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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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Our intention is to understand whether grants have had the impact we envisioned. FRIDA’s Strategic MEL Framework is our attempt to ‘queer’ (challenge + change) the language, structures, and tools normally used to think about monitoring and evaluating programming, development outcomes and resource accountability.

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Go to “Gmail > Settings > Accounts and Import > Grant access to your account” and add an additional staff person (he must have a Gmail e-mail account) to prevent losing access to all your social media and mobile technology profiles and accounts in a worst-case scenario. Learn Basic HTML. Keep it simple and on the short side.

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Empowering Change: Caitlin Cohen of the Sigida Keneyali Project

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Sigida Keneyali means “Health in Our Homes” in Bambara, the most common language in Mali. The other big challenge is logistics… I spend inordinate amounts of time filling out IRS forms, transcribing focus groups, writing grants, writing emails to volunteers, talking to lawyers about liability, etc. mali health NGO empowerment

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

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Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. I feel that art is able to translate beyond language, and communicate a much larger vision of personal connection.

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Taking Your Professional Development Global!

ASU Lodestar Center

I was able to participate thanks in part to professional development grants from Arizona Commission on the Arts and Sigma Alpha Iota. It was wonderful to again be immersed in French culture and language. 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

I was able to participate thanks in part to professional development grants from Arizona Commission on the Arts and Sigma Alpha Iota. It was wonderful to again be immersed in French culture and language. This was my first return visit to France since studying abroad in Montpellier twelve years ago.

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

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This post was written by my colleague Nora Grant, Community Programs Coordinator at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We continuously iterated our pop up museum format with different set up designs and language to realize a structure that satisfied these objectives. guestpost Museum of Art and History participatory museum'

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