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Pairing Advocacy and Fundraising: The Peas and Carrots of Digital Engagement

Media Cause

501c3’s can’t do advocacy, it’s not allowed. ” In other words, not all advocacy is lobbying — and not all lobbying is prohibited. In fact, depending on a 501c3’s annual expenses, a nonprofit could spend 5% – 20% of it’s annual resources on direct advocacy or lobbying. Advocates aren’t donors. Donors aren’t advocates.

Advocacy 101
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Anthem Awards Finalists Announced!

Forum One

The for-profit and nonprofit entries in each category with the greatest amount of support will win the first-ever Anthem Community Voice Awards. This project received national media attention and was built using a headless architecture with a Contentful back-end, React front-end, and interactive maps with Carto.

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5 ways to supercharge your fundraising ads before the ball drops

M+R

Updating your landing page content to introduce you to new constituents. Groups like the Union of Concerned Scientists and USA for UNHCR actually improved donation form conversion rates by showing more content to their paid traffic! This might look like: . Testing changes to your donation form to improve conversion rates.

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[Survey] Nonprofit Content Marketing – Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends for 2015

Connection Cafe

Content marketing isn’t a widely used term in the not for profit world. On the other hand, nonprofits produce and use content all the time in order to connect with their supporters! Blackbaud Partners with The Content Marketing Institute (CMI). Why do we Need Nonprofit Content Marketing Research? What gives?

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Behold! The fundraising power of a little cultivation!

M+R

After asking a lot of questions and convening small roundtables of non-profits to explore cultivation messaging, we found that many groups are grounding their cultivation efforts in a little bit of data and a whole lot of assumptions. And most nonprofits, even the biggest ones, don’t know if any of it actually works.

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It’s Time for Nonprofits to Think About Tech as Program Work, Not Overhead

Saleforce Nonprofit

And digital advocacy became one of the strongest mechanisms for us to inform and activate our members of the NAACP across the country,” he said. “We There is no going back, digital advocacy has to be a part of what we do moving forward.”. Our sector as a whole has been about eight years behind the for-profit sector in this regard.

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Does Your Nonprofit Need a Website Revamp? How to Tell

Top Nonprofits

In this guide, we’ll cover common reasons your website may need a revamp, including: Your content is out of date. Your content is out of date. When your nonprofit’s website content is out of date, your audience won’t be able to find the information they need to get involved. Your website doesn’t reflect your current brand.

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