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Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do with It?

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Lots of grantmakers are intrigued by participatory grantmaking. Participatory grantmaking invites to decision-making tables people who have historically been excluded. Why Would a Grantmaker Choose a Participatory Grantmaking Approach? So, what does participatory grantmaking look like in practice? Those at the top decide.

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The Art of Facilitating Virtual Meetings with Sticky Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also wanted to experiment with translating some facilitation techniques I use for face-to-face meetings (like sticky note facilitation ) to virtual meetings. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. Depending on the number of people in your group, there are different ways to facilitate the report out.

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Making Museum Tours Participatory: A Model from the Wing Luke Asian Museum

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The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. Because the Wing is a community-driven museum, Vi (and all the tour guides) are from the community and have strong ties to it. What made it so special?

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Want to Co-Create an Exhibition on a Hot Issue? Introducing the Community Issue Exhibition Toolkit

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This project wove together many different participatory threads. The facilitation was as chaotic and fragile as a spiderweb. You can now download the Community Issue Exhibition Toolkit , a guide to this co-creation process. Short story: we learned a lot. We wrote a toolkit about our process. What did we learn?

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What are the most effective ways Nonprofits/Foundations can use Twitter #hashtags?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. This takes some facilitation. What other uses of hashtags by nonprofits are there?

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How Museum Hack Transforms Museum Tours: Interview with Dustin Growick

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They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). When the opportunity to design my own two-hour museum adventure at the American Museum of Natural History presented itself, I jumped at the chance. I think of us guides as “museum personal trainers”.

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Everyone's Smithsonian: Video, Slides, and an Open Strategic Planning Process

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Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Tags: participatory museum professional development. Side note: three times as many educators filled out surveys than any of the other groups.)

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