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Nonprofit Advocacy Can Be a Force Multiplier for Social Change

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For many years, people frequently suggested that Benetech , the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead, get more involved in Washington, DC policy and legislative action. Our longest-term donor, the Skoll Foundation , went so far as to introduce me to a DC-based advocacy firm. Isn’t that where good ideas go to die?”

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

Foundations in the United States focus their funding priorities on many different issues. If your nonprofit is seeking funding, it’s critical to identify the foundations whose interests and funding priorities align with your own. Funding Priority: Education. Global Fund For Children. Daniels Fund.

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How Nonprofits Can Leverage Organic Social Media to Increase Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Working with NGOs, thought leaders, and policymakers in DC for the last decade, she specializes in getting people to care about complex issues that might otherwise get ignored. Share financial reports, impact assessments, and breakdowns of where the funds go.

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Alt-labor: What are workers’ rights nonprofits?  

Candid

Instead , they pursue a variety of other strategies centering on litigation, education, and industry-wide advocacy. Foundation funding for workers’ rights i. Instead, they rely on the same kinds of funding streams as traditional community-based nonprofits: individual donations, volunteers, and support from institutional philanthropy.

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The R in M+R

M+R

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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Pre-Register Now: Nonprofit Startup 101 Course

CauseVox

In this two-part course, you’ll learn how to: Create your first strategic plan; Build an initial budget; Recruit an engaged board to support your activities; Begin to identify funding opportunities; Carry out a seed-funding campaign; And identify other essential needs to see your organization through its first three years.

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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. Raising funds. Diverse Goals. Creating unique content for your blog and social media presence.