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4 Quick Tips to Remember When Planning an Advocacy Campaign

Top Nonprofits

If you’ve ever led an advocacy campaign, you know that it has an incredible number of moving pieces. That’s why planning is the most important stage in your advocacy campaign. Throughout the planning and action stages of your advocacy campaign, you’ll collect a ton of data. Rely on established relationships.

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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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Nonprofit Advocacy: 4 Strategies You Should Consider

Get Fully Funded

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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Thursday Thoughts: attracting passionate nonprofit advocates

EveryAction

Board members, donors, coalitions partners, and folks who have signed a national list but have not taken a local action are all good places to find some of your best volunteers. A full-service marketing and creative agency, Media Cause helps nonprofits accelerate their impact. We are short 100 signatures to reach our goal—act now!”

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10 Blogging Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This is the third post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Related Webinar: Website & Email Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits. 2) Advocacy CTA on the Union of Concerned Scientists blog.

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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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Preparing Your Association for AI

Association Analytics

AI has garnered a lot of global and national attention across most industries in recent months. For example, if you’re a marketing specialist, you might ask the tool to help compose tweets for podcast promotions or come up with a few subject lines for your emails.