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

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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? Those at the top decide.

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How can the strategic planning process promote effective nonprofit decision-making?

ASU Lodestar Center

Stakeholder involvement will drastically improve the final plan and create a culture of participatory decision-making. There also needs to be a free flow of ideas in safe, nonjudgmental environments. There is no benefit to discounting any individual or group from participating in the planning process. Diversity of opinion.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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." Some argue that young people acquire these key skills by interacting with popular culture. vlogging, and podcasting). .

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New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits To Improve Resilience in 2021

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Organizational resilience is about your organization’s work culture, specifically creating a positive one that includes being supportive, kind, and emphasizing meaningful work. In 2020, it was about adapting participatory processes to the virtual, remote environment.

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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? The other three are cultural, and I'm not sure how accurate they are.

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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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Guest Post: Restoration Artwork

Museum 2.0

Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. They maintain a creative autonomy and intimate relation with the museum and its collection that empowers them to play with and transform the visual environment.

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