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. Survey: Nonprofits Struggle with Demonstrating Outcomes. Nonprofits Struggle to Implement Diversity Measures, Survey Finds. Philanthropy is at a turning point.

Philanthropy 98

Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. At the end of every planning process, I send out a feedback survey to participants. Not surprisingly, their perception was that the conversation had been poorly facilitated and had no structure!

Virtual 52

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

The events are informal, personal, and fun, but our feedback mechanism--onsite and post-event surveys--not so much. Our typical onsite and post-event survey would attract about 20 people to opt in. Instead, Stacey thought, why not make the feedback experience an activity unto itself? We got more feedback. We got intriguing feedback.

Activities 50

Activities Active Activism Participatory 50

sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Participatory grantmaking has been a big part of the Boston’s Women’s Fund since its founding. As part of their grantmaking process, the Boston Women’s Fund surveys their grantees several times a year. But when Natanja first joined, she saw the barriers that kept many of the voices that they wanted at the table from participating. “We

Voice 66

Voice Strategy Mississippi Boston 66

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. If you have facilitated training internationally and used participatory facilitation techniques, what tips or insights do have to offer?

Facilitation 50

Facilitation Training Train International 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

Model 98

Model Activities Active Activism 98

Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space.

Design 49

Design Participatory Children Museum 49