Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

A philanthropy insider once shared during a presentation that foundations develop guidelines so they know to whom to say “no.” Meanwhile, the planet burns and many already vulnerable communities are displaced. Though it sounded cynical and harsh, it also rang true. In essence it’s a tiny slice of a tiny slice.

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Guidelines Participatory Case Study Philanthropy 105

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

Why should a nonprofit collaborate with their community or stakeholders? For nonprofit organizations, this means increased program outcomes leading to community awareness, funding from donors or grants, and increased employee morale. By listening to the community and responding to their needs, nonprofits can garner trust.

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Collaboration North Carolina Effective Participatory 98

Candid

JULY 28, 2022

Candid and NAP have been working together since 2018, launching the Investing in Native Communities website in 2019 to highlight the little investment by private philanthropy going to Native organizations. I was also excited to finally meet colleagues at NAP in person for the first time.

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Reflection Philanthropy Participatory Culture 111

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

I offered to send my friend and colleague a list of key articles and books about this revolution, and it now occurs to me that I can share this list with everyone who is interested. It’s Time For Philanthropic Billionaires To Share Power. Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

But if you want to hear them, you have to play them yourself--or check out hundreds of interpretations shared by musicians on the Song Reader website. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Participatory Arts Music Learning 52

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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Issue Resource New Mexico Mexico 98

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

This morning I had the great pleasure and honor to present at Amplified Leicester about Community-Driven Social Impact, and run a short strategy-building workshop. They are also hoping to learn from and document their experiences to share as a model with the larger global community looking to do something similar. Presentation.

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Impact Community Social Phoenix 123

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. Existing research identifies gaps in the ways in which community engagement is measured. Nonprofit organizations can benefit from this working model as it can be a useful tool in achieving a participatory culture.

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Measure Community Organization Arizona 40

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

Some people want an outcome-oriented training (as opposed to a community co-created summer camp). This year, to address these issues, we're experimenting with hosting two camps instead of one: COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION BOOTCAMP , June 7-8, 2018. Map your community’s assets and needs and how they align with your goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

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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Facilitation Skills System Change 86

NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to help support the NTEN Community Challenge , which helped to enhance NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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Donation Impact Share NTEN 64

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. A black box with people crowded around, talking and sharing and making and doing. Build community.

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities.

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Participatory Museum History International 44

Candid

JULY 5, 2022

private and community foundations to understand recent giving trends and forecast where giving is headed. [ A combination of community needs and asset growth appeared to fuel increases in giving. . We also asked funders to share what trends, in or beyond philanthropy and the social sector, they are paying attention to.

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Foundation Giving Change Survey 105

Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

Yesterday, I learned about the Silk Mill, a British historic site that is going through a dramatic community-driven reinvention. In the fall of 2013, they launched Re:Make , an ambitious project to redevelop the museum, live, on the floor, with a mix of staff, guest artists, and community members. It''s a shared space and process.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2022

Here we share some top-level takeaways from our research. . Some foundations that lacked experience in local giving began investing more in communities, while others engaged in cross-border giving to show European solidarity. One of them said: “As the rich get vaccinated, the poor remain exposed to the virus.

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Europe Case Study Fund Practice 98

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. The result, Our Museum , is an extraordinary funding program with a focus on community participation. didn't mince words. Here are my three top takeaways.

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sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s where participatory grantmaking comes in. By giving your community an active role in your grantmaking process, you get a better understanding of their needs, build stronger relationships, and have a more direct impact. What is Participatory Grantmaking? And several ways not to do it.

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Participatory Trend Community Grant 69

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

This is the question I ask myself anytime I'm working on something with a participatory intent. How can people--staff, volunteers, community members--help make this project better? But even developing that open call was a participatory process: Wes worked with other staff to think through how the residencies could work.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Since then, Stacey has become an indispensable member of our staff, leading our community programs and inspiring us to think in new ways about how we can build social capital in our community. I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you.

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Museum Program Participatory Community 49

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. This project wove together many different participatory threads. We co-created it from start to finish with community partners. Short story: we learned a lot.

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Issue Childhood Community Create 45

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). The institution is community-funded, staffed, and designed. a "wedding worthy" community hall). a "wedding worthy" community hall). 5'11", 6'1", etc.

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Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

We utilize datamaking as part of shared meaning making. Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. The team included the director, board chair, administrative marketing and communication staff and a community engagement consultant.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 96

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

Imagine the most community-based science center possible. Imagine it in a poor, immigrant farmworker community. In a Community Science Workshop. A couple months ago, I visited a Community Science Workshop for the first time in Watsonville, CA. Can you give me the overview of Community Science Workshops? It thrives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." 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."

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Monique Couvson, President and CEO for Grantmakers for Girls of Color , Natanja Craig-Oquendo, Executive Director of the Boston Women’s Fund , and Marsha Morgan, Board Advisory Member of the Community Investment Network and Black Women Give Back honoree. It requires us to cede power and say, ‘You know this community.

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Voice Strategy Mississippi Boston 66

The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Unleash Crowdfunding Potential: Transform Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Game In the challenging nonprofit community, smaller organizations often struggle with securing adequate funds to execute their mission. A succinct cause will generate wider sharing and provoke more donations. in 2020 alone.

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Game Fundraising Campaign Generation 59

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Share logic models to increase dialogue and understand the theories and assumptions that underlie programs and investment decisions. Share not only your organization’s work, but how and what has been learned so far. Use participatory processes to define metrics and methods of data collection. Tell the story of learning.

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Measure Create Arizona Participatory 52

Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

One finalist's pitch was: "We have buy-in from the community, we have rich networks on the ground, and we are building on pre-existing technologies." Empowering Marginalized Communities Using Technology. Dd's mission is "to empower marginalized communities to use technology to defend their rights."

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. I hope it opens up a broader conversation about the nuts and bolts of successful participatory projects. Now, after long last, the book is here! Tweet about it.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. The sheet gave people a lightweight tool to use in social interaction, to trade and share stamps.

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Reflection Community Museum Participatory 43

Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

This post was originally published on The Ross Collective ; it is being shared here with the author’s permission. I was reminded of this recently, at the first evening of the online course in Grant Proposal Writing: Our fifteen working adult students logged in to Zoom and were welcomed into our shared virtual classroom.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

took over the world, people were part of smaller online participatory communities called listservs. Yet even after all these years, many organizations still haven’t mastered how to use listservs in building successful and engaging online communities. Before Web 2.0 Remember them? Should they be moderated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

He shared how he built a global cross-sector movement to support sanitation in developing countries. He was hilarious as he was inspiring. I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques. I’ll share that in my next post!

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Philanthropy Cambodia Impact Learning 75

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

A few weeks ago, the MAH Director of Community Programs, Stacey Garcia, came to me with an idea. We have an intern, Kathryn, who emailed each participant individually to thank them for coming, shared their personal photo, and gave them the link to the rest of the photos. We got more feedback. Loved" and "Made" were the most popular.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

It’s participatory. Much of the work that non-profits are doing is not necessarily relatable to the average community member or supporter. Maybe you think of them is interchangeable terms and you wouldn’t be alone in that. However, and this is a big however, at its foundation “storytelling” is a verb.

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Story Storytelling Profit Participatory 89

Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

And you've decided that you want to integrate community feedback into the development process. Here are ten things I've learned about making these kinds of community input meetings successful. Bringing these different communities together in the same space might not have created safe space for the true issues of each group to emerge.

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