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How grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients can do great things together with data and evaluation

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

As far as I can ascertain, this series was the first in which grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients came together in equal numbers and met as peers for reflective structured dialogue. Understanding that grant makers are motivated to see nonprofit grant recipients succeed. Speaking with each other on a regular basis.

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What the Museum Sell Out Game (Re)Taught Me about Participation Inequality

Museum 2.0

Instead of writing a post and soliciting comments (my typical approach), I used an online polling tool to create a simple game where you could read short provocations about questionable revenue sources and give each source an ethical thumbs-up or down. On platforms with many participatory options, more people are more active.

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Nonprofit Resolutions That Will Make A Difference in 2009 - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

60) Search « The Joys of Google Grants, Part 2 | Main | The Joys of Google Grants, Part 1 » Sunday Feb 01 2009 Nonprofit Resolutions That Will Make A Difference in 2009 Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 08:56PM | by Allyson Kapin What are your nonprofit resolutions for 2009?

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Melissa Ulbricht, MobileActive.org.

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[VIDEO] First Steps to Nonprofit Strategic Planning, Now!

Bloomerang

You’re teaching grant writing and doing board development and super involved in the nonprofit community there. And I teach Board Development and Grant Writing for the program. And Steven, I forgot to check in with you about the poll. But are you able to launch the poll at this point? You want to close the poll? .

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How to Make Better Decisions Online

Non Profit Quarterly

We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms. At FundAction , a European community of activists has used one such platform to make decisions about funding priorities and grants. for membership, board elections, inclusion, and accessibility).

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