Candid

JUNE 9, 2021

Participatory grantmaking [i] is no longer new. To be clear, participatory grantmaking has never been new. One of the first projects I was assigned to after joining Candid (then Foundation Center) was the guide on participatory grantmaking, now a seminal work in the growing body of literature on participatory grantmaking.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

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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

Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

He casts the whole idea of a great jazz jam in the context of the tragedy of the commons--like a poetry open mic, the jazz club is a community whose experience is fabulous or awful depending on the extent to the culture cultivates and enforces a healthy participatory process. Opaque funding decisions don''t help anyone.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2024

Here are four ways you can make your funding program better for the people who will be completing it. Does this seem commensurate with the amount of funding you are providing? Anywhere a grantee might find information about the funding source should link to or outline the deadline and requirements.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Empowering Communities: Participatory Grantmakers Say We Must Go beyond Feedback. What if pizza shops were funded like human service nonprofits?

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

For nonprofit organizations, this means increased program outcomes leading to community awareness, funding from donors or grants, and increased employee morale. Collaborate through field work and participatory practice. Through collaboration with stakeholders, an organization can implement specified programs, leading to higher success.

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

As a result, not enough funding is flowing to climate change efforts and even less of it for reducing harm to communities most impacted by the climate crisis. . It also explains how the McKnight Foundation is connecting its participatory democracy work with climate justice efforts in historically marginalized communities. .

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

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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Candid

JULY 5, 2022

1 ] This year, we asked funders about their giving in FYE (fiscal year end) 2020 and 2021, including funding designated for COVID-19 [ 2 ] and what trends they are paying attention to this year. Overall giving dollars increased from FYE 2020 to 2021 by 12% among 519 survey respondents who provided funding data for both years.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

The result, Our Museum , is an extraordinary funding program with a focus on community participation. Our Museum started with a clear-eyed assessment of community engagement funding and practices across the UK. Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. didn't mince words.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Google’s challenge was not about cold hard cash, although they did award sizable grants and funding. The guidebook focuses on “participatory machine learning,” which actively involves a diversity of stakeholders – technologists, UXers, policymakers, end users, and citizens.” ” .

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sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s where participatory grantmaking comes in. What is Participatory Grantmaking? Your community lives and breathes your impact area every day, so bringing them into your grantmaking process can provide more equity and stronger results to your funding decisions. And several ways not to do it.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The institution is community-funded, staffed, and designed. She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. But participatory facilitation can be taught. What kind of participatory techniques have you seen work well on tours?

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Monique Couvson, President and CEO for Grantmakers for Girls of Color , Natanja Craig-Oquendo, Executive Director of the Boston Women’s Fund , and Marsha Morgan, Board Advisory Member of the Community Investment Network and Black Women Give Back honoree. Artwork by Toya Beacham See Women and Girls.

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Voice Strategy Mississippi Boston 69

Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." In the first case, you are making the design process participatory. In the second, you make the product participatory.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Grants and gifts that commit multiple years of funding up front best enable learning to unfold. Use participatory processes to define metrics and methods of data collection. Use performance measurements sensitive enough to detect gradual changes so that small scale initiatives can be informative.

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Measure Create Arizona Participatory 52

The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Unleash Crowdfunding Potential: Transform Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Game In the challenging nonprofit community, smaller organizations often struggle with securing adequate funds to execute their mission. In fact, you might already be using a form of crowdfunding without realizing it!

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Game Fundraising Campaign Generation 59

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

However, datamaking has added power because it can beused to deepen strategic social processes of foundation-funded change. Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. Datamaking can ground processes of joint learning that energize grantee relationships.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

It is losing funding, attention, and relevance. A strong participatory process is not a loosey-goosey, open the doors and do whatever strategy. It''s not a question of the participatory process being unidirectional, something that we are doing for you the community. design inclusion institutional change participatory museum'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action. I was interviewed for the report).

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. For example, when the world shut down, we had to think of new ways to help our clients raise funds when in-person events were no longer available. fancy food! silent auctions! corporate sponsorships!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

As you can see from the schedule overview , this is more of a participatory event versus the traditional conference with powerpoints and panelists. The event will end with an “ Idea Accelerator ” where participants will have an opportunity to develop and pitch an actionable idea for feedback and funding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. I’ve been involved with TechSoup/Netsquared Network since its inception back six years ago and so it is nice to be part of the narrative arc.

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Global Network Participatory Netsquared 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

The study was funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The John S. We do this not only to stay in the spirit of the participatory engagement styles that are now emerging, but also because the findings represent only the present moment in a story that is far from concluding. and James L. and James L. Knight Foundation, [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

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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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2019

Non-traditional forms of grantmaking are also gaining in popularity, such as “participatory grantmaking,” where community members (not foundation staff) are the people who determine who receives grants. Check out the grantors that have given grants to these organizations and see if you might be a good fit for the next round of funding.

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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 ). ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

I signed up to help in whatever way I could to promote and support this idea and Henry Timms. In yesterday’s New York Times, David Bornstein wrote an excellent piece that described the results and how this participatory, community-owned campaign has exploded into an global day of giving in just four years.

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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. We have no funding and a staff that is stretched with temporary exhibitions, contracts, and other long-term planning.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2013

These are unpaid, part-time internships in which you will make a significant contribution to our work, and at the same time, learn a heck of a lot about participatory design and community engagement. Participatory Performing Artist-in-Residence program. and I have always wanted to find ways to invite them in.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2014

Participatory fundraising often starts with events that allow people to get involved causally with a small time commitment. This blog talks about participatory fundraising ideas and the effect of healthy competition. Annual Fund Fundraising Arts & Cultural museum' Make it fun! When is the last time you told your story?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

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.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2014

You can donate your birthday to raise funds for clean water. Just surf through their beautiful site and you''ll see how they empower people as participants in raising serious funds for their cause. fundraising participatory museum risk Technology Tools Worth Checking Out' That''s what building a movement is all about.

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