Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 2, 2021

Author Melissa Greenwell interviewed many top business executives while doing research for her book, Money on the Table. When she asked them to list characteristics of their best leaders, those who work well as a team, collaborative was almost always first and foremost.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 8, 2021

Author Melissa Greenwell interviewed many top business executives while doing research for her book, Money on the Table. When she asked them to list characteristics of their best leaders, those who work well as a team, collaborative was almost always first and foremost.

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

It also explains how the McKnight Foundation is connecting its participatory democracy work with climate justice efforts in historically marginalized communities. . Invest in, support, and learn from intermediary organizations, many of which can help you adopt participatory approaches to grantmaking. . Not reinventing the wheel.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 16, 2020

Author Melissa Greenwell interviewed many top business executives while doing research for her book, Money on the Table. When she asked them to list characteristics of their best leaders, those who work well as a team, collaborative was almost always first and foremost.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. We had some money. You can find several more photographs here.

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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. When someone gives money, that's almost always a given. Even stranger, why are they so often the most opposed to such relationship-oriented efforts when extended to everyday members or visitors?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"While none of these approaches cost a lot of money, they certainly require staff time to support. Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." Go read it.

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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. and "That's a lot of money, right?" But participatory facilitation can be taught. What kind of participatory techniques have you seen work well on tours? What made it so special?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 5, 2017

Author Melissa Greenwell interviewed many top business executives while doing research for her new book, Money on the Table. When she asked them to list characteristics of their best leaders, those who work well as a team, collaborative was almost always first and foremost.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 14, 2021

Obstacle 1: “We have no money.”. 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. Obstacle 4: “We do not believe evaluation is important.”.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish?

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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. However, it’s essential to carefully plan out the logistics for packing, shipping, and distribution of rewards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

We can’t treat donors like ATM machines, only asking for money. The money will be channeled into the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative , a newly formed group that will initially focus on education and health. We have give gratitude and thanks and build ongoing relationships. But let me reflect on how amazing yesterday was.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. But if accessibility isn’t something you’re familiar with, making accommodations for accessibility may feel like too big of a challenge to tackle when you’re limited in time and money, as most nonprofits are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

So, I asked, "There has been a lot of criticism about Second Life lately, do you think we're wasting our time and money? We could also IM our questions from the adults were listening and observing. Is it just a fad?" " I don???t t think its a fad. Once you reach the point where you have two million subscribers, you???ve

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

We started the summer with no money and a strategic vision to be a thriving, central gathering place. I can't say that any one experience--working on a collage with other visitors, swinging on a hammock, discovering a participatory display for pocket artifacts in the bathroom--directly contributed to increased attendance and giving.

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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. So, G4CG set out to identify organizations that the group did trust and move money out to those organizations. But when Natanja first joined, she saw the barriers that kept many of the voices that they wanted at the table from participating.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. If I get on the bus without money, the bus driver has the discretion to wave me through. And if someone is celebrating, he sings along.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

Understanding that nonprofits perceive funders as having not just money but also much more power. Studying (and implementing) community-based participatory research methods. __. Mine are based on what I learned during the dialogue series, and also on untold numbers of public and private conversations on the topic. __.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Participatory. Participatory. Again, if it's built with public money, the public has the right to use it. Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. Collaborative. Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative. Are those words you usually associate with your government? Transparent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. In the Networked Nonprofit, Kanter and Fine show nonprofits how to harness this flexibility to pursue their mission in partnership with two billion connected citizens.&#.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2014

The first two are opportunities to immediately get involved, either by donating money or raising it. You can track exactly where what projects your money supports. fundraising participatory museum risk Technology Tools Worth Checking Out' charity: water is incredible at empowering regular people to make a difference.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution. We have no money. I know, lots of people get paid lots of money for this, but lots of people do it as volunteers, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

to raise money for sponsoring a college student in Cambodia via the Sharing Foundation. I wanted to capture a few thoughts and pointers about using video for fundraising pitches on the web or grassroots participatory video coupled with grassroots participatory fund raising. I did a campaign video. I don't know what I mean yet.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2014

Participatory fundraising often starts with events that allow people to get involved causally with a small time commitment. Participants typically have a story and by raising money for the event they can dip their toe into the storytelling waters with one or two sentences about why they are participating. Make it fun!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

This article implies that the most important new audiences are white, urban millenials with money to spend. She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

Some are describing this shift in perspective as “participatory medicine” or “person-centric care.” ” They have developed a plan to make decisions on how to spend the money. They had four collaborative research projects, ideas were there but money not before the Icebucket Challenge. This “Dr.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. Here’s how Daniel Ben-Horin described the potential of the project at the time: "What stands between nonprofits and much greater mission effectiveness is no longer about money. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Talking about money, openly. I led a session with Eric Siegel and Ellen Rosenthal on museum business models and some of the issues we grapple with in managing money. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The $5,000 prize money (and more importantly world-wide exposure) will all go towards freeing children from exploitation and getting them back to school in Cambodia. We understand that we are very close to winning the award and desperately need your help voting for us! More details at www.carpetsforcommunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Non-profits are told to learn from business; in insightful and humorous book, Lublin, over at DoSomething.org , tells the for profit sector what it can learn from non-profits, particularly about how to thrive with virtually no money. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon. Pick up your copy of the book on Amazon.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Let's look at the statistics from three big participatory projects that wrapped up recently. This leads me to two conflicting perspectives on voting in exhibitions: Voting on substantive outcomes (money, exhibitions) is good because it provokes engagement with objects, artists, and fellow visitors.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2014

If your nonprofit wasn’t one of those asking for money on Giving Tuesday, why not? Participatory decision making can be the curse of working at a nonprofit organization, but a two-hour meeting to choose the new copier is a poor excuse for missing out on a fundraising opportunity. Sending an email is fairly inexpensive.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2012

book club for three reasons: The experimental projects of this museum-in-process included some of the most innovative participatory initiatives I've ever seen, especially in a discipline--history--that is often staid. A lot is changing in European museums--especially when it comes to money. I chose this book for our next Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). The professional tools will cost money, but can process higher volumes of information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

" In the guy in the gray shirt is Paul Marino from the Academy of Machinima and Moo Money from Alt-Zoom studios. The article describes how the genre is linked to participatory/DIY culture. The article provides a good primer and illustrates various genres of machinima created in different gaming environments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. Being both a non-profit and a small one at that, has its own downsides – of limited time, money and resources. Like my friend Gautam John , I’ve been an advocate and donor to Creative Commons.

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