EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

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. Ask advocates to send proclamation requests to their local leaders. Check out our last installment here!

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Need more help running your current programs? If so, you may be interested in starting a volunteer program. To help you build a sustainable volunteer program, in this guide, we’ll cover the essential steps for starting a volunteer program: Conduct a community needs assessment. Set goals for your volunteer program.

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Qgiv

MARCH 12, 2024

Corporate giving programs, which are akin to corporate social responsibility programs , often reflect a business’s moral compass. Learn how corporate giving programs can help your organization in this quick guide! Corporate giving programs help keep employees more engaged and loyal to the businesses providing them.

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Program Guide Giving Philanthropy 52

Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Nonprofit advocacy campaigns give your supporters a new way to get involved while furthering your mission through grassroots action. Plus, your nonprofit can attract new supporters interested in advocacy to your cause, growing your supporter network of donors and volunteers. Stay up to date with current advocacy trends.

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Advocacy Strategy Nonprofit Volunteer 59

The MatrixFiles

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Unfortunately, it continues to rise, spreading from national news down to the local level at an alarming rate. Members are increasingly distrustful of government and jaded about advocacy, leading to less engagement in advocacy and government affairs. How is declining trust affecting your association?

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

When smaller, place-based foundations collaborate and align their work, they provide unique value to local communities and nonprofits. 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.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

Understanding Community Leadership Community leadership involves actively engaging with local stakeholders, identifying shared goals, and working collaboratively towards achieving them. It encompasses activities such as community organizing, advocacy, and public service, empowering individuals to contribute to their communities.

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Roles Foundation Leadership Community 80

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 4, 2018

During my Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management (MNLM) studies, I gained an appreciation for volunteers and an interest in how volunteers can engage in advocacy. The terms advocacy and lobbying are generally used interchangeably to describe how nonprofits influence legislation and public policy. Who is Your Target Audience?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2020

Because members do not typically serve on boards to do the paperwork, but rather to support a mission, virtual collaboration frees up more in-person meetings to focus on program issues and less on administrative tasks. Depending on the members’ comfort level with tech, you may also need to do some training. 5) Display Tech Savvy.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

To mitigate the impacts of this pandemic on girls and secure a better future, we’ve found that supporting locally-led initiatives works best. Profound Change Starts With Local Partners. The initiative currently supports 57 Education Champions in eight countries with the greatest need. with radio-based education during the pandemic.

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Education Lebanon Nigeria Broadcast 92

Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

You can check out programs like the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Talk Away the Dark or attend a training by the American Association of Suicidology. If you want to take things a step further, look up your local crisis center or community hotline and become a trained volunteer.

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Awareness National Los Angeles Causes 52

DipJar

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It provides recreation, resources, and training to parents and caregivers, educators, first responders, clinicians, and others. Pathfinders for Autism provides support in three areas: recreation, resources, and training. Pathfinders for Autism is currently the only organization in Maryland training first responders on this issue.

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Maryland Baltimore Training Train 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Positive news about your mission and programs. Nonprofits tend to mostly tweet content about the sad state of affairs – international, national, state, and local. Breaking news relevant to your mission and programs. It’s hard to get noticed on Twitter without purchasing ads even if you have a large following.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2021

The effects of federal policy often trickle down to the state and local levels. This creates implications for an organization’s beneficiaries in regards to available resources and funding for programming. Organizational support is a precondition for successful public policy advocacy. Establish support. Establish the Who and How.

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Policy Public Impact Illinois 52

The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Nonprofit organizations serve as community leaders and agents of change, and participating in Hispanic Heritage Month can solidify their advocacy for diversity and inclusion. Celebrate their contributions to local culture and economy. Drive Community Progress: Start programs that target prosperity within the Latino community.

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Celebrate Voice Artist America 59

Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

You might identify a new area of need or a more efficient way to make an impact, but if you pivot your programs and donors don’t understand why, you risk losing their trust. Do you offer any new programs? Has your mission pivoted due to a global or local event? How have your programs improved their lives?

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Everyaction

JUNE 6, 2018

There is no better time to support local and national nonprofits protecting LGBTQ rights and serving the LGBTQ community, and while there are far too many organizations doing great work to list them all, these are a few that we're big fans of. They work at the local, state, and federal level to advance transgender equality.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Faithforce , Salesforce’s interfaith employee resource group, has partnered with Salesforce Philanthropy and Salesforce.org for the past four years to educate, spread awareness, and support refugees around the world by observing World Refugee Day, where we come together each year to learn, share, and give back to help refugees locally and globally.

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Education Change Philanthropy Global 69

Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

They currently partner with 48 local organizations in 17 countries that work to secure equal educational access and high-quality education for all children. The Kars4Kids Small Grant Program is dedicated to supporting educational initiatives around the country, helping to impact more children. Areas served: US (limited worldwide).

