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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

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. A Shared and Flexible Understanding of Impact As practitioners of and advocates for participatory philanthropy, we believe there’s a better way.

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

sgEngage

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? But what is it?

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Connecting the dots: Fighting for equity through a data partnership 

Candid

In an environment fraught with fear mongering and skeptical potential allies, Candid persisted in enhancing Demographics via Candid. Ultimately, it was Candid’s responsiveness and emphasis on relationship building that shifted my perspective from uncertainty to confidence. They built a public API and released a public data set.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? 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." each of various qualities.

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects?

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VRM: CRM's flip side

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

The goal of VRM is to improve the relationship between Demand and Supply by providing new and better ways for the former to relate to the latter. starts to point toward the more collaborative environments that are being termed "social media" these days. But what does a VRM/CRM collaboration look like?

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Four Unusual Professional Development Events in 2013

Museum 2.0

Ever wish for a low-cost, energizing professional development experience where you can work intensely with diverse colleagues in a risk-tolerant environment? We're working with participatory online artist Ze Frank on an exhibition at the MAH this winter that features the missions, creations, and explorations of his current web series, A Show.