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LGBTQ+ advocacy strategies to generate advocates year-round

EveryAction

While there’s often increased attention on issues affecting the community during Pride month, meaningful and lasting change happens when advocacy happens year-round. Key types of advocacy Issue awareness Before organizations can create advocates for their cause, they need to make people aware of the issues they’re trying to solve.

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Lessons Learned Living the Virtual Experiment

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Both participants must be aware of context, or unspoken emotional dynamics and backstory, that might influence the outcome.” It is also a fun and effective way to ease into conversations about communication, behavior, trust, and other interpersonal issues that are important to keeping culture on track.”

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4 Easy ways to recruit for your virtual lobby day

EveryAction

Before your event, use an email series to give supporters a refresher on the policy issues you’re working on and how they’re impacting the community. Petitions are a popular way for nonprofits to generate attention and are a relatively low-effort way for new supporters to get involved.

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Nonprofit Public Relations For Beginners: How To Gain More Attention In Less Time

Kindful

This blog post will help provide some quick tips and techniques for helping your mission get more attention in less time. The best stories to pitch the media (or include in any communication materials) have the following: Struggle/Solution : What community/personal issues does your organization address? Emotion : People act on emotion!

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Solving the Donor Retention Rate Issue: The Case for Creating a Board-level Donor Thank You Committee

Bloomerang

As important as it is to pay attention to donor retention, it’s equally important to know how to “move the needle”—and we do. We know from Dr. Sargent’s work that customer service is an important influencer of donor loyalty. But clearly, not enough of us do it. Increases the likelihood of a second gift by 33%.

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Build a Successful Team, Know Where Your People Thrive

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But by paying close attention to your team’s emotions and behavior, you will improve your ability to put staffers in the right seats and keep them engaged and motivated. Of course, it’s important to consider skills. Here’s an illustration of this idea from my experience.

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Thought Leaders Blaze Trails of Discovery and Engagement

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Influencers are not necessarily thought leaders. Review expense policies, conflict of interest, or any other relevant policies or ethical issues. In a YouTube world thought leaders command attention. So, this exercise is also a marketing tool. First, let’s make this distinction. You are looking for experts. This is critical.

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