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What strategies can nonprofit leaders use to move program beneficiaries into program partners?

ASU Lodestar Center

Involving beneficiaries can save organizations money on projects by utilizing untapped beneficiary talent, according to an article from Public Administration and Development. Use participatory evaluation , as Rabinowitz suggests. Ask beneficiaries to volunteer with projects and events. Obstacle 1: “We have no money.”.

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E-Mediat: Networked Capacity Building in the Middle East

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. Multi-stakeholder projects with many organizations, people, and roles are complex.

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Spring Internship Opportunities - and Thoughts about Internships

Museum 2.0

We're seeking great folks for public programs, participatory exhibit design, online marketing, 3D design, and whatever else you might have to offer. I wanted the ability to do projects that would end up on the floor. I wanted freedom and responsibility. At this time, we're not ready to offer people highly structured internships.

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. I tried to master the administrative work as quickly as possible so I could keep volunteering for other creative projects. It was going to be developed by contractors and overseen by Anna.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

Journalism is really the act of informing communities so that they can make better decisions, that is part of the public service, informing communities so that together we can know where else we need to help." --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us is a nonprofit project pioneering “community funded reporting.”

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. I hope to pair both vision and mission and goals with concrete tools for you to be able to help manage whatever project that you are overseeing or strategic planning process that you were overseeing. We really need strong project managers.

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A Few Social and Collaborative Fundraising Approaches

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" But even more impressive was Lucy Hooberman's pledge: "I will mentor a minimum of two people in the developing world in the area of my skills base and expertise (media, communications, broadcasting , democratic media building, participatory media, community video).