Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I also had an opportunity to attend a couple of sessions that used participatory facilitation techniques. If you are new to participatory facilitation techniques, use the Spectagram as an opener and use it to better understand skill levels in the room. Here’s what I learned. Spectragram. Next, try provocative statements.

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Candid

APRIL 1, 2025

The field of disaster philanthropy is facing a perfect storm of global crisesconflicts, climate disasters, economic instability, and growing humanitarian needsas disaster relief and humanitarian aid organizations face a changing funding landscape.

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Disaster Philanthropy Community South Dakota 80

Candid

JUNE 9, 2021

Participatory grantmaking [i] is no longer new. To be clear, participatory grantmaking has never been new. One of the first projects I was assigned to after joining Candid (then Foundation Center) was the guide on participatory grantmaking, now a seminal work in the growing body of literature on participatory grantmaking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Global Voices is the leading participatory media room for voices from developing countries around the globe. I've the honor of being involved with the Global Voices on and off for a couple of years. In December 2005, I got to meet Tharum in London at the Global Voices Summit, its annual gathering of the Global Voices Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2005

I met Lucy Hooberman, of BBC R&D at the Global s London Summit where I learned about her pledge on pledgebank. There was a lunchtime presentation of pledgebank).

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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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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms. At People Powered, we recently reviewed and rated the best digital participation platforms , and we have used them to engage our global members in making funding and policy decisions.

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

But, as a result of the global crisis, every responsible funder had to adapt and respond to new needs facing communities due to COVID, and many did so in creative ways. It also explains how the McKnight Foundation is connecting its participatory democracy work with climate justice efforts in historically marginalized communities. .

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Guidelines Philanthropy Participatory Case Study 105

Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

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Resource Issue Philanthropy New Mexico 98

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Nonprofits can post open-call questions on a discussion board and gain insight and assets from countless members of the global community; proximity never even enters the equation. Cultures have always been participatory, long before the Internet, with roots in democratic process, collective decision making, and cooperation for survival.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I first met “Gunner” in 2003 at the NTC Conference in Oakland, CA and participated off and on in Penguin Days expertly facilitated by Gunner and other events like the TechSoup Global Network Summit. I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned.

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

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Community Impact Social Phoenix 123

Candid

JANUARY 2, 2025

This research provides an overview of the effects of industrial food animal production, including the ways it affects people, animals, and ecosystems globally. Our special collections offer deep dives on topics like democracy , climate change , participatory grantmaking , and more.

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Issue Resource Philanthropy Children 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Henry Jenkins made his first official appearance in Second Life visiting the Teen version, known as the "Teen Grid," where the Global Kids Island is hosting an event, A World Fit for Children Festival. s the exicting thing about the work of Global Kids ??? it is grounded in both the virtual space and the real space.

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

Intrigued because as president and CEO of Women’s Funding Network (WFN), the largest global alliance of gender equity funders, I am well aware of persistent gender data gaps that hinder efforts to identify disparities, change systems, and build power. Our partnership, however, will create a way for anyone to connect the dots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

In 2005, we got a chance to meet face-to-face in London at the Global Voices Blogging Summit after I transitioned from being the Cambodia bridge blogger. He shared how he built a global cross-sector movement to support sanitation in developing countries. He was hilarious as he was inspiring.

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Philanthropy Impact Cambodia Learning 77

Candid

MAY 4, 2022

The COVID-19 crisis has shined a spotlight on the value of philanthropy and, for this reason, many foundation representatives believe society at large will expect philanthropy to address global distress in the future. In addition to addressing the inequality gap, ensuring global equitable access to COVID-19 has become a moral responsibility.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The book looks at how ICT can help solve global poverty issues in a range of fields, including disaster relief, health education, micro finance, and education. It is filled with great examples and stories from around the world. .&# 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon. Mary Joyce is one of the thought leaders in the field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

In addition to Zoetica, implementation partners include SMEX Beirut , TechSoup Global , and Meedan directly, plus a network of in-country teams and training partners. Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies.

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Network Build Social Media Participatory 95

Google Research AI blog

MARCH 16, 2023

The team’s mission is to examine socioeconomic and human rights impacts of AI, publish foundational research, and incubate novel mitigations enabling machine learning (ML) practitioners to advance global equity. This is a research challenge for the field of ML in general and one that is central to our team.

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Research Impact Google Analysis 111

Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. has potential for global meetings, public educational events with participation, and remote engagement via webcam. Anyone who uses the designated tag on Twitter automatically becomes a part of the ongoing global conversation on that topic of interest.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Join us for a discussion and exploration of how social media are being used to accelerate our transition to a global sustainable culture. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. The creation and communication of this knowledge occurs in social networks of relationships, empowered by social media. Rob Reed - Max Gladwell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

How do you devise a future strategy for a diffuse Internet-based global movement? 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.

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Open Source Open Case Study Wikipedia 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

I’ve been following it for a while now and it is very inspiring on many different levels. The laboratory gives Greenpeace and its partners a space to design, test, iterative, and roll out new strategies and techniques for participatory campaigns or what has been called “People Powered.”

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Journal Learning Change Social 103

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. We use a multi-method approach with qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods to critically examine and shape the social and technical processes that underpin and surround AI technologies.

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Culture Research Technology Google 120

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

This week at the Packard Foundation, I had the opportunity to meet Steve Waddell whose research focuses on Global Action Networks. Key is a participatory development process. A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building.

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Map Profit System Guatemala 86

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

When the global pandemic hit, Russell d’Sa was running product at Medium and recognized early on that with everyone working from home, the company’s culture was impacted, affecting a lot of the interaction between employees. So much about becoming friends at work underpins how you ultimately collaborate.”.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

Before the global pandemic, intergenerational poverty and entrenched patterns of inequality dampened the future livelihoods of millions of children and their families across the globe. Established in 2015, CRUS is an independent global grantmaking sister organization to UK-based Comic Relief, which was founded in 1985.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Our innovative development project has been selected as a finalist in the Changemakers "Ending Global Slavery" competition by a prestigious panel of judges, from over 200 entries world wide. We understand that we are very close to winning the award and desperately need your help voting for us!

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Cambodia Children Project Community 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Amira Achouri, from an NGO in Tunisia, observed, “As the communications landscape gets denser, more complex, and more participatory, the networked population is gaining greater access to information, more opportunities to engage in public speech, and an enhanced ability to undertake collective action.

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Tunisia Reflection Social Media NGO 105

Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Facilitating personal bonds between local producers, consumers, and suppliers can increase resiliency in periods of global supply chain disruption while cutting the carbon footprint of shipping. A handful of America’s largest financial corporations are also leading investors in global fossil fuel extraction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Yesterday was the fourth Giving Tuesday , a global day of community-driven philanthropy. Global Giving did a creative campaign to encourage people to share why they give. Thank you Henry Timms, Aaron Sherinian, and the many others around the world who have made Giving Tuesday and the notion of giving back a global event.

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Philanthropy Gift Participatory Charity 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment. It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language.

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Facilitation Train Training International 50

Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2018

Last week, I had the great honor of launching the OFBYFOR ALL global initiative as the opening keynote speaker at MuseumNext in London. We hope this project sparks a set of tools AND a global movement. Without them, without you, there will be no global movement. I hope you enjoy it. I tried to do a great job, but it felt safe.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Interesting WorldChanging post, Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine. Early registration deadline is Nov. Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi. We Inspire Grant : One year of creative services to one U.S. nonprofit (valued up to $75,000 ).

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