M+R

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Watching the House floor these days feels like watching a parody of how the government should work, but not in a fun way like VEEP… more like a dumpster fire. We’re officially one year out from yet another extremely consequential election (see: all the big issues on the line in the previous paragraph!)

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Forum One

MARCH 7, 2023

Their work includes research, education for families and health professionals, support for families directly affected by the maternal health crisis, and advocacy. Providing annual assessments of health policies The Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Index critically evaluates and grades the annual impact of U.S.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 15, 2022

If you’re reading this, I’m guessing you understand the power and potential of policy change. If you have a policy, thought-leadership, or government relations team, you know that true societal shifts and those monumental changes we want require advocacy. And advocacy requires, well, advocates. your supporters.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2014

Are you looking to win support for an issue, impact policy, or get a corporation or government body to change its policies? Advocacy advocacy strategy campaigns Program' Your concise guide to building a winnable campaign. Follow this roadmap to put successful campaign strategies in place.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Before you start a new organization, it’s worth it to fully think through the problem you’re hoping to address and whether a nonprofit is the right way to solve the issue. Can you clearly articulate the issue you’re hoping to solve? Is it one distinct problem or multiple issues? The answer could be “both.”

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Loss of investigative reporting: Investigative journalism, which is often resource-intensive, has suffered in many areas, leading to reduced oversight of local government and institutions. 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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Everyaction

JUNE 6, 2018

Pride Fund to End Gun Violence is a Political Action Committee (PAC) that supports candidates who will act on sensible gun policy reforms while championing LGBTQ safety and equality. On their website, they note that LGBTQ individuals suffer more hate crimes than any other protected group, which makes disarming hate a crucial LGBTQ issue.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2022

Whatever it is, finding out is important for you to satisfy their needs, leading to a longer-term relationship and their enthusiastic advocacy for your cause. In short, the board’s duty is to deal with the policies and the “big issues.” Program volunteers will also have policy implementation duties. What’s a Nonprofit?

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

Their donors, staff, and board members have extensive knowledge of local needs and organizations, and they also have relationships with local leaders in business, government, and education. Oftentimes, local government agencies and other funding organizations like United Way participate. . 6) Funding or Engaging in Advocacy .

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2016

A few months ago, the MAH board and staff started discussing whether and how to create a formal policy for advocacy activities. Want to go straight to the policy? Why create an advocacy policy? Regardless of your institutional mission, nonprofits are all in the advocacy business. Here it is. Any surprises?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

These days, persistent societal challenges are on the rise: hunger, mental health issues, contagious disease, conflict, chronic inequality, and the climate crisis. The approach just might serve as a model for other issues, as well. Think Big and Work Together Start by challenging your assumptions on the issue.

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Qgiv

MARCH 5, 2024

An NGO is a type of nonprofit organized at the local, national, or international level that works independently of any government involvement. They typically focus on social, political, environmental, and humanitarian objectives through advocacy, research and by providing services. Why are there different types of nonprofits?

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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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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

we all know nonprofits rely on a combination of government grants, philanthropic donations, and earned income to support their operations. Provide diversity and inclusion training for all staff and board members, to increase awareness and understanding of the issues faced by underserved communities.

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Neon CRM

JULY 21, 2023

In this article, we will cover the six areas that any nonprofit board should be overseeing and providing some basic tips on proper board governance. But the board is responsible for ensuring that the nonprofit has all the necessary legal, ethical, financial, and overall good governance policies in place to succeed long-term.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 7, 2016

When I encounter 501(c)(3) organizations that would be suited well to engage in online advocacy but don’t currently have programs set up, I tend to hear the same story, “We don’t want to engage in advocacy because we don’t want to risk losing our 501(c)(3) status.” Often, engaging in advocacy means a connection to public funding.

