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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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All too frequently, the grantmaker alone is determining, leading, and benefiting from MEL processes with no input or collaboration from the people, organizations or community impacted. The practice of participatory evaluation aims to disrupt power dynamics, and to generate knowledge as a result of collaboration.

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Rethinking Community Advisory Boards: the Story of C3

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So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. Our work would become more relevant, our collaborations more timely, our network more diverse. Our topics are broad, including Creative Spaces, Youth Empowerment, and Economic Opportunity.

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Nonprofit Organizational Culture Eats Big Data for Lunch

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Natural Language Processing. Culture of Sharing: There is a willingness to share data and collaborate to achieve better results and a disdain for creating or maintaining data silos. Culture of Agile: There is empowerment of people to interact and collaborate that allows them to adapt and respond to a changing environment.

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How to Prevent Burnout at Your Nonprofit, From the Experts

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Join Krista, Libby, Lisa and many more inspirational speakers at the Collaborative: Virtual Sessions for sessions dedicated to nonprofit wellbeing and resilience. Employees now have more access to stress management resources and empowerment to seek the support they need on an individual level. Get Registered Now for Free.

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Our Museum: Extraordinary Resources on How Museums and Galleries Become Participatory Places

Museum 2.0

And in several cases, the projects constituted "empowerment lite" for participants rather than true collaboration, co-creation, or transformation. Five years later, project director Dr. Piotr Bienkowski's final report for Our Museum tells a different story. As this video points out, critics make you swear.

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Future of Volunteering from the Volunteer Canada Perspective

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Companies like First West Credit Union are focusing on amplifying these employee acts of kindness by telling their stories. At Volunteer Canada we love to see companies expanding their employee community engagement programs (note our use of language…) to supporting the many ways employees can contribute to a better world.

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The 45 Social by Social Propositions

Amy Sample Ward

Over the last few months, I’ve been collaborating with Andy Gibson and David Wilcox , and Clive Holtham and Nigel Courtney from Cass Business School, on a book about using new technologies for social benefit projects. Empowerment is unconditional. People make technology work. Keep it messy. Be a good host. Keep your powder dry.

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