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EveryAction
JUNE 21, 2023
Why LGBTQ+ advocacy is always-on from here on It’s more important than ever for LGBTQ+ organizations to effectively advocate on behalf of LGBTQ+ people. While there’s often increased attention on issues affecting the community during Pride month, meaningful and lasting change happens when advocacy happens year-round.
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[Breaking News] An Extraordinary Funding Opportunity For Nonprofits To Preserve Local Journalism
Bloomerang
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
Press Forward seeks to reverse the dramatic decline in local news that has coincided with an increasingly divided America and weakening trust in institutions. Around 2,200 local newspapers have closed since 2005, resulting in 20 percent of Americans living in “news deserts” with little to no reliable coverage of important local events.
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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 9, 2021
Breaking news that communicates the story of your mission and programs. Breaking news works well on all social media (especially if it is good news), but it performs exceptionally well on LinkedIn. For example, the International Fund for Animal Welfare shared the good news that zero rhinos were poached in 2020.
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How to Communicate Meaningfully with Nonprofit Supporters in an Election Year
Media Cause
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
Explore Media Cause experts’ top five communication tips to consider as you roll out your advocacy , fundraising , and engagement strategies during an election year. Remember, as you navigate the news cycle and other big issues, they shouldn’t take away from the importance of your work as a nonprofit. Then, rinse and repeat.
The Five Building Blocks of a Digital Advocacy Campaign, Part 1: Tell an Impactful Story
Media Cause
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Coming from a background in community organizing and public policy — specifically in the anti-rape movement — I understand the importance of effective messaging in advocacy campaigns. At Media Cause, we conceptualize advocacy in that same vein: It’s about shifting the balance of power. Identify Your Own Story .
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10 Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 24, 2020
First, blogging allows your nonprofit to have a consistent stream of new content use in your e-newsletter and share on social media which increases traffic to your website and awareness of your nonprofit’s brand. 2) Advocacy CTA on the Union of Concerned Scientists blog. 3) Maximize your blog’s sidebar.
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Join us! Countdown to Election Day: The road to victory starts HERE
M+R
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Read time: 2 minutes We don’t have to tell you the news is heavy these days, and collectively we are anxious about global violence, threats to reproductive freedom and voting access and LGBTQIA rights and crumbling democracy.
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NCOA Gets $8M Gift From Scott
The NonProfit Times
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
based advocacy group, which announced the gift today. Ultimately, NCOA was given notice in December that it could share the news discreetly with board members ahead of Scott’s post and began to plan the process of how best to use the funds to accelerate its impact.
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How Successful Nonprofits Invest, and Reinvest, in their Online Presence
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 8, 2019
In 2017, Race Forward merged with the Center for Social Inclusion to become the nation’s largest research, advocacy and services organization devoted to racial justice. Race Forward’s digital footprint now includes four main properties, including Colorlines , a daily news site. The environment is always changing.
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Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy
Non Profit Quarterly
APRIL 20, 2023
Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation. Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon.
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Weekly update from PND
Candid
DECEMBER 17, 2021
A weekly update with the latest news from PND. The investments include a $160 million low-rate loan from Amazon’s Housing Equity Fund to fill finance gaps and preserve more than thirteen hundred affordable units at the Barcroft Apartment community, located near Amazon's new headquarters campus in Arlington. Amazon to invest $161.5
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Nonprofit Technology News: Help for Charities to Develop Mobile Giving Capacity
Tech Soup
AUGUST 25, 2014
Our lead story in this issue of TechSoup’s Nonprofit Technology News is the creation of the Mobile Giving Alliance that will help charities develop their mobile giving. The new project is called the Mobile Giving Alliance. Facebook’s Problematic News Feeds. Do you have some NPTech news you’d like to report?
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Great reads from around the web on January 26th
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 26, 2011
Social Media: A Bubble About to Burst – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – "Are your nonprofit staffers addicted to social media? The only question: Is it a mere glitch or a natural extension of Apple’s policy that is generally indifferent to nonprofits and philanthropy?
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Providing education for incarcerated students
M+R
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
We would focus on promoting research and elevating awareness about the benefits of postsecondary education in prison and the need for incarcerated people to access Pell Grants, all while trying to change state policies to provide more financial support and generate momentum for federal action. Two years in, we expanded our focus to the U.S.
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What counts as racial equity funding?
Candid
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
In 2018, Candid created a website to track racial equity funding, news, and research reports. service delivery, research, advocacy). This funding is awarded to programs or organizations working to change systems, often through movement building, policy work, and rights-based approaches. . Tracking racial equity funding .
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4 helpful tips for communication during a health crisis
Nimble AMS
MARCH 22, 2020
Keep your members up to date on your association’s response, including your office work procedures, events calendar and any other necessary news. With many businesses implementing work from home policies to help flatten the curve with this virus, re-enforce your association’s value in this new work from home environment.
Need a copy editor? Look in the mirror
M+R
JULY 10, 2023
You probably spend a lot of time thinking about your issue space, and closely following the news, and Being Online. They might not get breaking news alerts on their phone. Most of the time, you don’t need a policy briefing in order to make sense of the call to action. Does this sound or look like a policy briefing?
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The impact of COVID-19 on civil society, part two
Candid
APRIL 13, 2021
We hope this information will be useful in a multitude of ways, from ongoing advocacy efforts to capturing the sector’s story to helping local leaders build greater resiliency. News from Turkey does offer a glimmer of hope. This blog presents several common insights generated through these surveys.
