Evaluation Fund Measure Participatory 
sgEngage
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. Who decides what is measured?
ASU Lodestar Center
JUNE 3, 2020
Performance measurement (PM) informs strategic decisions. To truly move the needle towards ameliorating social challenges throughout the world, we must revisit the efficacy of what has been measured and how. Use performance measurements sensitive enough to detect gradual changes so that small scale initiatives can be informative.
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Deborah Elizabeth Finn
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Letting grantees lead: What we’re learning from the BUILD evaluation. Empowering Communities: Participatory Grantmakers Say We Must Go beyond Feedback.
Candid
MAY 15, 2024
To make the process transparent and participatory, we also asked other values-aligned organizations for feedback on our initial framework before putting it into action. TBP practices such as multi-year unrestricted funding and simplified application and reporting processes are the logical outcome of treating grantees as our partners.
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 25, 2016
The result, Our Museum , is an extraordinary funding program with a focus on community participation. Our Museum started with a clear-eyed assessment of community engagement funding and practices across the UK. Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. and realistic.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. How might we create a funding model that nourishes flexibility and innovation? The next step in the process was for participants to evaluate some of the ideas using a 2×2 called the importance/difficulty grid.
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