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Participatory Grantmaking: I’m in! Now what?

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You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. Not sure if participatory grantmaking is for you or maybe you need a refresher on what it is? Is this you?

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Reflections on MuseumNext and Facilitating Brainstorming

Museum 2.0

Unconference sessions , featuring topics as diverse as "playing an ARG" (with real labyrinth adventures ), "engaging visitors who were dragged to the museum," and "measuring and defining success in participatory projects." Facilitator bits. That said, the phrase "structured opportunity" is where MuseumNext suffered most. You did great.

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Open Source Strategic Planning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2009, the foundation began by harvesting almost a thousand proposals for future directions from community members through online crowd-sourcing. They then formed task forces to consider various options and make decisions, using a consensus-based model. Online input was supplemented with face-to-face local meetings around the world.

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Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

Museum 2.0

People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. The same thing applies to exhibits, but Second Life is a tool that facilitates making the exhibit in a more accessible way than full-scale fabrication.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Less a conference than a facilitated retreat, the 2016 gathering will encourage the active and full engagement of all participants. General / @southwestfdns. 38th Annual Nonprofit Conference. Accounting.

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2020: The Year that Changed Grantmaking

Connection Cafe

Once submitted, the application is scrutinized and debated across the organization –often requiring time consuming revisions of the proposal. This eliminates the need to create a new application for Rainin, and leverages the investment already made in a prior proposal.

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