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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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Looking for long-term impact? Advocacy is a must

M+R

A recent article by the Associated Press sheds light on a troubling trend: nonprofit organizations, particularly 501(c)(3)s, are becoming increasingly wary of lobbying and advocacy efforts. It’s a moment to boldly lean into advocacy, embracing it as a powerful tool for change and cultural disruption. Embrace advocacy.

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9 Tips for Creating a Social Media Advocacy Campaign

Media Cause

Amidst the constant stream of news updates, social media advocacy campaigns offer people a relevant way to make a difference on the issues they care about. As we enter an era of record-breaking advocacy numbers, here are 9 tips for positioning your advocacy campaigns on social media: 1. Acknowledge the power of advocacy

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Customized Campaigns that Win

M+R

Facing the Problem For so many issues I’ve worked on, the problem is not that we, the advocates, don’t have a solution. A legislative advocacy campaign must overcome natural inertia—a sufficient number of lawmakers must be convinced that taking action will have more benefit (or less backlash) than not taking action.

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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. MESG Marketing Mary Getz, principal and founder Yes, it’s true—when an issue is breaking there is a flurry of activity. Here’s what they said.

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Thursday Thoughts: attracting passionate nonprofit advocates

EveryAction

When you have a goal to meet—like asking a governing body to sign a bill into law, telling a CEO or other stakeholder to change a behavior or policy, or meeting goals around educating decision-makers on your issue area—you know you can’t do it alone. You need to activate your base and to move the needle on your issue.

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So Your Issue is on the Docket: A SCOTUS Media Checklist, Part One

M+R

If your work involves one of these issues (or one of the many others on the docket!), Today, we’ll tackle how to start building out your communication plan once you know that your issue is going before SCOTUS. This is no time for any organization—no matter the issue(s) on which they work—to simply go it alone.

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