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Participatory Grantmaking: I’m in! Now what?

sgEngage

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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How you can foster sustainable innovation within your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

Between the pandemic and workforce shortages, you are also possibly navigating reduced income, unable to resume all of your normal events and programming, and struggling to compete for funding. This is where participatory practice comes in to play. The past two years have been rough for everyone. So where are all the good ideas?

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E-Mediat: Networked Capacity Building in the Middle East

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. Build the capacity of these NGOs and CSOs to use new media effectively through mentoring and coaching. Provide digital infrastructure to the 150 – 250 organizations through a public-private partnership with Microsoft.

Network 95
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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

is a nonprofit project pioneering “community funded reporting.” is trying to pioneer this concept of community-funded reporting which is the act of distributing the cost of hiring a reporter across a lot of different people. The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism.

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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.”. How might we create a funding model that nourishes flexibility and innovation? The Brainerd Foundation would follow and fund the ideas of new leaders. How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3. Concept 4: 21st Century Enquirer.

Design 50
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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. We tell our colleagues, other folks have mentors, or we do some research about it. And funding opportunities, I’ve experienced, start to kind of just roll in. How do we do this well? We start to take action. . I call it the snowball effect.

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A Few Social and Collaborative Fundraising Approaches

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" But even more impressive was Lucy Hooberman's pledge: "I will mentor a minimum of two people in the developing world in the area of my skills base and expertise (media, communications, broadcasting , democratic media building, participatory media, community video).