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Funding Services AND Advocacy: The Smart Choice for Grantmakers

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Funding Services AND Advocacy: The Smart Choice for Grantmakers – guest post by Aaron Dorfman, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy. Some grantmakers shy away from funding advocacy, preferring instead to fund direct services. NFP described an advocacy approach that incorporated both grass-tops and bottom-up advocacy.

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Fundraising Ideas to Reverse the Trend of Declining Email Response Rates

NetWits

It contains online fundraising, advocacy, email, social, and mobile results from 55 U.S.-based based national nonprofits in 2012. One of the eye-catching findings from the study was the steep decline in the performance of fundraising emails in 2012. percent to 4.5 percent over the past year. What’s to blame?

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How Nonprofits can Use Analytics with Advocacy

Connection Cafe

Analytic Activism is a book about how advocacy organizations can make better decisions in the digital age. I wrote the book because it seemed like something was missing from the conversation about digital advocacy and activism. Most of the research on digital advocacy is focused on the new types of speech we now see online.

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Key facts, figures, and trends among U.S. labor unions

Candid

labor unions based on Candid’s data and discuss trends and opportunities for future research. This strategy, known as “bargaining for the common good,” was a central part of the Chicago Teachers Union’s (CTU) approach during their 2012 strike. A Provocation for further discussion and research. Unions by the numbers.

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Research Friday: The Results are In - State of the Sector 2012

ASU Lodestar Center

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. Thanks to you, we received a record 4,607 responses nationwide to our 2012 State of the Sector Survey, more than doubling responses from last year. NFF provides financing, consulting, and advocacy services to nonprofits and funders nationwide. As part of a.

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Rolling with the Political Punches: Advocacy in an Election Year

Connection Cafe

Blackbaud just released a study on G iving in an Election Year that showed fascinating results from the 2012 election. The study found that political donors who donated in 2012 gave more to nonprofits in 2012 than they did the year before. Here are 3 tips for running a successful advocacy campaign during an election year: 1.

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Some Reflections about Social Data in the Cloud from the Social Innovation Summit 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The agenda includes discussion and presentation of the innovative projects and approaches and the challenges of scaling social change. The audience includes top corporate CSR executives, venture capital investors, government leaders, foundations, nonprofits, and social entrepreneurs.