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Advocacy for everyone: 6 ways to help your supporters take action

EveryAction

That’s why we often say that advocacy is for everyone: when decisions are being made that affect your organization’s work, mission, and vision, it just makes sense to get involved, unite your supporters, and move them to take action with you in pursuit of a specific mission-oriented goal. This means their voices hold power in a range of ways.

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How Water.org Adapted Their Social Media Content Strategy in Response to COVID-19

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Posting without a mindfulness of the trending topics and conversations can cause organizations to appear insensitive and tone-deaf. The current social media environment has caused non-profit marketers to re-evaluate their content aware of the acute conversations being had on every channel, at a global level. “As

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Thursday Thoughts: attracting passionate nonprofit advocates

EveryAction

When you have a goal to meet—like asking a governing body to sign a bill into law, telling a CEO or other stakeholder to change a behavior or policy, or meeting goals around educating decision-makers on your issue area—you know you can’t do it alone. Don’t just ask once: You’ll need to ask a lot to get a lot.

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LGBTQ+ advocacy strategies to generate advocates year-round

EveryAction

While there’s often increased attention on issues affecting the community during Pride month, meaningful and lasting change happens when advocacy happens year-round. Key types of advocacy Issue awareness Before organizations can create advocates for their cause, they need to make people aware of the issues they’re trying to solve.

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Lessons Learned Living the Virtual Experiment

.orgSource

A constant bombardment of messages causes burnout. A constant bombardment of messages in texts, via email, and on social platforms, causes burnout. Senders lose track of what they casually launched into cyberspace, and recipients struggle with the distracting chatter of too many digital voices. became part of our call to action.”

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How to generate advocacy calls from your supporters to elected officials

EveryAction

Start by asking, “Who are the decision-makers closest to the issue right now?” Advocacy forms should include a clear call-to-action—no matter your goal. Creating a list of supporters who have interacted with similar content of yours, taken an action before, or simply shown high levels of engagement can also be a good place to start.

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Normalizing seeking support for mental health takes collective action

Candid

Although much has changed since I wrote my last article promoting May is Mental Health Awareness Month , the country is still dealing with many of the same issues that threaten the mental health of too many people. billion to mental health causes.* The United States is ready for a mass mental health intervention. Foundation.

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