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Do Capacity Building Programs Help Nonprofits Achieve Better Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Her answer to the question about capacity building programs leading to better impact will surprise you. In addition to the countless lunches, coffees, roundtables, focus groups and other opportunities for feedback and discussion I engaged in I also dug into the evidence on the impacts of capacity building on organizations.

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How can nonprofits and funders create mutually agreeable performance measures?

ASU Lodestar Center

Share logic models to increase dialogue and understand the theories and assumptions that underlie programs and investment decisions. Use participatory processes to define metrics and methods of data collection. Develop indicators to include learning as part of PM. Tell the story of learning.

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Our Museum: Extraordinary Resources on How Museums and Galleries Become Participatory Places

Museum 2.0

Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. And in several cases, the projects constituted "empowerment lite" for participants rather than true collaboration, co-creation, or transformation. This made the work more urgent, fragile. and realistic.

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Connected Citizens Report: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute published a new report called “ Connected Citizens &# that looks at the impact of networks on communities, and asks, what do these emerging networks mean for community change? The report asks a number of impact questions related to networked citizens and the future.

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Four Ways to Transform Organizational Culture to Advance Access, Equity, and Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

This requires the global community to center the voices of people directly impacted by poverty in its approach and support solutions that empower children and their families. Center People Directly Impacted by Poverty. Implement Grantmaking Approaches That Democratize Power.