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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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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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[Breaking News] An Extraordinary Funding Opportunity For Nonprofits To Preserve Local Journalism

Bloomerang

Nonprofits focused on the preservation of local journalism are being called to step up, and many of the country’s largest private foundations have announced $500 million in funding over five years to support them, an extraordinary initiative called Press Forward. Press Forward seeks to stop and reverse that trend. What’s the problem?

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10 Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

News articles on your website can serve the same function as blog posts on your website provided they are dated and written like a blog post, not a press release. 2) Advocacy CTA on the Union of Concerned Scientists blog. One of the more effective ways to generate traffic to your blog is to tap into the news cycle.

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Winning Elections Without Losing Everything: A conversation between The Othering and Belonging Institute’s john a. powell and M+R Win’s Christian LoBue

M+R

powell is the co-author, with Stephen Menendian, of the forthcoming book, Belonging without Othering, How We Save Ourselves and the World , with Stanford University Press. powell is the co-author, with Stephen Menendian, of the forthcoming book, Belonging without Othering, How We Save Ourselves and the World , with Stanford University Press.

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What counts as racial equity funding?  

Candid

We began tracking grants and pledges based on press releases and public announcements to tell a real-time story. . service delivery, research, advocacy). generate and?reinforce a big push to collect this information from press releases, news sources, and funder websites?and underlying systems and structures that?generate

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How to Build a Social Media Following: Top Secrets Revealed

Nonprofits Source

For example, Gen Z and Millennial audiences are active Instagram users, while older generations tend to be more active on Facebook. Plus, your nonprofit likely has a stacked schedule, so taking time out during the middle of a pressing meeting or volunteer event to post is not ideal. What should you post? Communicate consistency.