sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Lots of grantmakers are intrigued by participatory grantmaking. Participatory grantmaking invites to decision-making tables people who have historically been excluded. Why Would a Grantmaker Choose a Participatory Grantmaking Approach? So, what does participatory grantmaking look like in practice? Those at the top decide.

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Participatory Grant Foundation Philanthropy 140

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” ” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators. We opted for the latter.

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Participatory Digital Nonprofit Facilitation 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

In 2010, I launched the Networked Nonprofit with a flurry of speaking and training gigs literally around the world, while also designing and facilitating many workshops, peer learning groups, and coaching grantees as Visiting Scholar.

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Learning Pakistan Facilitation Haiti 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

If you want to a chance to win, leave a comment on this post sharing something that you’d like to learn about Impact Leadership or some wisdom from your experience about practicing impact leadership! One of our first design tasks as facilitators was for all of us to get clear on what we mean by “Impact Leadership.”

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Registration Leadership Impact Change 130

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. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes learning. Have you ever had to do a room hack?

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Learning Lecture Experiment Classroom 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. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes peer learning. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion.

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Learning Classroom Student Classes 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Year in Review During the first two months of 2020, I taught workshops and facilitated digital transformation innovation labs in London and Warsaw. On the other hand, I have learned a lot about ways to make remote work better and the joys of staying home. Keeping Resilient in 2021.

Nonprofit 148

Nonprofit Journal Facilitation Reflection 148

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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Participatory Arts Learning Music 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Needless to say, I learned a lot! Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. I facilitated a session that introduced networks, networking, and the Networked NGO.

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Rwanda Social Media Leadership Training 116

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. Our track was one of three tracks for participants to dive deep into a topic and learn from peers through dialogue. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 127

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. It does require a learning curve to master in addition to the technique. One technique that I often employ is called “ Dot Voting ” or “ Visual the Vote.”

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Online Participatory Technique Method 115

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 post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work.

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Participatory Arts Audience Museum 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques. Not only is the content superb, but I also observed and took notes about some excellent participatory facilitation techniques. The IFCAsia delivered on all the reasons why someone should attend.

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Philanthropy Impact Cambodia Learning 77

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 Arts Blackboard 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. The program is called Tech2Empower and you can learn more about it here. ” 4) Avoid.

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Facilitation Training Train International 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Last month, I participated in a Design Thinking Lab with network leadership practitioners convened by the Leadership Learning Community. The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. The questions: What do you hope to learn today?

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Leadership Network Design Course 107

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. Vi is unquestionably an expert on Seattle's Chinatown and on the building we were touring, but she repeatedly shared information she'd learned from visitors.

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Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. Depending on the number of people in your group, there are different ways to facilitate the report out. I facilitated a verbal report out, while I had someone act as “scribe” and type in the responses on different sticky notes. Design must comes first.

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Facilitation Virtual Arts Participatory 50

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. Plus it is always a pleasure for me to observe “Gunner’s&# facilitation techniques (I learn so much).

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Global Network Participatory Netsquared 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning. Do numbers only matter? Do numbers only matter?

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Story Data Measure Analysis 124

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. Be sure to watch their space for more! Presentation.

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Community Impact Social Phoenix 123

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

While MuseumCamp is an unusual event, I''ve learned a lot from it about designing workshops, charrettes, and meetings--pretty much any gathering where you want to encourage playful, creative, risky thinking in groups. Here are five key lessons I''ve learned about making this kind of event work. Tag Team the Facilitation.

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Facilitation Professional Learning Unconference 36

Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

For example, the guide shares how savvy education funders are considering the impact of learning loss on students who every year miss more and more days of instruction due to the climate crisis. Invest in, support, and learn from intermediary organizations, many of which can help you adopt participatory approaches to grantmaking. .

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Guidelines Philanthropy Participatory Case Study 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

I’ve always benefited from learning from colleagues who do nonprofit technology training and capacity but often we come from the same perspective. Lack of platforms/resources to facilitate innovations. I’m particularly interested in these three ideas specifically that revolve around reflection, learning, and sharing.

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Global Network Change Social 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Last week I was lucky enough to attend the Google Impact AI Summit that shared the learning and case studies from Google AI Challenge winners. The Summit included presentations, panel discussions, and a “science fair” where we could see demos from and talk with the winners. I learned about the People + AI Guidebook.

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Impact Design Google Participatory 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Note from Beth: Since the concept of working in Networks is can be hard to explain to newcomers, learning from case studies, stories, and examples can be illuminating. The design was to share this learning was amazing. Online input was supplemented with face-to-face local meetings around the world. ” Paul Connolly.

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Open Source Open Case Study Wikipedia 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’ll be sharing insights on my blog as the project unfolds — it is going to be a rich opportunity for learning because it is a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. This allowed each of us to share what we’d like others to know – what we bring to the project and what we’d like to learn.

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Network Build Social Media Participatory 95

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. The importance of experimentation and learning from failure. I facilitated a session in the afternoon which was designed for peer interaction given the topic.

Social Media 117

Social Media Digital Mobile Media 117

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I just received my copy of Henry Jenkin's Convergence Culture which has been on my list ever since I heard him speak at the launch of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Learning and Media Initiative. s possible through distance learning??? Hat tip to Alan Levine/CogdogBlog for the transcription and facilitating the audio.

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Second Life Participatory Life Discussion 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

deation Conference is intentionally formatted to create a rich learning and sharing experience. Each element of the conference facilitates a different mode for engaging the content as well as fellow participants. I'm always up for a conference that has been designed to be participatory and offers a creative format.

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Conference Long Beach Slides Participatory 86

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Description: Sustainability requires doing more with less, constantly learning how to get more out of every pound of material and watt of energy. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Sustainability depends on knowledge; social media facilitate knowledge production, processing and distribution. Low barrier to entry.

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Social Media Media Social Social Network 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

I met Mazarine Treyz 3 years ago in Portland, Oregon when I facilitated a one-day social media and nonprofit workshop for the Meyer Memorial Trust. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon. We were lucky enough to have Nedra stop by the Zoetica Salon and share some thoughts about how to measure social media outcomes.

Nonprofit 119

Nonprofit Social Media Amazon Museum 119

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. Facilitator bits. You did great.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Patricia Patrizi, Elizabeth Heidi Thompson, Julia Coffman, and Tanya Beer, “ Eyes Wide Open: Learning as Strategy Under Conditions of Complexity and Uncertainty.” I got to facilitate a deep dive with a dozen folks and here are the takeaways from the discussion. Here’s a blog post by Rachel Dearborn describing the process.

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Social Media Channel Media Data 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. This takes some facilitation. And, in the case of Twitter Vote Report Twitter hashtags have been used for real-time participatory democracy. What are the lessons learned for using them effectively?

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Twitter Foundation Effective Nonprofit 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. I know that might seem old fashioned, but being a trainer and facilitator and in the room with social change leaders is what inspires and energizes me.

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Professional Nonprofit Journal Reflection 0

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

But that business model requires experienced staff who know how to empower people, facilitate meaningful participation, respond to community issues and interests, and ignite learning. They are here to be inspired, to get connected, to learn, to dream, to share. What is the metaphor for participatory arts? It''s not cheap.

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Journal Community Museum Participatory 54