M+R

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

A recent article by the Associated Press sheds light on a troubling trend: nonprofit organizations, particularly 501(c)(3)s, are becoming increasingly wary of lobbying and advocacy efforts. It’s a moment to boldly lean into advocacy, embracing it as a powerful tool for change and cultural disruption. Embrace advocacy.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation. For nonprofits, this moment presents an opportunity for a social media strategy “do-over.” Marginalized users and organizations have been impacted in multiple ways.

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Social Media Media Strategy Social 94

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. So, working with our community to define our short-term campaign goals as well as our long-term vision is critical.

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EveryAction

MAY 30, 2023

Virtual lobby days may be accessible to more people than in-person events; new supporters may be looking for a lower-barrier way to get involved; and virtual events can help you build the power in numbers that any organization needs for a successful advocacy effort. Looking for more ways your technology can boost your advocacy program?

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EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

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. Check out our last installment here ! Here’s what our expert partners said.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Coming from a background in community organizing and public policy — specifically in the anti-rape movement — I understand the importance of effective messaging in advocacy campaigns. At Media Cause, we conceptualize advocacy in that same vein: It’s about shifting the balance of power. Identify Your Own Story .

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M+R

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We know advocacy is key to winning—both elections and the concrete policy changes that will have an impact on people’s lives, which is why my colleagues and I will be hosting a webinar on November 9: Countdown to Election Day—The road to victory starts HERE. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but we’re ready for the fight.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2014

SVP and Director of Digital Strategies. Your concise guide to building a winnable campaign. Are you looking to win support for an issue, impact policy, or get a corporation or government body to change its policies? Follow this roadmap to put successful campaign strategies in place. Michael Khoo.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Regardless of the issues that your organization works on, or your c3/c4 status, you know nonprofits play a key role in defining the issues that elections focus on, along with the policies beyond each election cycle. Contact Christian LoBue and Kate Ryan about M+R Win, our in-house, one-stop campaign strategy shop.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

These signs could include but are not limited to indications of burnout, miscommunication issues, poor engagement, underperformance, or misalignment with workplace policies. Next, make sure this employee has a clear path set to succeed in their next project and provide a designated time where they can ask questions or run through strategies.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

These signs could include but are not limited to indications of burnout, miscommunication issues, poor engagement, underperformance, or misalignment with workplace policies. Next, make sure this employee has a clear path set to succeed in their next project and provide a designated time where they can ask questions or run through strategies.

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Association Analytics

AUGUST 14, 2023

Within just a few months, most associations had publicly posted recommendations and tips, provided amnesty for dues, created policies and procedures, and/or jumped to virtual tools to continue providing events. For instance, your association might consider creating advocacy campaigns and scheduling lobby days.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Explore Media Cause experts’ top five communication tips to consider as you roll out your advocacy , fundraising , and engagement strategies during an election year. Policy and marketing team members within your nonprofit can make a great team to plan accordingly. change post-November strategies? Then, rinse and repeat.

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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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M+R

MAY 17, 2022

Donald was one of the original (Ralph) “Nader’s Raiders,” tasked with traveling the country and turning college student energy into student advocacy groups. Donald went on to lead New York’s PIRG (NYPIRG) into a powerhouse of an advocacy organization and organized one of the largest protests of the 1970s with 100,000 people on the mall in DC.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

We know advocacy is key to winning—both elections and the concrete policy changes that will have an impact on people’s lives, which is why my colleagues and I will be hosting a webinar on November 9: Countdown to Election Day—The road to victory starts HERE. We have a lot of work ahead of us, but we’re ready for the fight.

Advocacy 52

Advocacy Government Global Policy 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Their use of the social network is mostly inconsistent and without strategy – the 10 best practices below are meant to change that. 1) Set up and prioritize LinkedIn Pages in your social media strategy. Finally, prioritize your LinkedIn Page in your overall social media strategy and commit to posting regularly. LinkedIn Pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Recently, I've been getting a question like that goes something like this, "All this social media stuff is great if you're fund raising or selling something or running a grassroots advocacy campaign, but what if you're focusing on carefully vetted scientific research or want to impact policy?

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M+R

MARCH 9, 2023

When advocacy groups are successfully leading campaigns to censor and ban books that address race and racism; involve sexual content (e.g., stories about teen pregnancy); and feature major characters of color and/or LGBTQIA storylines, but those aren’t books that a child you know would read, will you speak up anyway?

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Florida Empowerment Teen Children 88

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

The short answer: a good digital advocacy strategy helps an advocate win! A clear, practical digital strategy helps any advocacy organization or advocacy campaign understand what they need to do online and why. So how do you get one of those fancy digital strategies? I hope you can join us!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Last week, Dan Michel offered an intriguing answer to this question : “What form of social media measurement does your organization engage in; Community participation, advocacy (earned mentions, discussions), or donations ($ or time)? &#. We saw a lot of interest and click thrus from Twitter particularly.&#

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

. —– Whether it’s political or personal, global or local, funded or a grassroots effort, organizations and communities are campaigning for change in many ways, all of the time. When building a campaign and exploring your options for the structure, actions and engagement pieces, look first at your organizational metrics.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Whether you’re planning an advocacy or fundraising campaign, using a storytelling framework to create your calls to action can help you make emotional connections with your audience and ultimately move them to act. There are a four basic elements of a Story of Now: A strategy. A strategy is your plan to achieve your goal.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Is there a long-term need for your nonprofit, or could the issue be solved with a smaller-scale fundraising campaign or project? However, if your idea isn’t very large in scope, a one-time crowdfunding campaign or peer-to-peer fundraising event could achieve the results you’re hoping for. The answer could be “both.”

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Nonprofit Files Policy Software 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2012

It is a nonprofits dream – to have its advocacy campaign messaging go viral on Facebook or social media channels. Her insights are useful to other nonprofits working on integrated advocacy campaigns. Our Farm Animal Protection campaign came to us right away and said “look at this! What happened?

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Facebook Campaign Share Social Media 127

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Across America, Hispanic and Latino organizations are leading the way in every realm, including advocacy, education, healthcare, and social services. Their work focuses on building a pipeline meant to serve and empower our community, consisting of three parts: civic engagement, issue advocacy, and leadership development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

This week I did a social media training for a cluster of the foundation’s sustainable agriculture grantees. Here’s some notes on what I learned integrated social media campaigns as well as the process that prompted these insights. Spectragram. You can explain complex issues like cap and trade in 140 characters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

Fresh, timely content is more vital to the success of your nonprofit’s digital campaigns than it has ever been. 2) Advocacy CTA on the Union of Concerned Scientists blog. It’s a strategy that has worked for Nonprofit Tech for Good as our numbered lists are consistently our most trafficked posts on Nonprofit Tech for Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

Note from Beth: What if your organization embarked on its first ever crowd funding campaign with a goal of raising $50,000 and only raised $10,000? Director of Programs and Policy answered a few questions about how they used learning and pivoting to get better results. Why did you decide to do a crowd-funding campaign in 2012?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

From recruiting, developing and sustaining Black teachers for schools, BTP works to develop recruitment strategies, create support structures and even conduct research to ensure long term sustainability for Black teachers. This Black History Month, they're undertaking a social media campaign on the best part about being a Black teacher.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 13, 2023

We’ll walk through some of the most important database management strategies, starting with why you should start using data management software. Additionally, establish clear policies and procedures for staff to follow when entering data. Use data management software.

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Data Management Database Software 52

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

In an age where million-signature petitions are commonplace, the tried and true strategy of having volunteers send online messages to their members of Congress has greatly diminished in value. Era of Increased Activism and Grassroots Campaigning. Then, I’ll walk you through an example of a campaign we ran recently.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

As a nonprofit professional, you appreciate the fact that email campaigns are an affordable and effective way to reach as many clients, donors, members and media as possible. You've developed e-advocacy tools to rush public policy action alerts to supporters who can advocate for fair and ethical local, national and global policies.

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Socialbrite

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Strategies to combat the epidemic of hopelessness. Be realistic in the fundraising or cause campaigns you plan to launch to make sure you have the required resources. Eric Anderson is the co-founder of SE2 , a Colorado-based integrated communications and marketing agency focused on behavior and policy change.

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Activities Active Activism Colorado 111

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

There are some important social media strategies for transforming those one-click “slacktivists&# into fully engaged activists. The goal is to get professors — and, in turn, their students — involved in producing more articles on public policy and improving the quality of the articles that already exist."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Over the past couple of years as I’ve guide nonprofits in preparing their social media policies or when I speak, I get asked questions that are more legal questions than about social media. Here’s a sampling: Our organization does advocacy around some policy issues. What are the legal issues?

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Social Media Media Chapter Social 95

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Whether you’re crafting an emergency plan to react to unexpected external circumstances or creating your strategy for the next two to five years, this guide will help your nonprofit get the most out of its strategic plan. Carefully monitor your progress and adjust the strategy accordingly.

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