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Can Stories Be Data?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. This approach is not about counting dollar signs, but about feedback loops which is discussed in Michael Quinn Patton’s new book on Developmental Evaluation.

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How you can foster sustainable innovation within your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

With this clarity of purpose, the nonprofit can focus on its culture. This is where participatory practice comes in to play. Once we have built a culture that is connected and engaged, nonprofit leadership is primed to use the insights of this culture to build a strategic plan that everyone is invested in.

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Four Ways to Transform Organizational Culture to Advance Access, Equity, and Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

For funders, nonprofits, and institutions across industries to effectively participate in the global movement to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty, they must first transform internal organizational culture and capacity to advance access, equity, and justice. Disrupt Power Imbalances.

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Thoughts on 3six5, a Successful Participatory Project

Museum 2.0

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. Museums and traditional institutions are not typically set up to manage participatory projects at such a high level of detail.

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Can Stories Be Data?

NTEN

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation , about participatory learning agendas. Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change.

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What's a Watt Stopper? My First FLIP Camera Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, storytelling. How To Make Internet TV : From the participatory culture foundation, an step-by-step guide. There's partner program where your can apply for a camera - it's called Flip Video Spotlight. There's also a YouTube Channel with some how-to videos and lots of other useful information. Editing Software.

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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

sgEngage

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. The following image conveys what this looked like in practice for the same cultural intermediary that used the matrix tool above.

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