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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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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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BC nonprofits invited to participate in Vantage Point’s State of the Sector survey

Charity Village

The survey is meant to capture the “state of the not-for-profit sector” in British Columbia. Vantage Point anticipates the resulting report will help BC’s not-for-profits in their advocacy efforts and our sector’s ability […].

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Non-Profit Planning Series — Setting a Chief Initiative

The Storytelling Non-profit

Whatever your chief initiative, it must make sense for your non-profit. Don't just set a chief initiative that looks good on paper but fails to account for your non-profit's unique circumstances, resources, history, etc. It is the high level goal that you've identified as a top priority and that you plan to work diligently towards.

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New Report Highlights the Advocacy Gap

Care2

That is a ton of advocacy. How do activists experience advocacy, and how is it received by its ostensible targets on the Hill? We partnered up with eight non-profit organizations to survey their advocates and interviewed 25 current and former senior Hill staffers. To what end?

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When Nonprofit Advocacy Works in Reverse

Connection Cafe

Donors support your non-profit via gifts and volunteerism , they want to share your mission with others, and then they become super advocates. How Nonprofit Advocacy Works in Reverse. The solution: We flipped the advocacy model upside down by creating RiversidePULSE. . We take for granted a natural progression.

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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

.orgSource

More likely to be successful in advocacy and public policy. Look to the corporate sector, government, civic, or other associations or non-profit organizations to find collaborators who will add value. Associations that have strategic partnerships are— You want allies who will provide a hedge against the unexpected.

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