The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 28, 2025

Generational Trends Younger donors, especially Millennials and Gen Z, prefer participatory and social ways to give back. Use photos, videos, and testimonials to show how peer-to-peer efforts are making a difference. Peer-to-peer fundraising fits naturally into how they support causes they care about.

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Fundraising Social Media Campaign Template 81

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was fascinating to see people--across social differences--responding to representations of love in the paintings, images, objects and narratives that were part of the installation. It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

He casts the whole idea of a great jazz jam in the context of the tragedy of the commons--like a poetry open mic, the jazz club is a community whose experience is fabulous or awful depending on the extent to the culture cultivates and enforces a healthy participatory process. participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion'

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. I've often been asked about examples of participatory practice in theater, dance, and classical music, and this report is a great starting point.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. This year, we took a different approach. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Two years later, this project is still one of the most fondly remembered participatory experiences at the museum--by visitors and staff. He creates a visual representation of his story.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. But people have participated in completely different ways. Here are three possible explanations for this gender divide: Men and women use bathrooms differently. But not so much in the men's bathroom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ).

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. But Vi's tour also reminded me how dramatically different a community museum is from a typical institution. But participatory facilitation can be taught. Tags: personalization participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I am fascinated by the incredible differences in what people contribute based on format and phrasing of the invitation to participate. This week at my museum, as we are wrapping up our current set of exhibitions on collecting, I noticed a simple, subtle example of this that I thought might interest you. that we selected during prototyping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

The book is a guide about how to navigate and thrive in a connected world that has been increasingly been influenced and increasingly defined by two different forces, old and new power. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. It downloads and it captures. New power is made by many.

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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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Activism Active Activities Model 98

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This person is writing about a participatory element (the "pastport") that we included in the exhibition Crossing Cultures. Each prompt was tied to a different artwork in the exhibition. Each of these activities invited contribution on a different level. Collaboration in the months before the show. Some with a colored pencil.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The group will working together over the next three years, meeting regularly face-to-face in the different countries as well as work together online. My experience so far has been to develop curriculum – mostly focused on technology that is adapted in different countries by local organizations.

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Rwanda Social Media Leadership Train 116

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

However, as several new books elaborate upon the concept from different perspectives, and a growing number of organizations have recently launched ambitious initiatives to expand the paradigm to other areas of business, I thought it might be a good time to reframe “Open&# from a design point of view."

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. The fundamental question here is how we balance different modes of audience engagement. They’re no longer “an exhibit” per se—more of an evocative design element that hints at an important story told elsewhere in the museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When I facilitate meetings or workshops for nonprofits, not matter the topic, I incorporate many participatory approaches and design thinking methods. What participatory techniques have you translated from in-person meetings to online meetings successfully? The technique helps you need to evaluate the ideas.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." In the first case, you are making the design process participatory. The exhibit opens.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Reflective Practice.

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Facilitation Technique Nonprofit Chart 124

Big Duck

MAY 15, 2024

Explore trust-based philanthropy and participatory grantmaking and get insights into different ways nonprofits can work with foundations and funders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. The rest of the day was spent in small group discussions framed around different issues. The started with some big picture frames.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms. The community is spread across many countries in different time zones, so people need to engage asynchronously at times most convenient for them. These features and new ones can be tailored to your needs.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. There are usually two aspects of this. The first is on a practice level – what should happen next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

s about being able to bring together people from many different spaces and have them co-exist together and have a kind of communication that???s The are people here from very different places. re asking people to bring what they learn here back to their own communities, and make a difference. in a much more embodied way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

As you can see from the schedule overview , this is more of a participatory event versus the traditional conference with powerpoints and panelists. NTEN is hosting the “ Leading Change Summit ” in San Francisco from September 3-6th. Early bird registration ends on July 31 and scholarship information is here.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. Ideally, you’d run this workshop with your team, organization, community group, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

What if you tried different processes to increase engagement or productivity? The facilitation methods are participatory. You also need to establish meeting norms or rules of engagement and then design and facilitate the process to get results.

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Facilitation Design Product Template 112

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The facilitation methods are participatory. Liberating Structures: My colleagues Nancy White and Kyla Shawyer introduced me to this participatory approach to facilitation. Collection of Nonprofit Design Thinking Playbooks This blog post profiles different nonprofit design thinking toolkits.

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Facilitation Skills System Change 86

Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. Several said things like, "I was curious to see how this kind of participatory, collaborative approach would work in practice."

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Most commonly, communities form around an issue, a cause, or even a campaign on many different types of social media, and stretch across platforms. This participatory workshop will help you answer the question: What does old-school community organizing have to teach the wired activist? Obviously, you are welcome to vote for them, too!

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sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2024

But it never hurts to review what information you’re asking for and whether it can be shortened or be collected in a different way. Think through whether these templates should be required or if your applicants can submit the same information—which they probably have from a different grant application—in a different format.

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