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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. Set clear campaign goals and identify a timeline.

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Advancing Equity in Philanthropy with Resolve and Resilience: A Call to Action

sgEngage

The existential need for philanthropy indicates that structures exist that fail to meet basic human needs. Even though laws and structures are often driven from the top down, it is a combination of top-down leadership and grassroots movements that create sustainable change.

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Empowering Community Voices: The Strategic Advantage of Nonprofit Advisory Committees

Blue Avocado

1 While all of these are useful tools for program development and planning, there is another strategy that provides consistent access to community input while also routinely building a supportive foundation from diverse, innovative ideas: the creation of strong advisory committees. Create structure.

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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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Pre-COVID, we had a program called the Milwaukee Kitchen Cabinet. More likely to be successful in advocacy and public policy. Look for partners who could– Help your members achieve policy or practice goals, provide community support, or enhance their public credibility. But COVID reinforced that lesson.

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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. Advocacy is a long-term calling. Check out our last installment here! Here’s what they said. Learn more at MESG.marketing !

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The Five Building Blocks of a Digital Advocacy Campaign, Part 1: Tell an Impactful Story

Media Cause

Coming from a background in community organizing and public policy — specifically in the anti-rape movement — I understand the importance of effective messaging in advocacy campaigns. At Media Cause, we conceptualize advocacy in that same vein: It’s about shifting the balance of power. Structure Your Message Effectively .

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10 LinkedIn Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If your nonprofit has a large following on LinkedIn and a signature program that is well-known to the public, then a Showcase Page could be worth time and effort. Breaking news that communicates the story of your mission and programs. Of all social media, LinkedIn is the platform best suited for employee advocacy.

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