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How Nonprofits Can Engage Volunteers in Advocacy

ASU Lodestar Center

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. Who is Your Target Audience?

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Foo Camp 2009

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just got back from Foo Camp 2009, which was a blast as usual. It's structured as an unconference, where the 300 or so folks showing up design the conference program of roughly 70 sessions in about an hour the first night. I think this is my third or fourth Foo Camp, and the energy around public uses of technology was palpable.

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My Goals For 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009. Whiteboard: Why Less is More in Design. Critique Your Design.

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What strategies should nonprofits implement for high-performing cross-sector collaboration?

ASU Lodestar Center

Regardless of a project’s scope or number of potential partners, a nonprofit’s next steps should follow a “two-layer process” of assessment and implementation, according to the AIM Alliance of 2009. Layer one, internal assessment, is an exercise in rigorous self-reflection. Layer two begins with the implementation process. Recommendations.

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Great reads from around the web on January 13th

Amy Sample Ward

Only 5% of Websites Have a Twitter or Facebook Link – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – "Factual, an “open data repository&# analyzed 4 million websites via data from Common Crawl, a non-profit group designed to crawl the web and provide data for anyone to use."

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Marketing and Engagement: Making the most of your Emails

Amy Sample Ward

From 2009 to 2010, the open rate for organizations of all sizes and sectors declined by 12% on average. The fundraising response rate fell by 19%, while the advocacy response rate fell by 7%. Meanwhile, unsubscribe rates held steady from 2009 to 2010. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Highlights.

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Road Trip! Fundraising, Advocacy, Community Building, Storytelling and Recruitment on the Road.

Care2

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. The road trippers also made stops for advocacy events in Boston and New York before concluding in Washington DC.