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How grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients can do great things together with data and evaluation

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

This is not actually a photo from the dialogue series. We refrained from taking photos, because we wanted to foster an atmosphere of candor and comfort as grantors and grantees engaged in conversation about a difficult topic. However, it is a favorite photo from another recent Tech Networks of Boston event.

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Prioritizing authentic connections through trust-based philanthropy 

Candid

To make the process transparent and participatory, we also asked other values-aligned organizations for feedback on our initial framework before putting it into action. We only ask for the information we need to understand the proposal and then dive deeper via phone calls.

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Adventures in Participatory Audience Engagement at the Henry Art Gallery

Museum 2.0

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. All the photos in this post are on Flickr here. This year, we took a different approach.

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The Outcome of Our Outcomes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Is the evaluation of your program something management needs to assess the performance of your organization as a whole? Measurement springs from many different motivations.

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Can Stories Be Data?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. Another way is to let qualitative data inform a hypothesis that you go on to test with numerical data. Do numbers only matter?

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Guest Post: Using Visitor Participation to Improve Object Labels at the San Diego Natural History Museum

Museum 2.0

Last month, I learned about a fabulous, simple participatory experiment called “Case by Case” at the San Diego Museum of Natural History that uses visitor feedback to develop more effective object labels. To date, the solution has been to put photos on the walls, pray for funding, and ignore the front-end evaluation bit.

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Using Design Thinking for A Foundation’s Investment Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. Notes from the presentations as well as photos can be found here. The next step in the process was for participants to evaluate some of the ideas using a 2×2 called the importance/difficulty grid. Thanks everyone!

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