sgEngage
OCTOBER 9, 2023
A Shared and Flexible Understanding of Impact As practitioners of and advocates for participatory philanthropy, we believe there’s a better way. Like many other activities in participatory philanthropy, this approach considers the process to be as important as the outcomes. It promotes mutuality instead of extraction.
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 25, 2016
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. It upped the stakes on change--something a funder could not provide alone.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 18, 2017
The Forgotten Roots of Capacity Development in the Movement for Ownership and Empowerment. Much of the current language and practice around capacity development seems to have forgotten the roots of the capacity development movement of the 1980s. Our role was to coach, support, mentor where necessary – but never to lead.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
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.
Museum 2.0
JUNE 11, 2014
We continuously iterated our pop up museum format with different set up designs and language to realize a structure that satisfied these objectives. 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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