Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

The report analyzes many examples of networks and provides tools and tips for Network-Centric Grantmaking. Diana Scearce, who I’ve had the pleasure of working with on the Network of Networked Funders project, is the report author. The report is pure gold.

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Network Report Philanthropy Empowerment 106

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. So, it is important for the host to hold a call with the facilitation team to clarify expectations for the session outcomes and team authority/decision-making roles.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 127

Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

Guided by an understanding that good listening is a first step towards authentic and meaningful participatory grantmaking, in 2019 CRUS began an intentional process to review its strategy and approach to grantmaking. About the Authors. Learn more about grantmaking organizations and how they are driving the climate response.

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Intergenerational Culture Accessibility Philanthropy 52

Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

Mix and Match Museum and Community Content One of the reasons we started the pop up museum was to challenge the idea that museums have an omnipresent authority over what is and what’s not “valuable.” guestpost Museum of Art and History participatory museum'

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

My new book is, in a way, trying to restart that engine of human confidence and a sense of human empowerment, and the fact that we are entitledall of usto have a voice in how our lives go and the sorts of societies that we share and the sorts of futures that we and our children will have. I see that having a very powerful effect.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

HOW (slides 24-42) There are three “tracks” to our theory of change: individual empowerment, social bonding, and social bridging. Let’s start with empowerment. Empowerment is the “individual” side of our theory of change. These terms come from Robert Putnam, Harvard researcher and author of Bowling Alone.

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