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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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But, monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) frameworks and approaches may not be as objective as they seem. For whom is monitoring, evaluation, and learning being done? Where does the learning go? The practice of participatory evaluation aims to disrupt power dynamics, and to generate knowledge as a result of collaboration.

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Facilitation: The Secret Ingredient for Successful Participatory Decision-Making in Philanthropy

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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? This might include sharing a presentation in advance so people with learning or visual impairments have time for review.

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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. As someone who has been in the nonprofit field 35 years, I can sum up my experience as: ”Remember, it’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer? I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Here’s what I learned.

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Amplify your impact with high-quality listening and feedback: New core principles

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Want to learn more about high-quality listening and feedback? The How We Listen section of your Candid profile as well as Listen4Goods Best Practices guide and the Feedback Quiz can help you reflect in more detail. Share your reflections with your colleagues (and your funders or grantees).

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Digital Nonprofit: A Participatory Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day. Reflection and Takeaways. I used Thiagi’s reflection game, Thirty-Five.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc). Circulations - shaping the flow of media (e.g.