sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking? They work to create room for differences of opinion and even conflict.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Lots of grantmakers are intrigued by participatory grantmaking. Participatory grantmaking invites to decision-making tables people who have historically been excluded. Why Would a Grantmaker Choose a Participatory Grantmaking Approach? So, what does participatory grantmaking look like in practice? But what is it?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

This morning I had the great pleasure and honor to present at Amplified Leicester about Community-Driven Social Impact, and run a short strategy-building workshop. They are also hoping to learn from and document their experiences to share as a model with the larger global community looking to do something similar. Presentation.

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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. However, being a non-profit also allows for something very powerful – a community call to action around a cause, in this case that of reading. Like my friend Gautam John , I’ve been an advocate and donor to Creative Commons.

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License Participatory Culture Children 93

The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 28, 2025

By empowering individuals to fundraise on your behalf, youre turning your community into active participants in your mission. Instead of relying solely on direct appeals from your organization, you provide tools and resources for individuals to create their own campaigns.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

But community and labor leaders, housing and other advocacy groups, and environmental justice organizations are fighting back. There’s a push from the ground up to strengthen civic participation, increase affordable housing, and secure resources for schools and communities. What is power building?

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

Containing five years of real-world learnings, this updated edition provides specific guidance for implementing the Truth, Racial Healing, & Transformation (TRHT) framework to support communities, organizations, and individuals. To do so, it explores ways to determine BIPOC-led organizations, as defined by BIPOC communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Note from Beth: This week I'm researching and thinking about the topic of creating movements. Valeria Maltoni wrote a great post with the same title featuring ten tips on creating movements just two days ago. If you are like me, you are asked all the time to use these media to create movements. Yes, that difficult word, BUT.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

re not creating a billboard, but rather starting a conversation -- you have to be willing to respond." "There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." each of various qualities. More here ). * The mindshift to be successful.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 4, 2012

Topic : Designing Online Engagement to Collaborate with Your Community. In this workshop, we’ll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans. Description : You can design online engagement to unleash your evangelists. Related Links : 2012 NTC.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Community engagement, though at times unwieldy and time-consuming, is critical to truly propel all variables towards a common goal. Julie Ha Truong will outline best practices in community engagement in planning. I wish I could see you all because so much of what we do in this work is building community. How do we do this well?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

A few years and a few hundred open mics into that experience, it became obvious that some venues fostered amazing poetry communities, others, not so much. The whole experience welcomed newcomers while helping them understand what "value" constituted in that community. One of my favorite open mics was at the Cantab in Cambridge, MA.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was exhilarating to see them inspired to create their own meanings in response: lovers whispering together in alcoves, people of all ages writing and drawing on walls and post-its, children painting, everyone sitting rapt before screens. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements.

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Forum One

JUNE 6, 2024

Fostering ongoing engagement is essential for building a community of passionate supporters and advocates. After understanding audience needs and employing design tools that build credibility and trust, let’s explore how design can maintain engagement and develop a sense of community and loyalty among your audience. Watch the webinar.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Topic : Designing Online Engagement to Collaborate with Your Community. In this workshop, we’ll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans. Description : You can design online engagement to unleash your evangelists. Related Links : BBCon website.

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Blackbaud Convio Conference Participatory 105

sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

From community involvement in your grantmaking decisions to better ways to think about risk, the current trends in grantmaking can help you make more effective decisions and more clearly tell your impact story. There are several benefits to adding participatory grantmaking to your funding programs.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). One of the things I always focus on in participatory exhibit design is ensuring that everyone has the same tools to work with.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Building a Community Across Platforms. Most commonly, communities form around an issue, a cause, or even a campaign on many different types of social media, and stretch across platforms. However, the real challenge is creating community across platforms. However, the real challenge is creating community across platforms.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2025

As of December 2024, you can search and download over 35,500 such resources about efforts to improve the lives of people in their communities and beyond. How can nonprofit organizations, communities, leaders, and funders come together to create a bright, child-centric future together? Kellogg Foundation.

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

At this crossroads, AI can become a tool to advance equityor another obstacle for marginalized communities. Why AI adoption matters for equity AI has the potential to act as an equalizer for underserved and under-resourced communities. For example, AI can help bridge educational gaps that were exacerbated during the pandemic.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

At the same time, there are growing calls for funders, organizations, and institutions to make decision-making more inclusive and shift power to impacted communities. Platforms such as Decidim , Citizen Lab , and Your Priorities can effectively engage communities throughout the process of making budget, policy, and funding decisions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

advocacy and leveraging the social community there: Starbucks Campaign. it takes advantage of the established Flickr community???s It describes various sub-groups of consumer co-created content. Consumer-fortified media (CFM): The business creates the content (ad), but the consumers provide the meaning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

Why should a nonprofit collaborate with their community or stakeholders? For nonprofit organizations, this means increased program outcomes leading to community awareness, funding from donors or grants, and increased employee morale. By listening to the community and responding to their needs, nonprofits can garner trust.

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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. Rick wanted a better way to describe what kinds of projects led to different community outcomes.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Since then, Stacey has become an indispensable member of our staff, leading our community programs and inspiring us to think in new ways about how we can build social capital in our community. Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. You can download and read the full version of my thesis here.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

One of the questions that comes up most frequently when I talk with folks about participation is: what should we do with the things that visitors create? This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. You can also watch time lapse video of any frame being created.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory. We had some money.

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Care2

JANUARY 12, 2011

If your organization is focused on building community among your activists and donors you’ve probably had to choose an online group tool. Facebook Groups: The new Facebook Groups, while still buggy at times, is fast becoming a popular platform for nonprofits looking to create a hub for discussion among active members and stakeholders.

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

Candid took note of the barriers nonprofits faced, created resources, and stayed true to their intent of reducing the nonprofits’ burden of providing data to multiple stakeholders. Grounded in a participatory approach, the tool will be designed by WFN members and built by WFN’s data and insights team.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

Yesterday, I learned about the Silk Mill, a British historic site that is going through a dramatic community-driven reinvention. In the fall of 2013, they launched Re:Make , an ambitious project to redevelop the museum, live, on the floor, with a mix of staff, guest artists, and community members. What do you do? it''s carried on.

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

Meanwhile, the planet burns and many already vulnerable communities are displaced. As a result, not enough funding is flowing to climate change efforts and even less of it for reducing harm to communities most impacted by the climate crisis. . In essence it’s a tiny slice of a tiny slice. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Guidelines Philanthropy Participatory Case Study 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Facilitation Skills System Change 86

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. This project wove together many different participatory threads. We co-created it from start to finish with community partners.

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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. If fundraisers are so keen on relationships, why weren't they the first into social media and participatory projects on behalf of their organizations?

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community. Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0,

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