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. Justice over greatness: A new year’s reflection. Here are 6 ways it could go.

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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

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Internet connectivity in this very rural area was a challenge – which is why the last few days of the training sessions were held in Kigali so participants could get some hands-on practice. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Raymond raised some good reflective questions about backchannels that are still very relevant four years later as back channels goe more mainstream and search for best practices on how to incorporate them into our conferencing experience. One of the reflections. Robert Scoble calls this taking a twitter break.

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

I’ve always dreamed of accessing a diverse network of people who do nonprofit capacity across different disciplines or what Nancy White has described as “ learning from adjacent practices.” Dearth of resources/cultural practices around curriculum sharing. Lack of platforms through which to network laterally.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2025

This report serves as a practical guide for two critical disciplines in one publication: futures and foresight. It is intended to spark collaborative visioning, planning, action, and reflection as we all work to ensure a bright future for all children. The state of diversity in the U.S. nonprofit sector by Candid.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design. Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. I've purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

The question forced me to reflect on my experience last summer. I had mentioned the NpTech Tag Summary - and how practicing that every week makes you better at it. I just discovered a new site called " Great Nonprofits " another participatory philanthropy site.

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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. 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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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. What opportunities for reciprocity?

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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. Like findings from last year’s survey , increases in giving were not necessarily reflective of higher payout.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

This allowed us to experience the whole design process – design a new wallet – and reflect on it. Which comes from the Participatory Facilitator’s Guide. It refers to the part of a participatory process where you know the problem or consensus won’t come easily. You might want to groan, but you need to keep on going.

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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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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. I showed up at the IMA expecting innovation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

At this one-day founder-focused summit, which takes place in San Francisco on April 14, you’ll learn the best practices across the range of essential startup building skills from seasoned founders, investors and a plethora of subject-matter experts. Seriously, there’s no hype here.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise. The conversation about community engagement at AAM has evolved, and this year, it had a distinctly social practice/art bent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. To me, the backlash against participatory and community-centered experiences is not surprising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

"I have been thinking about six practices around tool adoption. This has been bubbling in the back of my mind, but looking at nonprofits and adoption of social media tools or what I started to call the participatory nonprofit. It is when the organization really embraces the technology and integrates it into its practice.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

That practice makes it second nature to bring the same approach into client work. The “I’m Determined” website focused on better addressing its audiences’ needs through a participatory design process. AA compliance and incorporate best practices for accessibility.” Shifting timelines: Inclusion begins in the planning stages.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. In this post, I hope to bring out some of the complexities of the idea of restoration as it occurs within an experimental museum supporting both a collection and the practices of emerging artists.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Unconference sessions , featuring topics as diverse as "playing an ARG" (with real labyrinth adventures ), "engaging visitors who were dragged to the museum," and "measuring and defining success in participatory projects." Facilitator bits. Always start and end with something creative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The skills that we are focusing on are “networked leadership” skills both online and offline and working with self and working with others. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions. Use reflective listening skills and clear communication to adjust. Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

I am the director of a non-profit that promotes open museum practices, and we are in midst of launching a free service for arts organizations: a web site that permits any museum to create a participatory exhibit space and social network centered on the museum's collections. I have a some thoughts I'll add in a separate post.

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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. The uniqueness of the Impact Lab’s goals is its multidisciplinary approach and the diversity of experience, including both applied and academic research.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

What you see here are a few notes that reflect my individual experience. As far as I can ascertain, this series was the first in which grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients came together in equal numbers and met as peers for reflective structured dialogue. What is the heart of the matter for grantors and grantees?

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Candid

MAY 15, 2024

Our approach to grantmaking developed organically over a period of five years as we learned from grassroots organizations and adapted our practices to meet their needs. To make the process transparent and participatory, we also asked other values-aligned organizations for feedback on our initial framework before putting it into action.

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In practice, two critical factors determine the success of a transparency artifact, the ability to identify the information decision-makers use and the establishment of processes and guidance needed to acquire that information. For example, we've adapted Evaluation Gaps in ML practices into a worksheet for more complete dataset documentation.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A brand is more than a logo and a website; it’s the story that reflects your values and vision, guides every touchpoint and communication, and sparks connection and emotion. Brands are participatory, so you create your own brand story at launch, but others define it as you grow.

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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. If you have facilitated training internationally and used participatory facilitation techniques, what tips or insights do have to offer?

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. I’ve shared all materials ahead of time to encourage participants to check whether they can access them, and so that participants have a chance to review the materials and reflect on them.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Our Museum started with a clear-eyed assessment of community engagement funding and practices across the UK. Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. Dr. Bernadette Peters' provocative 2011 report, Whose Cake is it Anyway? didn't mince words.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests. This is both an issue of practice and of media coverage. The impact was dramatic.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Several artists offer surprising insights into making participatory projects appealing to visitors. Frequently, we get stuck on developing participatory projects or events that serve as many people as possible.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. Reflective time is important, especially when your work is hectic. It is this community--you--that I want to reflect a bit more on.

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