Candid

MAY 4, 2022

While some funders were already cultivating trust-based and flexible practices before the pandemic, more began to re-think their practices. We also saw significant philosophical changes in how foundations operate.

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Candid

JANUARY 22, 2025

They understand that hearing directly from the people most affected by their workand making changes to their programs and practices based on that feedback increases the impact of their work. Since 2016, Listen4Good has helped more than 1,000 nonprofits, in partnership with 140 funders, to strengthen their client feedback practices.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

Community Fund: A Participatory Grantmaking Case Study , by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative   This case study offers a first-hand look at fostering community collaboration in philanthropy. It outlines best practices and specific activities that funders can employ to safeguard and support their participatory grantmaking decision makers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Without leadership prioritizing equitable practices, class representation suffers in these roles and lessens sector diversity. Nonprofit leaders must model diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices, like recruiting their next board members from different, diverse networks. Leaders should also engage in participatory grantseeking.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. I've often been asked about examples of participatory practice in theater, dance, and classical music, and this report is a great starting point.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization. If fundraisers are so keen on relationships, why weren't they the first into social media and participatory projects on behalf of their organizations?

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Big Duck

MAY 15, 2024

Explore trust-based philanthropy and participatory grantmaking and get insights into different ways nonprofits can work with foundations and funders.

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Philanthropy Participatory Practice Challenge 64

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

" Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS » Most Significant Change (MSC) – "The most significant change (MSC) technique is a form of participatory monitoring and evaluation. It is participatory because many project stakeholders are involved both in deciding the sorts of change to be recorded and in analysing the data.

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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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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 winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Reflective Practice. Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). The book is an extremely practical resource whether you are working on improving your skills or teaching others.

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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! Our first session will set the stage and context for the practices of “Impact Leadership.”

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

Skeptical because Candid is a nonprofit that describes its work ethic and culture as similar to that of the tech sector, which could mean either mission-driven with an innovative mindset, or appropriating the rhetoric of social movements while engaging in extractive practices.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

For more on how to incorporate wellness best practices into your grantmaking organization, check out our blog post, “ Workplace Wellness for Grantmakers and the Nonprofits They Support. ” 2. There are several benefits to adding participatory grantmaking to your funding programs. Participatory grantmaking does require a mindset shift.

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Trend Participatory Philanthropy Grant 97

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Empowering Communities: Participatory Grantmakers Say We Must Go beyond Feedback. Joint Statement of Associations Advancing Equitable Evaluation Practices. From Promise to Practice — Embedding Equity and Inclusion. Bay Area Equity Atlas.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Foundation 98

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. And (don’t forget this bit) if you don’t trust the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

Collaborate through field work and participatory practice. Participatory practice includes the most common strategies: surveys, community meetings, focus groups and informant interviews (Woodford & Preston, 2011).

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Collaboration Effective Nonprofit North Carolina 98

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. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. Documentation of the Visioning Process. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. I hope it opens up a broader conversation about the nuts and bolts of successful participatory projects. Now, after long last, the book is here!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. The first is on a practice level – what should happen next? There are usually two aspects of this.

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Facilitation Technique Ideas Exercise 102

Candid

JANUARY 2, 2025

This report serves as a practical guide for two critical disciplines in one publication: futures and foresight. Our special collections offer deep dives on topics like democracy , climate change , participatory grantmaking , and more. You can help strengthen the sectors collective knowledge and impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Emerging Leaders Playbook Toolkit -The toolkit includes highly practical meeting facilitation “recipes” to help build skills in managing self, teams, and organizational culture.The facilitator agendas are designed for beginner or novice facilitators. The facilitation methods are participatory. Here’s my curated list.

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Facilitation Design Product Template 112

Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. The people at Museums and the Web are on the forefront of web-based innovative museum practice. You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

The report opens with a look at current practices of using networks for citizen-centered social action that are promising for the future. The report doesn’t just leave with current practice, it also covers some scenarios for the future. Seeds of the Future: Connected Citizens Today.

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Network Report Philanthropy Empowerment 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

We do this not only to stay in the spirit of the participatory engagement styles that are now emerging, but also because the findings represent only the present moment in a story that is far from concluding. Nothing is settled about how even the most relevant and impactful advocacy organizations engage constituencies or attracts resources.

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Model Support Nonprofit Social Media 105

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

This is where participatory practice comes in to play. Participatory practice is a concept which means giving voice to those in the community who know the issues best, and then planning and organizing solutions to these issues using the resources of the nonprofit to implement solutions.

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Nonprofit Participatory Leadership Culture 98

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. I also participated in two other sessions, one about communities of practice moderated by Holly Ross, and one on philanthropy.

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Tools that automate routine tasks, like annual grant reporting, create critical efficiencies; they align with alternative grant reporting practices aimed at reducing the administrative burdens on grantees while fostering equity-driven engagement and learning for impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Digital activism is defined by the Meta-Activism Project as “the practice of using digital technology for political and social change.&# She’s been a regular commenter on this blog. Her book is perfect for small nonprofits who are looking for practical and tactical tips and wisdom in developing a fundraising plan.

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Nonprofit Social Media Amazon Museum 119

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Emerging Leaders Playbook Toolkit -The toolkit includes highly practical meeting facilitation “recipes” to help build skills in managing self, teams, and organizational culture.The facilitator agendas are designed for beginner or novice facilitators. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Facilitation Skills System Change 86

Candid

JULY 28, 2022

This has me thinking about other ways the sector can start pairing words with action, like funders going beyond simply talking about “trust-based philanthropy” and actually providing more flexible support or practicing participatory grantmaking. .

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Reflection Philanthropy Conference Participatory 111

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. These methods enable ML practitioners to better ensure diversity in annotation of datasets used to train models, by identifying current barriers and re-envisioning data work practices.

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Culture Research Technology Google 120

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.

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Network Build Social Media Participatory 95

Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. Several said things like, "I was curious to see how this kind of participatory, collaborative approach would work in practice."

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 32

Candid

JULY 5, 2022

Several respondents indicated that their organizations are looking into more equitable, trust-based practices, inspiring cautious optimism that shifts in funder practice will take more permanent hold. Others mentioned returning to the pre-pandemic practices: . “We Top takeaways on FYE 2021 giving and payout .

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