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

For example, the National Council of Nonprofits offers a range of resources, including information on board diversity and inclusion , as well as leadership development programs. However, we can actively try to build cross-community bridges in an attempt to understand our own locality from other points of view.

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Accessibility Challenge Leadership Tips 108

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. Building buzz and press for an advocacy action. Building local chapters. Recruiting applicants to a fellowship program. Diverse Goals. Raising funds.

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Advocacy Community Build Storytelling 72

Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Historically, environmental and conservation organisations have led the charge through their advocacy and campaign work. The funding landscape is changing: Climate action will likely become a dominant funding category in the coming years, and nonprofits should be mindful of this when designing new programs or applying for repeat funding.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Investing in a new CRM is a costly decision, from the migration of all of your nonprofit’s data to the training needed to familiarize your team with the new solution. You’ll also need to budget for nonprofit technology consulting and team training to ensure your nonprofit is making most of the CRM.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

The Benetech Human Rights Program (HRP) is hard at work to ensure that technology and science best meet the needs of human rights defenders in these critical times. Benetech's Human Rights Program also received this year great recognition by the media and by experts in the field of human rights.

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Everyaction

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Reproductive Health Access Project works at the crossroads of the medical community and the reproductive rights space to mobilize and train clinicians to ensure access to abortion, contraception, and miscarriage care. It wasn’t just the training, but the systems and laws in place that made it difficult to provide care.

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Accessibility Project Advocacy Grant 69

Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2017

Given these difficult times, we'd like to feature some local organizations that are doing great work, but not getting a lot of attention every day. Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition — Boston. Additionally, it offers a 24-hour hotline, counseling, legal services, and advocacy services.

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North Carolina Massachusetts Work San Diego 36

Forum One

AUGUST 26, 2021

Any technology being implemented and operationalized—whether at the Federal, State, or Local level—must not only be up-to-date but accessible for a wide range of audiences. Whether focusing on employee training to improve federal growth efforts or testing new systems, innovation needs to be at the forefront of federal modernization efforts.

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Government Podcast Digital Accessibility 46

DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

You also gain a full picture of the software your team is currently working with, which can inform your fundraising, advocacy, stewardship, and technology-related efforts going forward. Training: Does your entire team understand how to interact with the software they need to operate effectively? Investing in staff technology training.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 23, 2017

At the beginning of September, they started CORE Training, the first step on a life-changing journey. Over the next 10 months, this diverse group of up-and-coming leaders will serve full-time at local nonprofit organizations and learn the skills to start careers in the nonprofit sector. Stage 4: Advocacy and Becoming Aware.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2017

As nonprofit leaders look ahead and think about how to significantly expand the impact of their advocacy campaigns, there is one key tactic that may be your secret to punching above your weight: Supporter-Led Campaigns. Local leaders have been running campaigns in coordination with other activists across the country and world for decades.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2014

Their movement-building approach was focused around a new web platform and programs. Also launched in 2011, the Dive Against Debris program asks dive shop operators and individual divers to become citizen scientists. Today, almost 400,000 pieces of trash from over 1000 dives appear on the interactive Dive Against Debris map.

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Awareness Project Data Map 99

Care2

JUNE 18, 2013

The letter hosted on the website www.overheadmyth.com comes on the heels of Dan Pallotta’s TED Talk and Keynote at NTC13, which sharply criticized funders and nonprofit rating service providers for penalizing nonprofits who spent what they considered too much money on administrative expenses, such as salaries, training, and benefits.

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Neon CRM

JULY 21, 2023

Duty of Obedience: It is the board’s job to ensure their organization follows all applicable local, state, and federal laws. It means determining programs and activities, managing supporter acquisition and retention, staffing, facilities, resources, and plans for future growth, all in service of your core mission.

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Nonprofit Government Roles Review 52

The Storytelling Non-profit

AUGUST 23, 2020

In offices that have a combination of these programs, staff typically oversee what’s called portfolio management where they decide which donor prospects get to move into new giving opportunities. The book This is an Uprising is also an excellent resource that is a companion to their trainings. What some think of as the donor pyramid.

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Develop Giving Model Gift 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. I have the honor of co-training with some of the best folks doing work in this part of the world. Points of connection included: -Training. Working with NGOs.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 19, 2018

Going beyond one-off share asks, some nonprofits (and political campaigns) ask supporters to sign up to receive more-frequent requests to share content socially, perhaps as part of a larger super-advocate program. Likewise, you can encourage them to talk with local political officials when appropriate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

That night we discussed starting a Facebook page to document our training and gain our friend’s emotional support, but our random spurts of creative ideas led us to something bigger. Click here to learn more about the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance and their CNP credential program. became a familiar face amongst the local community.

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Test Advocacy Nonprofit Fun 81