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

sgEngage

In philanthropy, unlike democracy, there is often no way for people to participate–to share what they think or to influence decisions. People impacted by the grants typically have no say in who gets the funding, for what, how much, and for how long. Lots of grantmakers are intrigued by participatory grantmaking. But what is it?

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Digital Nonprofit: A Participatory Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. A more participatory approach, and one that Allen Gunn uses, is to crowdsource provocative questions from participants. Have them self-organize into small groups of three or four people and use sticky notes to come up with some statements. We chose the latter.

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How you can foster sustainable innovation within your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

It must be articulate enough to measure progress against, inspiring enough to move people to action, and still broad enough to withstand the test of time. With this clarity of purpose, the nonprofit can focus on its culture. This is where participatory practice comes in to play.

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A look back at Issue Lab’s top philanthropic resources in 2022

Candid

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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Will They Play in Pyongyang? Culture, Geography, and Participation

Museum 2.0

I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. It is not culturally-determined. What may be culturally-determined, however, is HOW people want to participate. What may be culturally-determined, however, is HOW people want to participate. This is a human desire.

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Power in Solidarity: Reflections from AAPIP and NAP’s joint convening

Candid

I’ll be honest that I was a bit nervous—this was my first work trip in over two years, and I was not sure if I was ready to be jammed indoors with hundreds of people. Grounding our work in culture and values : Almost every session I attended brought attendees back to who we are and what values we hold.

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Great Participatory Processes are Open, Discoverable, and Unequal

Museum 2.0

He casts the whole idea of a great jazz jam in the context of the tragedy of the commons--like a poetry open mic, the jazz club is a community whose experience is fabulous or awful depending on the extent to the culture cultivates and enforces a healthy participatory process. The process is discoverable. The process is unequal.