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Advocacy for everyone: 6 ways to help your supporters take action

EveryAction

That’s why we often say that advocacy is for everyone: when decisions are being made that affect your organization’s work, mission, and vision, it just makes sense to get involved, unite your supporters, and move them to take action with you in pursuit of a specific mission-oriented goal. This means their voices hold power in a range of ways.

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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.

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4 ways your site should support year-end virtual fundraising

EveryAction

After helping hundreds of organizations prep their own sites for year-end fundraising, we have a few key recommendations: Use integrated tools whenever possible. Use unified or integrated digital tools whenever possible. Plus, the data hygiene benefits of software integrations can’t be overstated. Let’s get started.

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Thursday Thoughts: engaging advocates all year round

EveryAction

If your nonprofit does advocacy, you know that with this work, there are almost always consistent patterns of crisis management leading to later periods of denouement and down time. Advocacy is a long-term calling.  Check out our last installment here! Here’s what they said. Learn more at MESG.marketing !

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Advocacy Campaigns: 5 Essential Tools to Support Your Cause

DipJar

Advocacy campaigns are an innovative way for nonprofits to engage their current supporters, attract new audiences, and fulfill their mission at the same time. However, before you can reap the many benefits of a successful advocacy campaign, your nonprofit will need to invest in the right advocacy software. Canvassing Software.

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Modern Advocacy Requires Modern Tools

Connection Cafe

Given the rapid growth in grassroots advocacy initiatives at organizations large and small, we’ve been talking a lot in our office about the opportunities nonprofits have to drive new types of engagement through advocacy and what makes an organization effective. ” How it does that presents quite a few lessons.

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Tips and Tools for Integrating Social Media Into Your Nonprofit Event Marketing Plan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

John Haydon also notes that EventBrite can be integrated into your Facebook Brand Page. What are you best tips and tools for integrating social media into nonprofit events? Be sure to flip through this deck from TechSoupGlobal, EventBrite, and Social Media 4 Nonprofits chocked full of useful nonprofit event management tips.