sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

This is why it’s important to keep an eye on the trends impacting the philanthropic industry, and incorporating the ideas that make sense for your organization. It should be to make an impact and support nonprofits that align with your mission. There are several benefits to adding participatory grantmaking to your funding programs.

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Trend Participatory Philanthropy Grant 74

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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CauseVox

AUGUST 29, 2023

Storytelling as a Trust Builder: Unveil the profound impact of real-life testimonials and narratives on donor engagement. Going Beyond the Wallet : Strategies to involve and engage donors who seek a more participatory role in your mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

The opening plenary was hosted by the renowned Usha Menon , past chair of the Resource Alliance and celebrated speaker, connector and consultant to the social impact sector. If you want to see storytelling at its finest, coupled with breathtaking social impact, watch the videos. I’ll share that in my next post!

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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. . There was also a growing understanding that centering equity in these grants was essential to mitigating the inequities of COVID’s impact. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Guidelines Participatory Case Study Philanthropy 105

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

If you want to a chance to win, leave a comment on this post sharing something that you’d like to learn about Impact Leadership or some wisdom from your experience about practicing impact leadership! One of our first design tasks as facilitators was for all of us to get clear on what we mean by “Impact Leadership.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

This is where participatory practice comes in to play. Participatory practice is a concept which means giving voice to those in the community who know the issues best, and then planning and organizing solutions to these issues using the resources of the nonprofit to implement solutions. This data is how we measure our impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

This morning I had the great pleasure and honor to present at Amplified Leicester about Community-Driven Social Impact, and run a short strategy-building workshop. Community-Driven Social Impact for Amplified Leicester. Tags: community presentation ampleic cdsi community driven social impact social by social. Presentation.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. I've often been asked about examples of participatory practice in theater, dance, and classical music, and this report is a great starting point.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 8, 2022

“ Your Guide to Program Data Discovery ” will be held on Wednesday, March 23, 2022 from 11:15 am – 11:45 am PST and focuses on how technology can help visualize impact in an easy-to-digest fashion. Many nonprofit organizations know they are making a difference in their unique communities, but do they also know how to showcase that impact?

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Empowering Communities: Participatory Grantmakers Say We Must Go beyond Feedback. Why Impact-Per-Dollar is a terrible, harmful way to measure nonprofit effectiveness. Community-based participatory research. Here are 6 ways it could go.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

List the organization’s stakeholders, group them, then analyze their impact on the organization and how the organization affects them. Collaborate through field work and participatory practice. Identify and analyze stakeholders: Stakeholders can be internal or external, primary or secondary (Castillo, 2020).

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

This argument became one of the foundations of The Participatory Museum. I value platforms for their power to scale impact. This is the participatory platform model. Museums could make the platforms for those experiences. There is power IN the platform--power to shape the way people participate.

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Platform Impact Childhood Museum 31

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Since 2010 I have seen, again and again and again, how valuable human facilitation is to the participatory process.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization. If fundraisers are so keen on relationships, why weren't they the first into social media and participatory projects on behalf of their organizations?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Who did the scholarships go to, and what was the impact of your donation? As we try to raise support for 2015, we wanted to share the impact of your donation from last year, from the voices of our scholarship recipients. As I am sure is the case with many nonprofit organizations, our budget for professional development is limited.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2022

Despite anticipated reductions in COVID-19-related giving, of the 346 foundations who responded, 54 are still factoring in the pandemic and related impacts: . Paying attention to concerns about the impact of COVID on mental health of children” . Federal legislation impacting DAF and giving incentives” . “We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Overall, the program led to over 100 collaborations and its impact is ongoing. The facilitation methods are participatory. Liberating Structures: My colleagues Nancy White and Kyla Shawyer introduced me to this participatory approach to facilitation.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. While a funder can have impact in directing organizational leaders to turn their heads in a particular direction, it's often negative externalities--financial pressure, political changes--that spur organizations to significant action.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Stakeholder involvement will drastically improve the final plan and create a culture of participatory decision-making. This list includes board members, employees, volunteers, donors, people who are served by the organization, community members, or any person or group who is impacted by the organization. Expect to be surprised.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. Think about how this impacts staff recruiting and training. But participatory facilitation can be taught. What kind of participatory techniques have you seen work well on tours?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. This way of working requires a different, more participatory leadership model and mindset that Allison Fine and I first wrote about in The Networked Nonprofit and others have written about called “networked leadership.” It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

It’s participatory. Some of which they may or may not understand, and they definitely won’t be able to gather the impact of those services. But by telling a story, you can not only communicate the services/programs you provide, you can also articulate their impact. That means it’s what we are doing.

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sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s where participatory grantmaking comes in. By giving your community an active role in your grantmaking process, you get a better understanding of their needs, build stronger relationships, and have a more direct impact. What is Participatory Grantmaking? And several ways not to do it.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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Storytelling Donor Cancer Guidelines 75

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

We decided to show a selection of Danny's lists in a hallway surrounded by a participatory element where we invite visitors to contribute to new lists on evocative themes ("Things we forget," "The best feelings in the world," etc.) One of the collections on display is a set of "found lists" collected by a local farmer, Danny Lazzarini.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2022

As a result, some foundations have started thinking about giving in a crisis before it even begins and developing a strategy to make sure that their funds have the most impact. They are now adding new subject areas to their portfolios, like public health, mental health, food security, use of technology, and democracy, as just a few examples.

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Europe Case Study Fund Practice 98

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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Here are some specific accomplishments for this past year: The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman a few years ago. In 2020, it was about adapting participatory processes to the virtual, remote environment.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Capitulation to this style of philanthropy further neglects millennials donors, who lag behind the financial impact of previous generations. Leaders should also engage in participatory grantseeking. Contributions from high net worth individuals are concealing declines in middle and lower class giving.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Use participatory processes to define metrics and methods of data collection. Participatory processes engage diverse stakeholders in collective thought, action, and decision-making, while increasing the capacity of individuals and communities through skill building and empowerment.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. To learn more about knowledge building and its impact on equity in grantmaking, check out the webinar, Alchemy in Action: The Dance of Knowledge Building, Grant Strategy, and Equity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

I’ve spent a lot of time trying to understand how the feng shui of a classroom impacts learning. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way. I also had them move them chairs back at the end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Her answer to the question about capacity building programs leading to better impact will surprise you. In addition to the countless lunches, coffees, roundtables, focus groups and other opportunities for feedback and discussion I engaged in I also dug into the evidence on the impacts of capacity building on organizations.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Building Meaningful Engagement: Crowdfunding can assist nonprofits in not just raising funds but also in constructing significant participatory relationships with donors, potentially expanding their current supporter base. This can allow the organization to amplify its message and thus broaden its total donation and impact.

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Participatory grantmaking has been a big part of the Boston’s Women’s Fund since its founding. Know Your Stories, Quantitatively and Qualitatively “When we are thinking about how we collect this data and how we quantify this impact, it’s important to qualify it and be able to tell these stories,” said Marsha.

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