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The Nonprofit Email Newsletter How To
Pamela Grow
MARCH 10, 2021
You may be tired of a story, but chances are good that it’s new to your donor. The story you use in your May e-news can be used in your April fundraising campaign. If yours is a social justice or advocacy organization, remember that I am not a policy wonk. Repurpose, repurpose, repurpose. Keep It Simple Sweetheart.
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Great reads from around the web on August 24th
Amy Sample Ward
AUGUST 24, 2012
Whether you’re introducing a change in ownership, new staff, policy change, technical update, or something else, community members sometimes resist change. How to Prepare Your Community for a Major Change « The Community Manager – "Change: it’s the one constant in life.
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New and Improved Data Visualization Tool: Maps for Media Funding
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 5, 2016
It encompasses a vast array of activities from developing mobile phone apps to launching advocacy campaigns to strengthening the policies and infrastructures involved in media creation, transmission and access. Media Access and Policy. Journalism News and Information. Telecommunications Infrastructure.
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Forum One Wins 7 W³ Awards!?
Forum One
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. It advocates for policies to ensure equitable access to high-quality services. ??Forum
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Forum One Wins 7 W³ Awards!
Forum One
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. It advocates for policies to ensure equitable access to high-quality services. ??Forum
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Advocacy & Facebook Political Ads: What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know
Connection Cafe
AUGUST 13, 2018
If you use Facebook, you probably have noticed how the news feed presents political or issue-related ads. foreign policy. What’s up with Facebook Political Ads? In addition to designating the ad as “sponsored”, political and issue-related ads have an info icon which expands to display the organization that paid for the ad. environment.
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Case Study: How Human Rights Watch Leverages Employee Personal Brands on Twitter
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 24, 2015
The organizational strategy is to impact policy change. Policy makers, another target audience, were also using Twitter as a communications channel. Nadim Houry , Deputy News Director, Middle East. Have an internal communications channel to keep everyone up to date on new content, hashtags, features, or techniques.
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New on SSIR: Effects of Joining the Conversation
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 4, 2010
The 30 participating organizations in the report are members of the State Fiscal Analysis Initiative, a group of independent, nonprofits with a shared commitment to responsible budget and tax policies. Joining the conversation is incredibly important if these organizations expect to change policy and change minds.
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Care2 Impact Prize Awarded to Jamie Biggar of Canadian organization Leadnow
Care2
APRIL 15, 2013
Major congratulations to Jamie Biggar of Leadnow ( www.leadnow.ca ) for winning the 2013 Care2 Impact Prize for his outstanding impact on online advocacy and fundraising. Biggar’s background is in the youth climate movement and large-scale online and offline collaboration to develop policy and campaigns.".
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Tech Soup
JUNE 16, 2014
Innovations in the sharing economy often look like they provide for the public good, and they certainly are the exciting trend to watch as we see news of many "sharing" companies climb high with venture capital and enormous valuations. Blurred Policy Lines and the Downsides of Sharing.
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New Research Findings: Advocacy Groups More Trusted - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop
Care2
JUNE 17, 2008
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31 The CNN Lesson: There Is No Hiding on The Real-Time Web
Care2
MARCH 20, 2013
What do news organizations like CNN and health advocacy organizations like the Susan G. They are examples of organizations that have been caught in the middle of a firestorm and don’t have the necessary policies in place to manage an online crisis immediately after it erupts. Komen Foundation have in common?
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78 Join Care2 for Another Internet Advocacy Roundtable! - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop
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MAY 3, 2007
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Successful Organizations On Twitter: Wellstone Action - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop
Care2
APRIL 22, 2009
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The Essentials of Online Advocacy Begin With Email - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop
Care2
MAY 8, 2008
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Networked Capacity Building: Finish Line Grantees Social Media Training
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 16, 2011
We have designed and been delivering “ Friending the Finish Line ” with the goals of having organizations create an integrated social media strategy into their overall communications plan and as a way to accelerate the progress of their children’s health care advocacy work and create a peer networked learning community.
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Join Care2 for Another Internet Advocacy Roundtable! - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop
Care2
MAY 3, 2007
57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Thanks for posting it! Ill be sure to attend.
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The Essentials of Online Advocacy Begin With Email - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop
Care2
MAY 9, 2008
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Converting New Activists into Donors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop
Care2
JUNE 16, 2009
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APIs for Nonprofits 101: How to Share Data Between Systems
Tech Soup
JANUARY 27, 2014
Your nonprofit is getting ready to lead an important advocacy campaign: a key bill central to your mission has just been introduced in the state legislature, but the process of getting it passed is fraught with uncertainty. Using APIs for Political Advocacy. Let’s take the first example above: political advocacy.
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Five Tips to Engaging New Online Activists - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop
Care2
JUNE 30, 2009
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40 Social Media Webinar on June 10th - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop
Care2
JUNE 4, 2009
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28 How Sticky is Facebook? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop
Care2
JUNE 13, 2009
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Tips for Riding the Media Wave to Increase Nonprofit Support
Connection Cafe
MAY 5, 2016
This is one area where traditional nonprofits can take a cue from advocacy groups to tap into issues that are already top of mind for the public. Advocacy groups often rely on the news cycle to drum up support and activate their constituents. But this doesn’t mean that you have to be consuming news all the time.
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