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Advocacy and Awareness: 4 Tips for Virtual Campaigning

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Advocacy campaigns have evolved over the past few years, dramatically changing how nonprofit advocacy is conducted. While traditional methods can still impact supporters, more and more organizations interested in starting an advocacy initiative look to virtual campaigns first. Use technology with a face-to-face component.

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Pairing Advocacy and Fundraising: The Peas and Carrots of Digital Engagement

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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

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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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Gen Z Is Ready to Join Your Junior Board of Directors

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Although not ready or able yet to make a monetary donation, many 20-somethings are eager to support your cause through advocacy, social influence, and volunteering. Here’s the good news: If done strategically, you can easily weave Gen Z into your existing board development , partnerships, and marketing efforts over time.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Positive news about your mission and programs. With so much stressful, depressing news in the world today, positive news stands out. Breaking news relevant to your mission and programs. People who are active on Twitter tend to be plugged into current events and trending news. Twitter can be mean.

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Nonprofit Technology News: Help for Charities to Develop Mobile Giving Capacity

Tech Soup

Our lead story in this issue of TechSoup’s Nonprofit Technology News is the creation of the Mobile Giving Alliance that will help charities develop their mobile giving. The new project is called the Mobile Giving Alliance. Facebook’s Problematic News Feeds. Do you have some NPTech news you’d like to report?

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What's the future of online advocacy?

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Several organizations who use Convio's Advocacy product had a stimulating discussion yesterday here at the Convio Summit about online advocacy and what the future of the field is going to look like. Author: Sally Heaven. This could include sending letters to targets, or not. Full disclosure - I was one of those people.