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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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Spotlight: The Forum One Design Team

Forum One

Design can feel very personal and often provokes strong opinions—that’s a good thing! Using audience research and even participatory design, where we engage end-users in early-stage design, we help organizations break out of their own internal ways of communicating. This begins with all the stakeholders in a particular project.

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How to Keep Your Virtual Meetings on Track, Inclusive, and Engaging

Top Nonprofits

Each student signed in to the collaborative Google document to indicate that they were in attendance. Collaborative technology is incredible. It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. So I started using collaborative Google documents.

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Designing for Nonprofits: Our Commentary + Experience

Media Cause

The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. It is a truly collaborative effort, and rather than us being design or marketing experts coming to “help” everyone, we become co-collaborators of developing solutions together. . What would the structure be like?

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Put Down the Clipboard:Visitor Feedback as Participatory Activity

Museum 2.0

Stacey has been collaborating with local artists to produce a series of content-rich events that invite visitors to participate in a range of hands-on activities. The events are informal, personal, and fun, but our feedback mechanism--onsite and post-event surveys--not so much. Loved" and "Made" were the most popular.

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals To Begin 2018 with Clarity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In early January, I read through the journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of personal and professional fulfillment? This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions.