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How can nonprofits and funders create mutually agreeable performance measures?

ASU Lodestar Center

This is a cultural shift that involves everyone; nonprofit leaders and staff, board members, volunteers, donors, foundation leaders, members of the public and others. According to the Center for Evaluation Innovation’s “Lab for Learning” initiative , “make thinking visible” to cultivate a learning culture.

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Fundraising as Participatory Practice: Myths, Realities, Possibilities

Museum 2.0

As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization. If fundraisers are so keen on relationships, why weren't they the first into social media and participatory projects on behalf of their organizations?

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#ThankYouWednesday After A Successful #GivingTuesday

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, because those of work in the social good sector know that giving is to become a habit or part of culture, it can’t be transactional. If you tweeted with the hashtag #IGiveBecause – you received a $20 gift card to donate to the charity of your choice on their site. I gave the gift of girls education.

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Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Echoing Green, Jobs for Change, Julia Cameron and 29 Gifts

Have Fun - Do Good

29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew! Interesting WorldChanging post, Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine. We Inspire Grant : One year of creative services to one U.S.

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Reimagining Museums with Latin America Leading the Way

Museum 2.0

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. We met in Medellin--a city where cultural institutions were instrumental in turning crime and fear into hope and beauty. Many delegates brought gifts. I first sensed the difference at the front door. There wasn't one.

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Participation through Gifting: Pass It On

Museum 2.0

donation to the universe, is a gift. We've all received (and hopefully given) gifts from strangers before--the woman who lets you go to the bathroom first, the family that hands you some carnival tickets on their way out and your way in. But a gift given from one person to another, however small, feels magical.

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A Birthday Request.

Museum 2.0

It's been an intense year - finishing the book and spending lots of time on the road working with cultural institutions. My book, The Participatory Museum , has done incredibly well so far, but there's a problem: the interactive components aren't working. I can't wait to "unwrap" the stories and ideas you gift me.