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

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People impacted by the grants typically have no say in who gets the funding, for what, how much, and for how long. Lots of grantmakers are intrigued by participatory grantmaking. Participatory grantmaking invites to decision-making tables people who have historically been excluded. How Did Participatory Grantmaking Start?

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Beyond Broadcast: Wrap Up

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He made this point: But, participatory culture is changing the nature and topology of ours. And it's not just that we can build Wikipedia or Flickr streams. He granted it. It's ours in a different way. We can create works with strangers, with anonymous crowds, and in all the other ways we're inventing.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

Tech Soup

This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! was awarded a Knight 2010 News Challenge grant for Stroome , a collaborative video editing and publishing platform designed to. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8. Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video.

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Participation in Storytelling: Collaborative Video on Nonprofits Live

Tech Soup

This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! This special Digital Storytelling episode of Nonprofits Live will include secrets from the pros for nonprofits submitting photo and video stories to the TSDigs challenge in February. Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Grant Managers Network Annual Conference. Grant Managers Network Annual Conference. Grant Managers Network / New Orleans, LA / Less than $800. Grants / #GMN2016 / @grantsmanagers. Join us in-person or stream the conference online. Associations / #Ideas16 / @GreatIdeasConf, @ASAEcenter. Associations. Mar 14 - 16.

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Great reads from around the web on August 16th

Amy Sample Ward

Granted, it has been on the agenda of every executive ever since Henry Chesbrough’s seminal Open Innovation came out in 2003. " Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS » Most Significant Change (MSC) – "The most significant change (MSC) technique is a form of participatory monitoring and evaluation.

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And the Winner(s) of the Social Media Library Are.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am the director of a non-profit that promotes open museum practices, and we are in midst of launching a free service for arts organizations: a web site that permits any museum to create a participatory exhibit space and social network centered on the museum's collections. It takes content, strategy and elbow grease.

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