Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

In the nonprofit space, large language models like ChatGPT can support overworked staff that operate with limited resources. AI can also lighten the workload of educators while ensuring students AI literacy. The AI Education Project provides AI-powered resources that streamline lesson planning and integrate AI literacy into classrooms.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Craft Ventures is back for the second round, this time in a participatory role with a group of angel investors, with Base10 Partners and Construct Capital co-leading the Series A. The company is in 10 countries right now, with five languages, and aims to add another 10 languages in coming years as it expands into Latin America and Asia.

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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. Our work advances Responsible AI (RAI) in areas such as computer vision , natural language processing , health , and general purpose ML models and applications.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Its] mission is to make books affordable for every child in India.”

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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. Lack of shared definitions and shared language.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

One of my favorite drawings was the metaphor of being in a foreign country and not being able to speak the language. He defines participatory culture as a culture: 1. Our conversations here in the blogosphere are participatory, although it would be nice to have multimedia conversations.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 18, 2023

This vision is inspired by the rapid emergence of generative AI technologies, such as large language models (LLMs) that power chatbots like Bard , and new generative media models like Google's Imagen , Parti , and MusicLM. As an example, we developed new methods for extracting semantically meaningful structure from natural language prompts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. I thought I’d share a few quick insights and tips that I learned for others who may be preparing for doing tech training internationally and want to use participatory techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. Making accommodations comes down to respectful language and accommodations that require observing and checking in with participants. Respectful language is important. However, the term “Walking Meetings,” is ableist.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. There's a huge difference between the edgy, DIY beauty of Candy Chang 's participatory urban artworks and the dayglow colors, exclamatory language , and preschool fonts of most museum interactives.

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 20, 2023

Bridging the AI problem understanding chasm Bridging the AI problem understanding chasm requires two key ingredients: 1) a reference frame for organizing structured societal context knowledge and 2) participatory, non-extractive methods to elicit community expertise about complex problems and represent it as structured knowledge.

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DataRobot

APRIL 7, 2021

Hood is credited with introducing the term systems biology and he advocates for what he refers to as P4 medicine: predictive, personalized, preventive, and participatory. Most importantly, you could learn one another’s language.”. At 82, he’s still coming up with new ideas and looking for ways to transform healthcare.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. While that was painful for the organizations involved, it also helped force the issue of whether participatory engagement could be core to a strong future business model for each organization or not. didn't mince words.

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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. Since those early years, Global Voices has grown into a vibrant global community of more than 150 active volunteer authors and translators and more than 20 freelance part- time regional and language editors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Much of the current language and practice around capacity development seems to have forgotten the roots of the capacity development movement of the 1980s. We are convinced of the importance of inclusive and participatory design and planning of organizational strengthening interventions.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space.

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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. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. From day 1, I believed that we needed to focus in our first year on creating new participatory events to engage the community.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Here in Barcelona, it's standard to see three languages on labels (Catalan, Spanish, English), and in Scandinavia I've seen as many as six. Even in North America, it's becoming typical to see two languages on the walls. As far as I see, an institution like this could: focus on non-language-based participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Nature of the language in comments: positive, negative, interconnective, expanded, clarified, reinterpreted. Traditional models of authority will probably hold sway in the scholarly arena for 10 to 15 years, while we work out the ways in which scholarly engagement and significance can be measured in new kinds of participatory spaces.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Working for a non profit, I had very few resources, and I didn't speak the local languages well enough to gather the stories alone. During the session , I emphasized the importance of capturing stories, helping other staff learn to do the same, and even incorporating participatory storytelling into the work you do with your beneficiaries.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Working for a non profit, I had very few resources, and I didn't speak the local languages well enough to gather the stories alone. During the session , I emphasized the importance of capturing stories, helping other staff learn to do the same, and even incorporating participatory storytelling into the work you do with your beneficiaries.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I believe in transparency in all language use--whether the words are familiar or new. In early 2014, we developed a set of five engagement goals: Relevant, Sustainable, Bridging, Participatory, Igniting. There are many different forms of engagement with many different outcomes depending on your goals, your project, or your institution."

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. Each room was a diverse mix of voices, perspectives, and language. I lost my voice singing along to songs I don't know in a language I barely speak. I first sensed the difference at the front door. There wasn't one.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. When early feedback indicated users were confused about the submission process, we fine-tuned our language and quickly produced a promo video that distills the complete process in a hilarious 2-minute story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Be aware of what they say, how they say it and body language. Observe and Understand Body Language. According to research, 55% of the message you convey comes from your body language. Here’s a terrific cheat sheet for common body language signals and what they mean. Identify other people’s emotional states.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

As someone who has been a trainer for all these years, one of the things we're trained to do is "read the room." You watch for body language to indicate the level of engagement and whether or not people agree or disagree and encourage them to participate. So, if you're moderating a panel, think of yourself as a giant insect!

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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Achieve

JULY 27, 2017

Include participatory, “you”-centric language (e.g., “Are Use emotive language that shows rather than tells. If you’re still stuck, check out these additional tips: When crafting your belief statement, try starting with “We believe…” and then follow with a clear articulation of what your organization stands for. Are you in?”)

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

If budget allows, run ads both in Asian language publications and general market newspapers/websites. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators. Ensure your call to action and messaging speaks to a wide audience. Avoid too much cultural jargon. Focus on the celebratory, educational aspects.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 5, 2014

We asked Brandt to also count any responses that were "aggressive"--swear words, violent language, etc. design evaluation Museum of Art and History participatory museum usercontent' What simple number has changed your work? Also, a sidenote. Total number across all three talkbacks: 0.

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Participatory grantmaking has been a big part of the Boston’s Women’s Fund since its founding. Through this framing, the young people who participate in their grantmaking have started adopting language that has traditionally been reserved for a different community. “We

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

If you care about how participatory art experiences can shape civic processes, read Bedoya's post. He made a comment on Michael Kaiser's fairly formulaic "great artists lead the nation" post, laying bare the banality of most of the language used to describe and present art experiences to the public.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 9, 2016

This is where you link challenge to engagement through the use of participatory language that: helps individual supporters imagine themselves as part of the solution to the problem; underscores how they are joining others in a cause worth fighting for. Creating an “Opportunity” Narrative for Supporters.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2013

Because 30% of the students in our school district are English language learners (and the majority of those, Latino), we are seeking someone who is bilingual and able to communicate comfortably with kids and adults in Spanish. We see this job as a starting point for someone who is cheerfully obsessed with the future of museum education.

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Forum One

APRIL 21, 2022

Using audience research and even participatory design, where we engage end-users in early-stage design, we help organizations break out of their own internal ways of communicating. Along with language and information architecture, design decisions can help break down and structure content in a way that’s more easily consumable.

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