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Equitable and Inclusive Messaging: Retaining Donors in a New Age of Storytelling

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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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Do Capacity Building Programs Help Nonprofits Achieve Better Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Why do we do what we do if not to make people’s lives better, their communities safer or increase access to quality education? Much of the current language and practice around capacity development seems to have forgotten the roots of the capacity development movement of the 1980s.

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. How can you describe user participation in a shared language that helps your team make the right decision for your project?

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How Museum Hack Transforms Museum Tours: Interview with Dustin Growick

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We use language throughout the tour to encourage the interpersonal, e.g. “make eye contact with two new museum friends.” There are definitely elements of what we do in use at other institutions and in other contexts, and this leads me to believe that B is a more accurate description. From the start, you are face to face with strangers.

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Frameworks and Lessons from the Public Participation in Science Research Report

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What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

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It's funny, it's a profession that's supposed to educate the public, but the profession itself was always very closed and insular. The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it.

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Lean Impact Series: 10 Changemakers Using Lean Startup Methods For Greater Social Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Back to the Roots’ mission is to make food personal again through the passionate development of tools that educate and inspire, one family at a time. They also learn professional and language skills in order to enable them to find meaningful employment. It’s no wonder why Lean is increasingly being adopted in the non-profit sector.

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