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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

A Shared and Flexible Understanding of Impact As practitioners of and advocates for participatory philanthropy, we believe there’s a better way. Like many other activities in participatory philanthropy, this approach considers the process to be as important as the outcomes. It promotes mutuality instead of extraction.

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Connected Citizens Report: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The report opens with a look at current practices of using networks for citizen-centered social action that are promising for the future. Providing handrails for collective action: Giving enough direction for individuals to take effective and coordinated action. Seeds of the Future: Connected Citizens Today.

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The ongoing revolution in philanthropy: An open-ended reading list

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

It is really inspiring to see philanthropic and nonprofit professional engaging in public conversations about these challenges, and even more inspiring to see them taking action to create positive changes. Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Community-based participatory research.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Weekly, I hear from someone who is putting ideas from the book into action. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. and "why?" to "how?".

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How can nonprofits and funders create mutually agreeable performance measures?

ASU Lodestar Center

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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Our Museum: Extraordinary Resources on How Museums and Galleries Become Participatory Places

Museum 2.0

Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. And in several cases, the projects constituted "empowerment lite" for participants rather than true collaboration, co-creation, or transformation. The financial austerity measures applied external pressure to the Our Museum institutions.

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The AI Mirror—How to Reclaim Our Humanity in the Age of Machine Thinking

Non Profit Quarterly

So Im not really thinking about AI tools that deal with data from somewhere else in nature other than our own speech, thought, and action. They also reflect the long arc of what we know is a history with a lot of inequality baked into and embedded within those thoughts, those actions. I see that having a very powerful effect.