Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

They work with people to achieve shared goals—and, in fact, they rely on participation from their communities just as much as those communities rely on their services. We need to make the case for advocacy It’s encouraging to see that people trust nonprofits to mend social divides and improve key issues.

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EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

The Campaign Workshop is an award-winning political consulting firm that specializes in targeted communications, digital, mail, and video for advocacy and political campaigns. A full-service marketing and creative agency, Media Cause helps nonprofits accelerate their impact. Get in touch at TheCampaignWorkshop.com !

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

If your nonprofit does advocacy, you know that with this work, there are almost always consistent patterns of crisis management leading to later periods of denouement and down time. Advocacy is a long-term calling.  Check out our last installment here! Here’s what they said. Learn more at MESG.marketing !

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Candid

JUNE 3, 2024

Direct services. SAGE (Advocacy and Services for LGBTQ+ Elders) is the only national organization dedicated to addressing issues related to LGBTQ+ people and aging. A five-person team of data and evaluation professionals gather, analyze and disseminate data to assess the effectiveness of SAGE’s programs and services.

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

The Pet Advocacy Network meets members at industry events to solicit feedback and share what Pet Advocacy is doing to showcase the industry and its issues. And if your organization has added member services, updated its governance, or launched new services and are seeing great results, I want to hear your story!

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The organization is active in government advocacy and technical standards, conducts national and regional educational networking conferences, and produces the Furnaces North America business exposition every other year. Modernizing processes solves many customer service problems.” Tom advises.

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Media Cause

JUNE 29, 2024

AI in the Nonprofit Sector The Role of AI in Nonprofits AI plays a transformative role in the nonprofit sector by enhancing efficiency, improving decision-making, and expanding the reach of services. Rally Starter : This platform uses AI to help nonprofits efficiently create advocacy campaigns to engage supporters and create real impact.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 4, 2018

During my Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management (MNLM) studies, I gained an appreciation for volunteers and an interest in how volunteers can engage in advocacy. The terms advocacy and lobbying are generally used interchangeably to describe how nonprofits influence legislation and public policy. Grimm R, T., Talbert, M.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Last week, we went over digital advocacy forms. Many of us know mobile messaging as texting , or if we’ve been using it long enough, as SMS (short messaging service) and MMS (multimedia messaging service.) percent , and 10 percent for mobile advocacy messages. This week’s sixth and final topic: mobile messaging.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 16, 2024

A rebrand of Mothers Against Drunk Driving® (MADD) , the 44-year-old advocacy group based in Irving, Texas, was unveiled, including a new logo and tagline Impaired Driving Ends Here. The rebrand is intended to resonate with all generations and backgrounds to make safer choices on roads and waterways.

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Donorbox

AUGUST 23, 2024

With its diverse community and significant presence of advocacy and service organizations, D.C. These organizations have a significant social and economic impact on the city, employing 26% of the city’s workforce and generating nearly $78 billion in annual revenue. offers […] The post How to Start a Nonprofit in Washington D.C.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 17, 2021

By Brian Greenwald , Nonprofit Superfan at Generate_Impact – a human-centered technology services company focused solely on celebrating and serving humanitarian, social impact and sustainability organizations and causes. Simply put, “Tech Team Aug” means establishing a dedicated tech services partner for your nonprofit.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Given the rapid growth in grassroots advocacy initiatives at organizations large and small, we’ve been talking a lot in our office about the opportunities nonprofits have to drive new types of engagement through advocacy and what makes an organization effective. ” How it does that presents quite a few lessons.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2011

Yesterday, I had lunch with Monica Martinez, the ED of Homeless Services for Santa Cruz county. Our goal is to tackle the root causes of this issue and provide people with services that help them transition out of homelessness. As she said (and I'm paraphrasing): We're not in the business of giving people food or a bed in perpetuity.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Nonprofit advocacy helps educate voters, the media, and even candidates about the issues voters care about the most, and can help hold elected officials accountable once they take office. Honing your organization’s advocacy roadmap now is imperative for creating real, lasting change that impacts people’s lives in 2024 and beyond.

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The MatrixFiles

JANUARY 4, 2023

The Pet Advocacy Network meets members at industry events to solicit feedback and share what Pet Advocacy is doing to showcase the industry and its issues. And if your organization has added member services, updated its governance, or launched new services and are seeing great results, I want to hear your story!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 12, 2024

Nonprofit organizations play a pivotal role in addressing societal issues, providing essential services, advocacy, and support to those in need, and fostering community development. This lip service passion is not only unacceptable but detrimental to the missions of these organizations. Stop making excuses and start helping.

