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Funders: Considering Collaboration? Start With a Light Touch and See Where It Leads

sgEngage

To meet needs, they co-fund professional development in areas like fundraising, strategic planning, facilitation, evaluation, racial equity work, marketing and communications, storytelling, and more. . Funder coalitions working at the city or state level can pool their resources to support data and research that backs policy change.

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New on SSIR: Effects of Joining the Conversation

Amy Sample Ward

The Hatcher Group , a Maryland-based public affairs and communications firm, released a great report this past Fall called New Media & Social Change: How Nonprofits are Using Web-based Technologies to Reach Their Goals (PDF). Joining the conversation is incredibly important if these organizations expect to change policy and change minds.

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Social Media and Health Care (at SxSW)

Forum One

" The session featured a facilitated conversation about how hospitals and health care providers are using new media and social networking software to support their primary objectives — treatment, research, education and outreach, and patient-provider communication. For me, one of the most valuable sessions was " E.R.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. Benefit corporations, created in Maryland in 2010, differ from L3Cs in that they are required to operate under specific standards set forth by B Lab, itself a nonprofit organization (Powell et al.,

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Guest Post by Michael Hoffman: Viral Video for Nonprofits - A Rethinking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One successful YouTube video, even if it moves people while they are watching it, does not facilitate this engagement. One of our biggest viral video hits was this video for the Maryland State Teachers Association. Organizations need to have online strategies that follow-up initial interest with real engagement over the long term.

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Viral Video for Nonprofits - A Rethinking

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One successful YouTube video, even if it moves people while they are watching it, does not facilitate this engagement. One of our biggest viral video hits was this video for the Maryland State Teachers Association. Organizations need to have online strategies that follow-up initial interest with real engagement over the long term.

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