sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

Getting Closer to Your Community with Participatory Grantmaking Nonprofit organizations such as Maine Initiatives have been using Participatory Grantmaking for years to distribute the decision-making power to people closest to the problem. There are several benefits to adding participatory grantmaking to your funding programs.

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Trend Participatory Philanthropy Grant 74

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Letting grantees lead: What we’re learning from the BUILD evaluation. Empowering Communities: Participatory Grantmakers Say We Must Go beyond Feedback. The Power of Dialogue about Nonprofit Data and Evaluation. Evaluating a Culture.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When I facilitate meetings or workshops for nonprofits, not matter the topic, I incorporate many participatory approaches and design thinking methods. The technique helps you need to evaluate the ideas. What participatory techniques have you translated from in-person meetings to online meetings successfully?

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Online Participatory Technique Method 113

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

According to the Center for Evaluation Innovation’s “Lab for Learning” initiative , “make thinking visible” to cultivate a learning culture. Kellogg Foundation are cultivating cross-sector learning by developing program evaluation curriculums, and hosting forums for nonprofits to exchange lessons and ideas.

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Measure Create Arizona Participatory 52

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. Extra credit if you read the Our Museum evaluation (or its summary ) as well. The evaluation additionally called out some faulty assumptions in program design about leadership and staff continuity throughout the multi-year process.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 14, 2021

These program practices include needs assessment, decision-making, program implementation, and evaluation. Asking for beneficiary input on needs assessments and evaluations can show funders the true need for their dollars and demonstrate that the organization is meeting program objectives, noted in " The Eyes of the Beholders.".

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Program New York City Strategy Case Study 52

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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Participatory Museum History International 44

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

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. This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program.

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Participatory Arts Audience Museum 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc).

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Participatory Teen Vlog Mashup 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. This combination of advanced planning and evaluation helps one continuously improve their instructional design. I ask them to generate a list of keep, tweak, and delete.

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Learning Classroom Classes Student 84

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Participatory Question Museum Evaluation 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

Participatory Facilitation Techniques. Evaluation. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training. Full Group Interactive Exercises. Facilitation Methods and Techniques. Design Thinking As Instructional Technique. Innovation Facilitation Techniques. Facilitating With Sticky Notes. Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training.

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Training Train San Jose Instructional Design 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

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? One of the biggest lessons it learned was the need to set sharp and clear goals at the start.

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Evaluation Measure Seattle Lesson 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). Making Decisions and Getting Consensus. Strategic Dialogue. Organizational Development. Networked Facilitation. Community Organizing. Any many more.

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Facilitation Technique Chart Method 121

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. This list should be with you when you are planning out your content and engagement for your social media channels. One thing you will also notice when you review the Upworthy deck is that they also use measurement to improve their content and engagement.

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Social Media Headline Media Social 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My sessions were integrated into the various leadership, visioning process for women’s rights, curriculum development, and evaluation methods modules throughout the week as networked and social media skills were not the main focus. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

Museum 2.0

MARCH 29, 2011

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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San Diego History Museum Participatory 55

NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I also did an evaluation of all of our sites to help assess whether or not we are meeting our users'' needs and if any simple improvements could be made to improve their overall user experience. Can you give an example of how you applied what you learned from the 14LCS to your daily work?

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Donation Impact Share NTEN 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. I like to use a combined method.

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Story Data Analysis Measure 121

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

It’s important to engage your full team, especially tech development staff, early in evaluation planning to ensure that systems are in place to capture the data you’ll need to track progress and assess results. A few lessons for assessing civic tech from our work include: A Team Approach. Guides to Civic Tech Assessment.

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Metrics Method Tech America 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Design to Invite Active Participation Participatory design can be one of the most effective vehicles for developing relationships, building social capital and engaging with community members in museum programs. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Museum Program Community Participatory 49

Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2011

For me, Downward Draw provided an unusual opportunity to examine the more casual end of the participatory spectrum. For years, I've used Forrester Research's five social media user categories --creators, critics, collectors, joiners, and spectators--as a guide when thinking about how to design participatory experiences in physical space.

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Participatory Museum Measure Activities 41

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I can't say that any one experience--working on a collage with other visitors, swinging on a hammock, discovering a participatory display for pocket artifacts in the bathroom--directly contributed to increased attendance and giving. They all have in concert, and they build on each other.

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Audience Museum Participatory History 47

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning – from Karcsig. Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation , about participatory learning agendas. I like to use a combined method.

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Story Data Analysis Structure 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

We will be influenced by what our connections think and information production and distribution will become more participatory. Don’t use conventional evaluation criteria to assessing network impact. The report asks a number of impact questions related to networked citizens and the future.

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Network Report Empowerment Participatory 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Brand and reputation monitoring for a nonprofit or foundation. Crisis communication strategy.

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Social Media Channel Data Media 100

Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

Lesson: when your project, like GISKIN, really depends on the end experience, there’s no better way to evaluate it than to produce a bit of it and experience it complete and in situ. Lesson: what myths are working for you in your game or participatory project? Lessons Learned 3: This is not a museum talking (what a relief!)

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Lesson Game San Diego Design 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Key is a participatory development process. An evaluation a year later showed that the process was transformational from two perspectives: people had significantly changed their relationships (who they were working with), and they had significantly changed how they understood their work vis-à-vis others’. .

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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Identify and prioritize - evaluate the utility of different data sets to determine which has the highest potential value to the public and assess the difficulty to transform it or make it available in an accessible format. But that is a topic for another day, and another post. Stay tuned.

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Government Open Data API 52

Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Every program, old and new, should be evaluated against the mission (and the business model) for soundness. Tags: participatory museum professional development.

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Slides Process Video Open 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The topics include: Control and Transparency: How comfortable is the foundation with the participatory nature of Web 2.0 Evaluation and Measurement: How will foundation asses and evaluate the impact of sucess of their online communications efforts? communications? And how are the challenges inherent in the Web 2.0

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Social Media Foundation Report Media 50

Museum 2.0

JULY 8, 2015

On platforms with many participatory options, more people are more active. I think this diversification is key to inviting broad audiences to feel meaningfully involved in participatory projects. But another way to look at participation inequality is via the diversity of types of participation available.

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Game Museum Participatory Comment 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

So consider this just the first of many posts related to issues of cultural inclusion, evaluation, and impact. We have some strategies for tackling this: convening diverse content advisors, incorporating anti-bias educational approaches in our design, developing participatory opportunities for visitors to connect past to present.

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Measure Arts People Museum 47

Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

On the web, a jury of the masses (anyone) can evaluate the photographs in terms of aesthetic quality and relevance to the exhibition theme. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. Specifically, the Brooklyn Museum is doing research about the role of independence and influence in participatory experiences.

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Participatory Museum Artist Arts 24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106