Advocacy, Empowerment and Policy - Nonprofit Technology

“Black & Proud”

M+R

MARCH 9, 2023

While “Say it Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud)” addresses Black love, joy, and empowerment, the proud (on my t-shirt) is focused on self-affirmation, dignity, and equality. When advocacy groups are successfully leading campaigns to censor and ban books that address race and racism; involve sexual content (e.g.,

Florida

Florida Empowerment Teen Children

An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

You cannot have empowerment without participation: empowerment is not something we ‘do’ to other people, but is itself a participatory process that engages people in reflection and inquiry to understand the power they have, and to take action for change as they define it.”

Participatory

Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant

Earth Day ‘22: Salesforce.org Customers Tackle Climate Challenges by Land, Air & Sea

Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2022

At Salesforce.org, we are proud to see how much of our community — whether it’s our employees, our partners, or the nonprofits we support — is jumping in through funding, advocacy, or volunteering. Mission: Empowerment of children and youth and mobilize for and enable the restoration of 1 trillion new trees worldwide.

Ireland

Ireland Challenge Empowerment Local

Living Case Studies: Integrated Social Media Strategy for Sustainable Agriculture

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

I used the following statements given that I had a mix of staff members – from executive directors, social media managers, and policy/program directors. How To Convince Policy Directors. You can explain complex issues like cap and trade in 140 characters. Living Case Study. Building Networks of Partners.

Case Study

Case Study Social Media Studies Integration

Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Their mission is to advance gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy. They believe that when grassroots women’s organizations provide vital services to their communities, women can build new skills, step up as leaders, and mobilize for rights-based policies. Areas served: Chicago metropolitan area.

Empowerment

Empowerment Grant Fund Resource

2021 Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

Their mission is to advance gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy. They believe that when grassroots women’s organizations provide vital services to their communities, women can build new skills, step up as leaders, and mobilize for rights-based policies. Areas served: Chicago metropolitan area.

Empowerment

Empowerment Grant Fund Resource

Convio 2008 Innovator Awards - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Created a wall of 5,000 signers photos.

Convio

Convio Award Social Media Advocacy

Nonprofit Technology News: Help for Charities to Develop Mobile Giving Capacity

Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. The new project is called the Mobile Giving Alliance.

News

News Charity Mobile New York City

On saints and advocates

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

He has argued that Mother Theresa was not primarily interested in eliminating poverty, which would have involved muscular advocacy for things like the empowerment of women. Conventional wisdom has always said that nonprofits should focus on either service or advocacy, but not both. So what should nonprofits be doing?

Advocacy

Advocacy Homeless Convio Empowerment

Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

Our work focuses on advocacy, policy, education and political thought that helps to shape the dialogue and public conversation about the interests of these folks. military policies globally, not just what's happening with women domestically. It's not a term you see plastered all over the newspapers, "racial wealth divide."

Resource

Resource Interview Policy Issue

The Move On Model: Inciting Visitor Social Action

Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2007

Sometimes, the desired visitor actions were hazy, represented by a general principle like “diversity;” other times, the actions were specific extensions of advocacy or policy espoused by the institution. People don't need empowerment to make a difference; they need vehicles for action.

Model

Model Action Congo Museum

Juneteenth Resources

Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

The Conscious Kid —The Conscious Kid is an education, research, and policy organization that supports families and educators in taking action to disrupt racism, inequity and bias. Colorlines —Colorlines is a daily news site where race matters, featuring award-winning in-depth reporting, news analysis, opinion and curation.

Resource

Resource United States Movie Louisville

A critique of Just Another Emperor

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2008

It slams the use of business thinking and approaches in philanthropy, and makes some drastic policy recommendations to fix elite philanthropy by those dubbed philanthrocapitalists. I really don't like Just Another Emperor, and it's because of the spin techniques used to attempt to make the case for the policy changes it advocates.

Philanthropy

Philanthropy Technique Policy Empowerment

Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

So our first exchange that we did with Global Exchange was called "Transformative Advocacy in Bolivia." Melinda: One of the interesting things about working within women's empowerment as it relates to environmental sustainability is I've really learned the ways that we talk about environmentalism is as this siloed issue.

Green

Green Global Action Network

Leading the Resistance: 28 Organizations You Can (and Should) Support Today

EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Legal Advocacy. Lambda Legal Lambda Legal is the oldest and largest national legal organization whose mission is to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work. Center for Medicare Advocacy.

Support

Support Alabama Organization South Dakota

Raising the Floor of the Platform Economy: Co-ops, Unions, and the Struggle to Transform Technology

Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

SEIU supported Coworker.org , a digital political advocacy organization that lobbies for policy change and helped create the Workers’ Lab. For now, a large part of their efforts is in the political arena: In 2020, labor spent $5.28 million on political lobbying, and another $1.8 billion on the presidential election.

Platform

Platform Raise Technology United States

Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Population Council :: @ Pop_Council.

Conservancy

Conservancy Nicaragua Kenya National

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