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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. Grimm R, T., Talbert, M.

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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.

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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. What are your goals for 2009? Then, try to think in even broader terms.

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Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Comes to London!

Amy Sample Ward

collaborations about ways to use, deploy, develop and promote mobile technology in health, advocacy, economic development, environment, human rights, citizen media, to name a few areas. In short, Mobile Tech 4 Social Change camp is: A one-day event in London on May 23, 2009 at Vodafone. Each event includes. interactive discussions.

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Innovation: Clay Shirky Interview & NetSquared Challenges

Amy Sample Ward

The Human Rights Center is sponsoring a challenge to encourage innovations for applying mobile technologies for human rights investigations and advocacy. NetSquared and our Challenge Sponsors invite submissions of innovations in mobile technologies for use by civil society. UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge.

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Twestival: To Meet, Tweet And Raise $500K For Charity - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

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) Great post. Reminded me to go post my own!

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A Tale of Two Nonprofit and Social Media Adoption Surveys

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Invest in social media capacity as a means of achieving brand building, advocacy and fundraising goals. Measure social media with key metrics for visibility, engagement and advocacy . Certainly there are different motivations of the sponsors of these surveys, different methodologies, and different conclusions.