sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

For more on how to incorporate wellness best practices into your grantmaking organization, check out our blog post, “ Workplace Wellness for Grantmakers and the Nonprofits They Support. ” 2. It should be to make an impact and support nonprofits that align with your mission. Participatory grantmaking does require a mindset shift.

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Charity Village

JULY 20, 2023

Eligible projects will help communities mitigate and/or adapt to climate change, focusing on innovative, participatory, equitable, and multisolving approaches. As part of the Community Climate Transitions Innovation Fund, Tamarack Institute is offering funding for six climate-related projects in communities across Canada.

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Charity Village

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Beginning in January 2023, the online program will support 20-25 policy leaders to enhance their skills and competencies and enhance their organization’s strategic engagement in the public policy process. In this participatory learning environment, you will: learn from […].

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

The crowd was uniformly supportive of all, but effusive applause was meted out based strictly on quality. When I think about what makes for great participatory experiences in both poetry open mics and jazz jams, it comes down to three basic things: The process is open. participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion'

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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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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

There is much hand-wringing, but little in the way of actual financial support because most foundations do not see themselves as climate or justice funders. . Of that, in 2019 only a fraction (about $60 million) went to support equity or justice related efforts. Supporting peer organizing and collective funder action. .

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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. Here's what I think is really strong about the report: Coordinated, succinct research findings supporting the rise of active arts engagement. What do you get out of the report?

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Candid

JULY 28, 2022

Shawn Escoffery from the Roy & Patricia Disney Family Foundation shared an anecdote during a plenary session about how he refused to do land acknowledgements until he felt that his foundation was taking action and supporting Native communities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

Woodford and Preston list four main outcomes to validate stakeholder participation: helping organizations make informed decisions, facilitating stakeholder commitment and support, stakeholder education about the organization, and successful program implementation. Collaborate through field work and participatory practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When I facilitate meetings or workshops for nonprofits, not matter the topic, I incorporate many participatory approaches and design thinking methods. There are platforms that are designed to support design thinking methods such as Mural.Co. ” This is a simple process for getting participants to prioritize ideas or decisions.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2012

I'm particularly excited about two internships that relate to participatory exhibition design. First, there is the Participatory Exhibit Design Internship. These interns work with our curatorial team to develop interactive and participatory components for upcoming exhibitions. Exciting, right?

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Get them moving on behalf of your charity with participatory fundraising. Place an ad that says “Acme Nonprofit Thanks John & Jane Doe for their invaluable support and friendship.” They will start to hear from friends and acquaintances, and they will feel like you truly care about their support.

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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. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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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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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. What Does It Look Like to Support Women of Color to Lead? General Operating Support and Relinquishing the Illusion of Control. Here are 6 ways it could go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

DISRUPTION: Evolving Models of Engagement and Support. My colleagues at The Monitor Institute just published a study called “ Disruption: Evolving Models of Engagement and Support ,&# a national study of member-based advocacy organizations. View more documents from Working Wikily. and James L. and James L.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. It's also worth noting that the facilitation supported thoughtful, on-topic engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. Why aren’t more museums designing highly constrained participatory platforms in which visitors contribute to collaborative projects?

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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." vlogging, and podcasting). .

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. And that leads me to a basic question: Is it better to replace the post-its with a label that answers visitors’ questions, or to continue to support this participation?

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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. He is the CEO for Ark Regional Services, a community-based provider of residential, employment, and educational supports for adults with developmental disabilities in Laramie, Wyoming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The facilitation methods are participatory. MindTools Team Management Tools -Mindtools is a robust collection of resources to increase productivity, improve management and leadership skills, and support organizational development initiatives. This section includes templates for meeting processes.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2022

With increasingly international employee relationships, outsourcing and supply chains, this leaves donors exposed to reputational risk if they do not directly support communities along their footprints.” . One of them said: “As the rich get vaccinated, the poor remain exposed to the virus.

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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. She can give a freewheeling, idiosyncratic tour because she has the confidence, the connection to the content, and presumably the institutional support to do so. But participatory facilitation can be taught.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. Why aren’t more museums designing highly constrained participatory platforms in which visitors contribute to collaborative projects?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Note from Beth: I went to my first Games for Change Festival ten years ago, in 2005 and have been a fan and supporter ever since. Kennedy (EMK) Institute to support it in educating the public about U.S. government and encouraging participatory democracy. ” Senate Immersion Module.

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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. Crowdfunding can significantly increase reach, promote awareness, and rally more communal support.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

It’s participatory. Much of the work that non-profits are doing is not necessarily relatable to the average community member or supporter. Maybe you think of them is interchangeable terms and you wouldn’t be alone in that. However, and this is a big however, at its foundation “storytelling” is a verb.

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sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s where participatory grantmaking comes in. What is Participatory Grantmaking? Whether organizations start with a single grant program or incorporate a participatory approach across all their funding, there are a variety of ways to practice participatory grantmaking. And several ways not to do it.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2015

And so, one of the most successful, accidental, and fraught participatory projects of the past decade comes to an end. No one planned the love locks, but their success is rooted in the same principles that make all the best participatory projects work: it requires no instructions beyond its own example. Nor are they historic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

My journal is not only an annual planning and goal-setting tool but also supports daily reflection as the year progresses. Artificial Intelligence for Giving: Allison Fine and I published our research paper on unlocking artificial intelligence for generosity, supported by the Gates Foundation.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2011

The best participatory projects are useful. The participatory activity in question is part of the new Unfinished Business gallery, a room in which the museum engages with a contemporary issue related to the passion and work of Jane Addams and the historic Hull-House activist residents. It is this station that grabbed my attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

(not that this necessarily applies to Oxfam) but its super low budget by using existing infrastructure and orgs of any size could really raise their profile and provide an intense interactive opportunity for supporters this way. What creative twist could your organization do with this technique and support your cause/work?

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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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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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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

A nationwide network, like the American Red Cross , supports powerful capacity to conduct and utilize PM. Use participatory processes to define metrics and methods of data collection. Create organizational partnerships to build capacity and deeper understanding. Partnerships can take many forms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Global Voices is the leading participatory media room for voices from developing countries around the globe. I've been a long time advocate and supporter of the work that is being done over at Global Voices and have seen the impact first hand in Cambodia where is a vibrant local community of bloggers. at Harvard University.

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