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Getting from “no” to “yes” for climate justice

Candid

A philanthropy insider once shared during a presentation that foundations develop guidelines so they know to whom to say “no.” The experience has also shown us that, when pressed, philanthropy can flex its guidelines and meet the moment to address urgent need. . Though it sounded cynical and harsh, it also rang true.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. You need to orient your learners to the journey ahead. It is importance to establish participant guidelines, especially around respect, maintaining privacy, and encouraging a spirit of sharing.

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How to Keep Your Virtual Meetings on Track, Inclusive, and Engaging

Top Nonprofits

It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. Here are five guidelines I’ve created after learning from experiences over the past year: 1) Design the technology experience with the lowest barrier to entry. Except when it isn’t!

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Your Local Tech4Good Club Is Ready to Help

Tech Soup

Diversity — how to make sure the organizing team, presenters, attendees, and content are inclusive and reflective of the community. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. The workshops topics included.

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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.”. The foundation would fund differently by bringing grantees to the table to develop grantmaking guidelines, offering un-branded grantmaking to coalitions, and providing funds for research and innovation.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. The best approach is to learn blogging is to create a personal professional development blog - a blog you use to write reflections and learnings about your subject area or personal learning goals. Professional development - reflect and learn about your work.

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The Future of Authority: Platform Power

Museum 2.0

Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections. site has rules about acceptable content and ways that users can engage with each other--consider this article about the complicated and often highly subjective (read: powerful) Flickr community guidelines. Every Web 2.0