change and growth. These rituals also help me set-up systems for consistent reflection and positive habit change throughout the new year. I have discovered first-hand the benefits of incorporating rituals into the way I work.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

A strong participatory process is not a loosey-goosey, open the doors and do whatever strategy. It''s not a question of the participatory process being unidirectional, something that we are doing for you the community. design inclusion institutional change participatory museum' It''s serious. Invested at all levels.

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