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4 Quick Tips to Remember When Planning an Advocacy Campaign

Top Nonprofits

People crave a clearly articulated goal to connect with and promote. Instead of trying to recruit people who are brand new to your mission, it’s often more efficient and successful to rely on existing relationships when mapping your advocacy campaign. In general, use this structure for best results: Map out a story arc.

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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

3. After we create a shared network based on individual’s knowledge and skills, we move to the organizational network maps. Participants create a poster of their networks, view other the network maps of others, and then do a debrief. It Isn’t Enough To Tell People About Best Practices: Hands-On, Brains-On.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Having this network map on the wall during the whole training, let us as the trainers acknowledge the expertise and knowledge in the room. This exercise is very useful because after participants create their maps, they’re taped on the wall, and participants give feedback using sticky notes.

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7 Things I learned From #Beth53 Fundraiser and PoST Class

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chocolate activates the pleasure center of the brain, at least according to some research. After a nervous giggle, I shared with them that donating and volunteering does the same thing as chocolate to your brain. Self-expression is such a powerful thing to see and having people articulate it for your cause is the holy grail.

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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

Bloomerang

Expectations are critical for healthy relationships and so being able to be clear on those two things as a manager will also give your team members freedom and agency to be able to create boundaries and to be able to articulate expectations they might have because that’s the relationship aspect around time management.