ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

Woodford and Preston list four main outcomes to validate stakeholder participation: helping organizations make informed decisions, facilitating stakeholder commitment and support, stakeholder education about the organization, and successful program implementation. Collaborate through field work and participatory practice.

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Collaboration North Carolina Effective Participatory 98

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. We continue to implement this open feedback cycle, as it helps us ensure that HF’s fundamental approach remains rooted in trust and connection.

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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. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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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. We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. In past days of in-person training, I presented a slide deck in front of the class and distributed a paper course reader that students could hold in their hands and take notes on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. You can build your resilience by listening to a lecture!

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Lecture Classroom Experiment Utah 93

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. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. Nothing like first-person accounts. I use this design checklist to identify interactive exercises.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. I asked each person to fill in cells in a matrix. When equity is prioritized, the question of data is extended to include what data can help us to notice barriers and opportunities of greater access and inclusion.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. The workshop was focused on personal resilience and self-care based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and was part of series of workshops on resilience. I made this part of the instructions. … Read More.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

During the first week of January , I use the quiet time for three New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead and identify professional growth areas. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful. These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. The design challenge was: How do we come up with concrete tools, frameworks and methods for helping people better understand and adopt network systems leadership? What was your experience?

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Design Course Leadership Network 107

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

It was held in Newcastle in the north of England, and about 70 folks from around the world (but mostly Europe) came to play, learn, make stuff, and help each other work out challenges inherent in trying to make risky ideas happen. Thank you to everyone who came and helped co-create an exciting experimental event in a beautiful city.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I was in San Antonio this week to facilitate an interactive master class for 300 nonprofits that was hosted by the San Antonio Nonprofit Council that hosts The Big Give, a very successful local giving day. It starts with ideas and brainstorming.

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Social Media San Antonio Content Strategy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. Like any other skill you want to improve, it helps to get a baseline assessment of your listening skills. Full attention listening: Giving full focus and attention to the other person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. He called them “Consequential Strangers,” and they can help you out. 1: Broadband Internet (Expansion of broadband). #2: 2: Mobile Usage. #3:

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Social Media Digital Mobile Trend 117

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program. The assessment helps educate people about the symptoms of burnout before it becomes too late.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The goal is to train over 150-250 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Morocco, and other countries and help them put social media skills into practice. Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. Some Connection Points: Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

Each element of the conference facilitates a different mode for engaging the content as well as fellow participants. Also great to see old friends like Mark Horvath, who helped run the mic. I'm always up for a conference that has been designed to be participatory and offers a creative format. The description: The !deation

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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.”

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Social Media Channel Data Media 101

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Many channels, both personal and professional. Sustainability depends on knowledge; social media facilitate knowledge production, processing and distribution. Communities; twitter, rss, threads; in person; by affinities; passions. Low barrier to entry. Jon Lebkowsky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One?

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The tours are pricey, personalized, NOT affiliated with the museums involved… and very, very popular. For the first time in a long time, I was personally interacting and engaging with the museum, the collection, and with complete strangers in a way that highlighted the art. I think of us guides as “museum personal trainers”.

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Museum Interview New York Arts 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Our job as organizational communicators lies in trying to facilitate a larger conversation by providing the means for people to share, perhaps initiate conversations, and highlight the great work and thoughts of others. I began our talk today with my personal nonprofit history. But we cannot use these tools to dictate the movement.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard History 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

They appointed a person in the room as the "Backchannel Advocate" and the speaker would ask them verbalize questions from the backchannel. Jeffrey Veen calls this person an ombudsman for the audience. How can we play further with the distance between those up there - on the podium and those in the audience?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. They want your help, but they are also offering up what they are doing for the rest of us to explore. I am an impatient person. Tags: participatory museum professional development.

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Slides Process Video Open 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

Unless your organization is tiny, staff members can't have personal relationships with every user--nor, ethically, might they want to. Make room for personal expression and ownership--both by staff and audience members. These kinds of indicators help me understand that I can be part of a community by getting involved.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking? Facilitators have many superpowers, and like superheroes, many of those powers may be invisible to others.

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Participatory Facilitation Philanthropy Skills 93

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit. The cards were a brilliant touch--they helped structure the day, supported simple prioritizing and sorting activities, and gave participants with a tangible, reusable take-home.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A platform for museum staff to serve as facilitators of safe spaces for difficult conversations? There is only one difference: the Books in the Living Library are human beings, and the Books and readers enter into a personal dialogue. Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. well, you know.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

The point of this experiment is to play with design conditions that support both facilitated and unfacilitated engagement with strangers. I believe that focusing specifically on the social capacity of an object, rather than its content or interpretation, yields new design techniques for museum exhibits and other participatory spaces.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2007

This week, I'm hoping you can help solve a mystery on a similar topic. These "partially limiting barriers" are successful in other venues as well--most notably online, where it is personal anonymity rather than temporal transience that makes the interaction between strangers feel controlled. But I'm not so sure of this.

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Museum Participatory Teen Game 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2007

Rock climbing (safely) is a two-person activity. One person holds the rope, the other ascends the rock. The gym staff aren’t offering instruction or serving as users’ partners; instead, they facilitate connections among the users. Make explicit invitations in label copy for multi-person exhibits.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I want to see more multi-person exhibits, more prompts for discussion about content, more tools to facilitate connecting wtih other visitors whose interests are similar or in some way useful to your own. By the standard set by a culture that judges MySpace as dangerous, perhaps these in-person interactions are even MORE dangerous.

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Museum Myspace Facilitation Social Network 20

sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

The person who coined the term “cat herding” may have been a grants manager. Here are five ways grants management software can help you save time and better manage your funding programs. Free Resource 3 Ways Dashboards Help Grantmakers Make Sense of Their Data Download Now 4. This saves time for both the grantee and your team.

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Grant Software Management Application 81

Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: YOU” reminds me of when Time named “you” the person of the year. A person is randomly designated as the facilitator for a 15 minute discussion on each of the topics in the envelope. The VSA has replaced their keynotes with structured group dialogue. My first reaction was skepticism.

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