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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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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. It advocates for policies to ensure equitable access to high-quality services. ??Forum social justice issues?that?impact?the

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. It advocates for policies to ensure equitable access to high-quality services. ??Forum social justice issues?that?impact?the

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Over the past couple of years as I’ve guide nonprofits in preparing their social media policies or when I speak, I get asked questions that are more legal questions than about social media. Here’s a sampling: Our organization does advocacy around some policy issues. What are the legal issues?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2018

If you use Facebook, you probably have noticed how the news feed presents political or issue-related ads. In addition to designating the ad as “sponsored”, political and issue-related ads have an info icon which expands to display the organization that paid for the ad. foreign policy. government reform. foreign policy.

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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. No one individual, company, government agency, or nonprofit can go it alone. Opens new window.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 16, 2017

Luckily, nonprofits already provide many of the programs that will be needed in the years to come, such as: educating students for the careers of the future, providing social services to unemployed persons, advocating for policy solutions and many other roles. Advocating for smart policies. personal communication, Mar. Acker, R (2017).

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

This usage should make us stop and consider whether a smattering of policy makers, scholars, and practitioners have introduced an idea that has meaning only to them, resulting in a grand con on the range of individual industries and activities that fit a vague notion of "public good." So, sector is important for policy advocacy.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 31, 2018

Connect Supporters with Local Elected Officials using Local Advocacy Change doesn’t just happen in Washington, DC. Across the country, state and local governments make meaningful policy decisions that affect nearly every issue - from preventing gun violence, to protecting the environment, or safeguarding LGBTQ rights.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. 15th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. Jan 24 - 25.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

I came away with a much better understanding of the issues they are exploring and certainly did my part to articulate why I support the positions we have. The most interesting part of the conversation was around what I call the “dueling moral high grounds” issue: authors rights and the rights of people with disabilities. copyright law.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

government to close the real prison and the other to encourage public discourse. Both projects are engaging examples of virtual advocacy, with one creating a virtual representation of the detention center in the virtual world Second Life and the other, a flash-based web site that has a video game quality to it. government???s

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

DECEMBER 18, 2018

We called up Jen Tolentino, Director of Policy & Civic Tech at Rock the Vote to talk about their mobilization strategy and the role of technology in organizing. Censored musicians, rappers, and record producers began to push back and create a movement to organize young people who would care about this issue.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 4, 2014

Data governance policies will be reviewed (created for the first time?), Also keep in mind that it is very difficult to discover every data migration issue that lurks in your old database until you start testing files and seeing how the old data looks in the new CRM. Think about our friends in the advocacy world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

In recent years, there have been great strides in government transparency, due in large part to the activities of the Sunlight Foundation to pry open the hidden vaults of government data. Particularly disturbing is the bad odor that this new political force will attach to nonprofit advocacy.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Issues-Based Strategic Planning Model An issues-based strategic planning model can be used when your organization’s internal operations are in more turbulent conditions. An issues-based nonprofit strategic planning model is a living plan. When it does become unstable, that means it’s time to switch to a different model.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 19, 2018

From these small seeds at the community level we can measure injustice and wasted potential, and turn this into powerful advocacy tools in the fight for women and girls to be seen. In reality, the complex drivers behind different pay need to be unpicked, policies developed and societal attitudes challenged.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The program provides focused attention on key compliance issues for both private foundations and charitable organizations, plus practical walk-throughs of an IRS audit and an Attorney General Investigation. It also offers an interactive opportunity to discuss key forms and governing documents(Form 1023 and Forms 990 and 990-PF.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

They create social capital or value by making their skills, resources, and knowledge available to each other. Engagement in the network provides a bigger benefit than to the individual member, the networks can work on finding solutions to big social issues. Governance: Who decides what the network will do, how do they decide?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 14, 2015

Is Your Organization Engaged in Public Policy Discussions? Politics and public policy don’t often go hand in hand with the nonprofit experience. However, as we look deeper into the issues that impact our country, perhaps they should. Should Your Organization Engage in Public Policy Discussions?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

In 2017, Equal Measures 2030 —an independent civil society and private sector-led partnership—was established in order to connect data and evidence with advocacy and action as a means to drive gender equality and reach the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. . The Sustainable Development Goals promise to leave no one behind.

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