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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

You cannot have empowerment without participation: empowerment is not something we ‘do’ to other people, but is itself a participatory process that engages people in reflection and inquiry to understand the power they have, and to take action for change as they define it.”

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Our current model mainly depends on government and foundation support enabling us to provide free library services to members. We can do better!

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Rethinking Community Advisory Boards: the Story of C3

Museum 2.0

CON: can feel disconnected from the primary governance of the museum or can feel like a second-class board overall. Our topics are broad, including Creative Spaces, Youth Empowerment, and Economic Opportunity. We''re working on the internal and external language, always trying to be as clear and concrete as possible.

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The Nonprofit Common Data Model as an Equity Tool

NTEN

We don’t have a common language for collaboration between large software developers selling and donating their platforms to nonprofits. For nonprofit data, creating this language is becoming a self-organizing necessity in the same way that the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESGs) criteria are for the corporate world.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

It was wonderful to again be immersed in French culture and language. In Europe, the government has traditionally been the primary supporter of culture, a model very different to ours in the US. This was my first return visit to France since studying abroad in Montpellier twelve years ago.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

It was wonderful to again be immersed in French culture and language. In Europe, the government has traditionally been the primary supporter of culture, a model very different to ours in the US. This was my first return visit to France since studying abroad in Montpellier twelve years ago.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. They are gaining support from people in government, and politicians, and academicians, and business people, men, boys, women, girls. They have had arrested some very, very prominent people. They are making progress.