EveryAction

MARCH 29, 2023

From our friends at Media Cause If you are an organization that does advocacy—particularly if you’re wondering how to grow your supporter base and build more people power to achieve your purpose—then this is the blog for you. What makes them the heroes here, and how can you lean into that?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Collaborative reporting: Nonprofits can facilitate partnerships between different news organizations to pool resources, share content, and cover stories more effectively. Research and advocacy: Conduct research on the state of local journalism, produce reports, and advocate for policies that support the industry.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

We are taught to create an organizational chart or a program activity graphic or a network diagram of organizations needed to address an issue like homelessness or educational equity. Visualizing Where Meaning Making Can Happen “Mapping” activities are often the starting point of identifying data collection opportunities.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 16, 2021

Harold Grinspoon Foundation organizes many programs, including summer camp funding, facilitating end-of-life giving, and distributing over half a million educational books a month across 32 countries through the PJ Library.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By this point, suicide was a global health issue, and the United Nations and World Health Organization had worked to establish guidelines for suicide prevention strategies. However, the U.S. had yet to establish their own guidelines. Donate to support their mission here. Donate to support their mission here.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

For issues with this, check out Vu Le’s 2015 post “ Weaponized data: How the obsession with data has been hurting marginalized communities.” Participatory evaluation is based on the premise that everyone has knowledge; everyone has biases; and the people closest to an issue know the most about it.

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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. Director of Advocacy, Policy, and Research, Hunger Free America. His areas of expertise include policy analysis and development, group facilitation, benefits enrollment, and workforce development.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2016

Sometimes, it requires taking a step back to gain perspective on all the different ways data storytelling can enhance advocacy efforts. The database and gallery highlight the immensity of the issue. Those can spark your audience's imagination to encourage examining relationships among and facilitate interacting with the data.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Alternately, you might be thinking about building an advisory committee around advocacy. Oversight—Will the organization’s staff facilitate committee meetings, or will the committee elect a chair/co-chairs? For more on the role of advocacy in nonprofits, check out this article. ︎

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

We so often focus on learning from innovative online campaigns that we miss out on opportunities to integrate offline cause communities and grassroots advocacy. Drawing national attention to an important issue (and a good bit of recognition for your organization the process). Building buzz and press for an advocacy action.

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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. It is not a time to reflect, it is a time to act. No one individual, company, government agency, or nonprofit can go it alone. Opens new window.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

The events can also effectively raise funds through ticket sales, sponsorships, and donations for organizations that provide services and advocacy to advance AAPIs. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators. Educators and academics with expertise related to AAPI issues. Community organizers and non-profit leaders.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

From bringing in revenue to connecting with constituents, the right technology can save your team time and help you facilitate a better donor experience. The consultant can act as an extension of your team by improving your project’s efficiency, assisting with maintenance, and resolving any technical issues that may arise in the future.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

If your nonprofit is stuck in rut or relying on a few big dollar donors or granting institutions for a majority of your funding, a grassroots fundraising or advocacy campaign might be just the answer you’re looking for. Here are eight expert tips to help make your nonprofit’s grassroots fundraising and advocacy campaigns more effective.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 24, 2011

The Think Different Summit was 15-20 smart people, led by an experienced facilitator, trying to imagine the future of the learning disability rights movement. I’m sure part of the issue is that society strongly encourages people with LD to stay in the closet about their disability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Engage in advocacy campaigns. I had the opportunity to facilitate 3 world café sessions on this topic this morning at the GEO: Growing Social Impact in a Networked World funder conference. How can networks facilitate that? How do issues of power, privilege, and equity factor in? How do networks evolve into movements?

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 4, 2023

For example, some consultants will help facilitate your data migration process, be on call for assistance, and provide ongoing training support. These applications add specific features to the CRM, such as a payment processor, advocacy campaign manager, or email authoring application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Gabriela Schneider, Chief Communications Officer at Issue One. While many nonprofit professionals talked about how their nonprofits were pressure cookers, Gabriela Schneider, Chief Communications Officer at Issue One, wrote in a comment how grateful she was that her organization promoted a culture of “we care” or wellbeing for its employees.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

People are talking online and the best way to influence what they are saying or how they are thinking about issues is to talk with them. 64 percent felt that they had successfully affected blog coverage of an issue. One organization had particular success using Twitter to facilitate its state policy work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Peter and Madeleine were the among the pioneers in writing about, designing, facilitating, and evaluating networks in the social impact space. I have designed and facilitated a number of networks like this, although I have called them “Peer Learning Exchanges.” It doesn’t do more than that.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2017

When it comes to advocacy and political campaigns, we must understand how our audience is talking about our issues and candidates before we know what to share on our social media platforms. Consider a campaign that uses the engagement metrics on its Facebook posts to assess what voters think about an issue. Why does this matter?

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 9, 2015

These stakeholders should exist across all levels, from the CEO to the equally important community member, with lived experience of the issue at hand. They can also tap into existing social networks for greater involvement and create opportunities for interested parties to come together and discuss important issues.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

I was knowledgeable enough about the fundamental role of specific nonprofits, but I never fully grasped the role of nonprofit agencies and their effect on social justice issues as a whole. The American Lung Association’s mission is to improve lung health and prevent lung disease through education, advocacy and research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. He asked each staff person to add a sticky note with the name of a “go to person&# for this issue for their group and location. They used sticky notes to visualize the network. Observations.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

Integrations save time and reduce data transmission issues. This CRM is accompanied by fundraising, advocacy, and marketing solutions. In addition to comprehensive donor profiles and data-tracking technology, they offer other built-in solutions that help organizations with marketing, advocacy, fundraising, and more.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 21, 2016

Whether you’re looking to hire new employees or contract for services, you want to make sure that whoever you bring into the fold shares your goals and interests in moving the organization and issue forward. They likely know your issues and can facilitate connections among their network. Ask their opinion on a touchstone issue.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Identify the organizations in your community (if any) that are already working to solve this issue. You may also consider offering micro-volunteer opportunities (typically between 1-2 hours) or virtual volunteer opportunities for volunteers with busy schedules, mobility issues, or transportation restrictions. Offer ongoing support.

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Care2

MARCH 28, 2011

This lead to a fabulous question about how to accomplish that when the issue is sensitive and people may face serious repercussions for being open about their experience publicly. Private nonprofit online communities are here to stay so long as people continue to struggle with sensitive issues where privacy is key. Over to You.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2011

Online advocacy doesn't work in a vacuum - it works best when it's part of a thoughtful integrated campaign that combines offline and online actions. Some people will have you believe that online advocacy doesn't work, or that Congress isn't listening, and so you should abandon your efforts entirely. DO go local.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We have designed and been delivering “ Friending the Finish Line ” with the goals of having organizations create an integrated social media strategy into their overall communications plan and as a way to accelerate the progress of their children’s health care advocacy work and create a peer networked learning community.

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NTEN

JUNE 9, 2011

Message 3 : Two weeks after joining: "What issues are you interested in?". Here are a few best practices for facilitating personal messages between members. Facilitate in-network responses. Make sure that your software's private messages facilitate a private response within the community itself.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 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) Of course, we had no budget for this.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 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) Of course, we had no budget for this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. Case study is here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

As one social media strategist told me over a year ago, "I facilitated social media guidelines as a first doable step because there was so much fear about encouraging staff to use social media at organization. Intellectual property rights and other legal issues. All of them talking about hunger issues. Internet Use Policy.

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