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The ongoing revolution in philanthropy: An open-ended reading list

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Empowering Communities: Participatory Grantmakers Say We Must Go beyond Feedback. As Distrust in Big Philanthropy Grows, Here’s How Leading Foundations Are Demonstrating Their Value. Survey: Nonprofits Struggle with Demonstrating Outcomes.

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Do Capacity Building Programs Help Nonprofits Achieve Better Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We believe that any measurement of the impact of investment in strong organizations should ultimately come back to demonstrating the additional impact organizations are able to achieve after receiving this kind of support. The Forgotten Roots of Capacity Development in the Movement for Ownership and Empowerment.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Tech Training Internationally – Tips for Working with Interpreters

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment. It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

HOW (slides 24-42) There are three “tracks” to our theory of change: individual empowerment, social bonding, and social bridging. Let’s start with empowerment. Empowerment is the “individual” side of our theory of change. We’re making our focus on community more overt, tangible, and measurable.

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Guest Post by Nora Grant: Lessons from A Year of Pop Up Museums

Museum 2.0

Furthermore, open frames enable participants to physically touch exhibited content while demonstrating that the object still deserves special recognition. But like the blank labels or empty frames we leave out on the table, pop up museums will continue to invite and support public conversation, personal empowerment, and open-ended narratives.

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