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Getting from “no” to “yes” for climate justice

Candid

Meanwhile, the planet burns and many already vulnerable communities are displaced. 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. . In essence it’s a tiny slice of a tiny slice. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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New (Free) E-Book: Leading Systems Change Will Supercharge Your Facilitation Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

Museum 2.0

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). Participatory processes often (and sometimes unintentionally) restructure the product. That''s expected.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Making Accommodations In Workshops

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Co-Act is a unique organization, a hub for accelerating collaborative action in Southeast Michigan’s nonprofit community. They have built an authentic community through cultivated conversations and events designed to build trust, deepen relationships and set the stage for collective impact. I made this part of the instructions.

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12 Ways We Made our Santa Cruz Collects Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory. We had some money.

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What Is a Story and Why You Need To Tell Them

The Storytelling Non-profit

A narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale. It’s participatory. Much of the work that non-profits are doing is not necessarily relatable to the average community member or supporter. That means it’s what we are doing.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Finding Inspiration and New Ideas for Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have get in the way of the instructional flow later on. There are usually two aspects of this.