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.

Participatory 90

Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept a professional journal. There are many approaches to journaling and types of notebooks, but I have settled in on using a variation of the bullet journal technique and the one-sentence five-year journal.

Journal 148

Journal Reflection Facilitation Technique 148

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. If the participatory instructions were integrated into the standard black labels, visitors would not be as aware of the commonalities across the interactive art pieces.

Participatory 20

Participatory Arts Design Museum 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

We are asked to do it in controlled environments. It is my hope, my prayer that I can use these god given communication skills, our not so new world of participatory media, and make green something so compelling that it cannot help but become an all powerful movement. Yes, that difficult word, BUT.

Create 94

Create Green Social Media Structure 94

Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

Journalism is really the act of informing communities so that they can make better decisions, that is part of the public service, informing communities so that together we can know where else we need to help." --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us in the Spring of 2008 at an Innovations in Journalism conference, I thought, this is going to be big.

Interview 40

Interview Fund Report Community 40

Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. How can we improve on these models to becomes sites for participatory giving? Ideas participatory museum.

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Gift Participatory Museum Model 23

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. Bob argues that giving kids laptops enables more participatory, engaged learning.

Classroom 22

Classroom Children Museum Model 22