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[Breaking News] An Extraordinary Funding Opportunity For Nonprofits To Preserve Local Journalism

Bloomerang

Press Forward seeks to reverse the dramatic decline in local news that has coincided with an increasingly divided America and weakening trust in institutions. Around 2,200 local newspapers have closed since 2005, resulting in 20 percent of Americans living in “news deserts” with little to no reliable coverage of important local events.

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How to Communicate Meaningfully with Nonprofit Supporters in an Election Year

Media Cause

It’s more important than ever to share your mission in a way that is real, relevant, and sensitive to what’s going on within your organization’s environment and the impact of your work. Remember, as you navigate the news cycle and other big issues, they shouldn’t take away from the importance of your work as a nonprofit.

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22 Online Gift Stores That Benefit Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NPR creates and distributes award-winning news,information, and music programming to a network of 959 independent stations. Public Broadcasting System (PBS) Online Shop. WWF’s mission is to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature. .

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How Nonprofits can Use Analytics with Advocacy

Connection Cafe

The first theme focuses on the interaction between advocacy tactics and the broader media environment. Think about the iconic advocacy/activist tactics of the industrial broadcast era: A march is just a long, crowded walk on a noisy day unless media organizations are there to cover it. Today’s hybrid media environment is still in flux.

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Connected Citizens Report: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Designing for serendipity: Creating environments, in person and online, where helpful connections can form. Decentralization and Individual Empowerment: As power is pushed to the edges, individuals will have an increasing ability to exert influence through social and broadcast media. These themes include: 1.

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An Open Letter to Museums on Twitter

Museum 2.0

If you are new to Twitter, please check out this post for more context. Dear Museums on Twitter, Thanks for experimenting in a new and largely uncharted online environment. Twitter is like a big radio party--everyone can broadcast and everyone can listen. The good news is that no one is doing this wonderfully.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. There’s even some strange philanthropy news compliments of former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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