Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

Community Fund: A Participatory Grantmaking Case Study , by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative   This case study offers a first-hand look at fostering community collaboration in philanthropy. It outlines best practices and specific activities that funders can employ to safeguard and support their participatory grantmaking decision makers.

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Resource Participatory Mississippi Philanthropy 119

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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. The Power of Dialogue about Nonprofit Data and Evaluation. Evaluating a Culture.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Foundation 98

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. The technique helps you need to evaluate the ideas. What participatory techniques have you translated from in-person meetings to online meetings successfully?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

It took Tech Networks of Networks almost two years to organize and implement a series of candid dialogues about data and evaluation for grantors and nonprofit grantees, and now it’s complete. Factoring in the nonprofit organization’s size, capacity, and budget – making sure that the demand for data and evaluation is commensurate.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

Getting Closer to Your Community with Participatory Grantmaking Nonprofit organizations such as Maine Initiatives have been using Participatory Grantmaking for years to distribute the decision-making power to people closest to the problem. There are several benefits to adding participatory grantmaking to your funding programs.

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Trend Participatory Philanthropy Grant 97

Google Research AI blog

APRIL 19, 2023

We focus on participatory, culturally-inclusive, and intersectional equity-oriented research that brings to the foreground impacted communities. Community engagement enables us to shift how we incorporate knowledge of what’s most important throughout this pipeline, from dataset curation to evaluation.

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Culture Research Technology Google 120

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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Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

Grounded in a participatory approach, the tool will be designed by WFN members and built by WFN’s data and insights team. It also provides a quantitative baseline to evaluate and build upon equity strategies. Our partnership, however, will create a way for anyone to connect the dots.

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Data Demographics Participatory Aggregator 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Is the evaluation of your program something management needs to assess the performance of your organization as a whole? One of the biggest lessons it learned was the need to set sharp and clear goals at the start.

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Measure Evaluation Foundation Lesson 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. I like to use a combined method.

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Story Data Measure Analysis 124

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My sessions were integrated into the various leadership, visioning process for women’s rights, curriculum development, and evaluation methods modules throughout the week as networked and social media skills were not the main focus. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques.

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Rwanda Social Media Leadership Training 116

Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Nonprofits may lack the technical expertise and staff capacity to evaluate or adopt AI effectively. As Proximate Press highlights in its exploration of participatory philanthropy, collaboration must center the voices and expertise of those closest to the work, emphasizing the importance of co-creation to achieve equity and trust.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). Making Decisions and Getting Consensus. Strategic Dialogue. Organizational Development. Networked Facilitation. Community Organizing. Any many more.

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Facilitation Technique Nonprofit Chart 124

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Ultimately, she realized that the highly participatory process resulted in a robust strategic plan that articulated goals and initiatives through 2015 to stabilize infrastructure, increase participation, improve quality, and encourage innovation. He can be reached at pconnolly@tccgrp.com.

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Open Source Open Case Study Wikipedia 92

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

I want to share a few fabulous evaluation and research studies that have greatly informed my work (and specifically, the development of The Participatory Museum , which is going to the printer this weekend). The evaluation of the first Turkish Living Library , held in 2007 at the Rock for Peace festival in Istanbul.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 16, 2023

We study and develop scalable, rigorous, and evidence-based solutions using data analysis, human rights, and participatory frameworks. We also offer research support to some of our organization’s most challenging efforts, including the 1,000 Languages Initiative and ongoing work in the testing and evaluation of language and generative models.

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Research Impact Google Analysis 111

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. This list should be with you when you are planning out your content and engagement for your social media channels. One thing you will also notice when you review the Upworthy deck is that they also use measurement to improve their content and engagement.

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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 29, 2011

Last month, I learned about a fabulous, simple participatory experiment called “Case by Case” at the San Diego Museum of Natural History that uses visitor feedback to develop more effective object labels. To date, the solution has been to put photos on the walls, pray for funding, and ignore the front-end evaluation bit.

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San Diego Museum History Participatory 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

We will be influenced by what our connections think and information production and distribution will become more participatory. Don’t use conventional evaluation criteria to assessing network impact. The report asks a number of impact questions related to networked citizens and the future.

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Network Report Philanthropy Empowerment 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. This combination of advanced planning and evaluation helps one continuously improve their instructional design. I ask them to generate a list of keep, tweak, and delete.

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Learning Classroom Student Classes 85

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This is a big year for us in naming and evaluating our work. In early 2014, we developed a set of five engagement goals: Relevant, Sustainable, Bridging, Participatory, Igniting. PARTICIPATORY : Invites diverse community members to make meaningful contributions as co-creators, collaborators, and energized constituents.

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Goal Museum Evaluation Arts 48

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. To me, the backlash against participatory and community-centered experiences is not surprising.

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Museum Participatory Arts History 53

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

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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Public Research Participatory Lesson 36

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

According to the Center for Evaluation Innovation’s “Lab for Learning” initiative , “make thinking visible” to cultivate a learning culture. Kellogg Foundation are cultivating cross-sector learning by developing program evaluation curriculums, and hosting forums for nonprofits to exchange lessons and ideas.

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Measure Create Arizona Nonprofit 52

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning – from Karcsig. Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation , about participatory learning agendas. I like to use a combined method.

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Story Data Analysis Measure 74

Google Research AI blog

JULY 20, 2023

Last year we announced that Jigsaw , Google’s incubator for building technology that explores solutions to threats to open societies, leveraged our structured societal context knowledge approach during the data preparation and evaluation phases of model development to scale bias mitigation for their widely used Perspective API toxicity classifier.

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Knowledge Application Articulate Structure 81

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Design to Invite Active Participation Participatory design can be one of the most effective vehicles for developing relationships, building social capital and engaging with community members in museum programs. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Museum Program Community Participatory 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Key is a participatory development process. An evaluation a year later showed that the process was transformational from two perspectives: people had significantly changed their relationships (who they were working with), and they had significantly changed how they understood their work vis-à-vis others’. .

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Map Profit System Guatemala 86

NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

I also did an evaluation of all of our sites to help assess whether or not we are meeting our users'' needs and if any simple improvements could be made to improve their overall user experience. Can you give an example of how you applied what you learned from the 14LCS to your daily work?

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Donation Impact Share NTEN 64

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 ). Brand and reputation monitoring for a nonprofit or foundation. Crisis communication strategy.

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Social Media Channel Media Data 101

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I can't say that any one experience--working on a collage with other visitors, swinging on a hammock, discovering a participatory display for pocket artifacts in the bathroom--directly contributed to increased attendance and giving. They all have in concert, and they build on each other.

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Audience Museum Participatory History 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

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, Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices.

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Social Media Media Social Collaboration 107

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 14, 2021

These program practices include needs assessment, decision-making, program implementation, and evaluation. Asking for beneficiary input on needs assessments and evaluations can show funders the true need for their dollars and demonstrate that the organization is meeting program objectives, noted in " The Eyes of the Beholders.".

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