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Thursday Thoughts: attracting passionate nonprofit advocates

EveryAction

Board members, donors, coalitions partners, and folks who have signed a national list but have not taken a local action are all good places to find some of your best volunteers. Providing advocacy trainings is a great way to equip new advocates with the information and tools they need to get involved and move the needle on your issue.

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10 Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Blogging of the past was usually editorial content, such as an opinion piece or report back by an executive director. Blogs were most often written in first-person, more than 1,000 words, and many nonprofit blogs of the past embraced the concept that a blog post had to be published daily for the blogger to be taken seriously.

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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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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

Prioritizing a more dignified experience in food service means that every person can both access food, and access the right food to meet their nutritional, medical, religious, or cultural needs. At our first in-person design sprint*, the group challenged each other to bust orthodoxies that hold us back from reducing hunger.

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The sgENGAGE Podcast Episode 120: Current Trends in Grassroots Advocacy

Connection Cafe

How has grassroots advocacy changed in the past few years? And what are the current grassroots advocacy trends that your organization should be leveraging to have greater success? Topics Discussed in This Episode: Changes in the grassroots advocacy space in the past few years. Strengths of storytelling and personalization.

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Collaborating for New Solutions To Persistent Societal Challenges

Saleforce Nonprofit

Ending hunger – especially by 2030 to achieve the United Nations’ Zero Hunger goal — can seem overwhelming. Leaders from these groups recently met for Together Against Hunger , a two-day conference that attracted more than 500 people from dozens of countries, both virtually and in person. Heber Brown , and Isobel Coleman.

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Let’s All Pull Together: Reflections from Harambee 2023

Candid

After two years of attending Harambee virtually, I was excited to finally join in person, alongside more than 800 fellow attendees. Advocating for Black communities Another theme interwoven throughout the conference was advocacy for Black communities. At Howard University, we used to sing the song during convocation.