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M+R

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This year, a record 27 regional food banks participated in M+R’s annual Benchmarks Study covering mostly digital fundraising, marketing, advertising, and advocacy metrics (and here’s another plug…if you haven’t dug into this year’s study, do it now!). As we’ve said before , advocacy is a must for long-term impact.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Environmental Stewardship – Share Our Spare Award: $10,000 Share Our Spare is a community resource of essentials, education and advocacy for families living in poverty and the agencies that serve them. Service agencies often do not have access to these essentials, digging into their own pockets to provide them to the families they serve.

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 9, 2023

More likely to be successful in advocacy and public policy. Provide access to resources such as professional development, non-dues revenue, or other member-friendly services that enhance engagement. Deliberately identifying new or additional customer services is one path that associations and other nonprofits can take toward growth.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Government funding for many nonprofits, particularly health and human services nonprofits in Arizona, can be anywhere from 50% to 90% of the agency funding. Yet, nonprofits don’t see the connection to advocacy for the people they serve as their major fundraising activity. Advocacy is always controversial.

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VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

We learned that organizations providing services in a coordinated manner brought better results. Over the years our solutions evolved; we launched the technology for the nation's first coordinated assistance network for relief services, then launched new tools for multi-agency, multi-program, multi-location coordination.

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Media Cause

MAY 30, 2023

TikTok has emerged as a powerful platform for advocacy and social justice, enabling individuals and organizations to build large followings and drive meaningful change. The Power of TikTok Advocacy: Using the Platform to Drive Change Take @thatpyschnp , who regularly rallies her 300k+ followers to take action for progressive causes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 31, 2020

This year’s tools tap into emerging trends, such as Messenger bots, cryptocurrency, and gaming for good, and also build on long-time successful fundraising strategies, such as e-advocacy, online contests, and monthly giving. Test the service by selecting the orange “Get My Bot” button. 1) Action Button :: actionbutton.org.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Tactical Tech, based in the UK and India, has published The Quick ‘n Easy Guide to Online Advocacy to help advocates find "online services that are quick to use and easy to understand." The guide also offers advice on where and when to use these services.

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Candid

OCTOBER 28, 2024

For example, the year 2020 saw a 26% increase in individual donations to human services nonprofits (e.g. organizations providing direct services such as food, shelter, support, and aid).

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The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 21, 2024

million to advance health equity, strengthen communities and impact systemic change across its 74-county service area. That amount includes direct services, community investments, the development of community partnerships and advocacy initiatives that create a more level playing field for individuals to thrive.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

By Brian Greenwald , Nonprofit Superfan at Generate_Impact – a human-centered technology services company focused solely on celebrating and serving humanitarian, social impact, sustainability and for-profit-for-good organizations and causes. Ok, first of all, you may be asking, what is a Tech Discovery?

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 15, 2024

and certificates for services (such as childcare or pet-sitting) that would make their busy lives easier. Approach new potential sponsors strategically—choose businesses that sell goods or services on your must-have list and whose values align with your nonprofit’s mission.

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Care2

JUNE 14, 2012

Advocacy and corporate accountability campaigns are some of the longest and toughest fights for nonprofits to win. But these campaigns can also be the most exciting to work on for nonprofit staff, especially if your organization has the creative freedom to launch aggressive and targeted campaigns.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

It encompasses activities such as community organizing, advocacy, and public service, empowering individuals to contribute to their communities. Advocacy and Policy Support: Foundations possess a unique position of influence and can leverage their voice to advocate for systemic change.

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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. A few years ago, Hunger Solutions New York (HSNY) targeted service providers as their primary audience. We are doing more direct service now,” she says.

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Association Analytics

AUGUST 14, 2023

For instance, your association might consider creating advocacy campaigns and scheduling lobby days. Additionally, you might consider what new products or services you could provide that might also increase your non-dues revenue with the help of AI. In fact, we’ve been using AI for years to predict member renewals and event attendees.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provided two important reminders for both donors and charities regarding qualified appraisal rules governing cryptocurrency contributions. There are advocacy groups petitioning the IRS to change its rules in this space to allow cryptocurrency to be treated as a publicly-traded asset.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2020

By keeping all the board materials on a Google Drive (or another cloud storage service), these documents – whether they are bylaws, budgets, minutes, agendas – will make it easier for board members to keep track of documents, and not risk losing them when a board member’s computer crashes, or someone unexpectedly resigns. FULL BIO ].

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Candid

AUGUST 22, 2024

For instance, these foundations are more likely to disaggregate data by race and ethnicity and to purchase goods and services from minority-owned businesses. According to the report, nonprofits view advocacy work, such as meeting with policy makers or conducting research on racial equity issues as essential for achieving systemic change.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 11, 2021

By: Eric Zuehlke, Head of Editorial, Division of Global Communication and Advocacy, UNICEF and Martha Mackenzie, Global Humanitarian Advocacy Lead, UNICEF. Today is UNICEF’s birthday, marking 75 years of delivering critical services and creating safer and healthier environments for children and families around the world.

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