EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

When you have a goal to meet—like asking a governing body to sign a bill into law, telling a CEO or other stakeholder to change a behavior or policy, or meeting goals around educating decision-makers on your issue area—you know you can’t do it alone. You need to activate your base and to move the needle on your issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Note from Beth: Last spring, I had the pleasure of meeting Ashley Boyd,Campaign Director, for MomsRising.org who told me about Joyful Funerals. Ashley and her colleague Anita – as well as the whole team at Momsrising does a fantastic job of reflecting after each campaign on how it could be improved. Flickr Photo by Vox Photo.

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Media Cause

APRIL 19, 2021

As we celebrate Earth Day 2021, we are recognizing all the ways climate change impacts everything around us—highlighting a new issue each day. Yerina Mugica , Managing Director at NRDC, Healthy People & Thriving Communities Program . Use your voice to advocate for those impacted by Environmental Justice.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We need every solution and every solver…What this moment calls for is a mosaic of voices — the full spectrum of ideas and insights for now we can turn things around.” – Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Executive Director, Trellis for Tomorrow. Wilkinson, ‘All We Can Save’. Why Climate Justice? Jennifer Anderson.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

She has been recognized with a Screen Actors Guild Award®, an Emmy®, and a Golden Globe®, and has a strong track record of using her platform to stand up to pressing societal issues. Join Don Rahn, Blackbaud’s Director of Security Operations, for information and best practices to keep cybersecurity at the forefront of your school operations.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

If your by-laws do NOT include these things, you and your Board need to make this a priority to create these policies and amend your by-laws as soon as possible. Or more importantly, discussing strategic issues that the Board NEEDS to be addressing? Questions about minor issues can be handled in those calls. Brainstorm.

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

MESG Marketing Mary Getz, principal and founder Yes, it’s true—when an issue is breaking there is a flurry of activity. ” Video updates: Ask a campaign director to record a short video outlining the most recent status of a campaign and what advocates can expect next. Here’s what they said.

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Achieve

JANUARY 3, 2018

Over the past year we have witnessed not only a change in administration and therefore policy, but there too has been a shift in the ways in which individuals engage in social issues and causes—many of which have been impacted by the new administration and associated policies. Why had their voices quieted?

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2022

It means servers, software, and policies that enable organizations to scale. Recognizing the Rise in the Voices the Organization Serves. Being closer to the community, individual nonprofits can see the issues affecting their clients. These days, infrastructure means more than just steel, asphalt, and copper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Algorithmic Bias: Better Policy and Practice for Civil Society: This podcast about #datadiscrimination and algorithmic bias was hosted by Digital Impact, an initiative of the Digital Civil Society Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS). You can watch the keynote on YouTube.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2022

According to the Race to Lead Revisited report , only 20% of organizations have been led by Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) CEOs or executive directors over the last 15 years. Utilizing strategies to ensure the efficacy of the training (e.g., Since then, she has been living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her two cats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

If your nonprofit’s executive director or CEO a thought leader? They are the respected voices who others turn to understand sector social change issues. CEOs are seen as experts on your brand, social change issues, and programs, thus their opinions are extremely valuable and trusted by the people in their networks.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Ideally, every three to five years, your board and staff directors will meet to realign regarding goals and begin the strategic planning process. When it comes to strategic planning, there are a few common hesitations that nonprofits voice throughout the process. An issues-based nonprofit strategic planning model is a living plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2014

The panelists included: Cindy Johanson , Executive Director, Edutopia. Matt Fitzgerald , Attention Lab Director, Upwell. Humberto Kam , Director, Online Engagement & Marketing, Monterey Bay Aquarium. Abdi Soltani , Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. ” Yes! fitz350 #SMoP14.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

If anything, I have been encouraged to develop a solid social media strategy with help from our Director of Marketing, as well as continued support from my fellow marketing staff here. I am very lucky to work at an organization that values social media, and have never received push-back regarding investing my time and efforts there.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 30, 2022

Violence, Hate, and Discrimination is Still a Major Issue Across Europe and U.K. To understand more about how we can tackle the challenges and issues facing the LGBTQ+ community, we spoke with Aifric Ní Chríodáin, executive director at ShoutOut. Have a zero-tolerance policy for homophobia and hate speech.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

APRIL 5, 2019

With the Texas legislative session currently in progress, I called Tara Lee, Development Director of Texas Watch to talk about current policy issues and how they work to bridge the divide between their community and the political process. Our core issues are fighting for safety, justice, and accountability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2009

Yesterday, I attended a webinar about social media policies called " E-Privacy: Can You Legally Monitor MySpace, LinkedIn, E-mail, & Blogs? who is the Law & Technology Director at Fenwick & West LLP (F&W), a Silicon-Valley-based law firm. Beth: Do you have a social media policy at your foundation?

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Qgiv

JUNE 13, 2023

Having a diverse board of directors, with diverse lived experiences, “… Can bring a realistic view of the community, strengthen the organization’s connection and credibility to its constituency, improve fundraising, and assist with grants distribution ,” according to Forbes writer, Sahar Andrade, MB.BCh. Take a selfie!

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Now this is a big enough problem during board meetings, but when unclear boundary issues leak into day-to-day operations (as they eventually will) the agency may be headed for some PR, employee/staff attitude, and operational problems. Determine if the agency’s job descriptions for Board Chair, CEO and its directors are up to date.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 16, 2017

is any indication, it is the millennial generation who is standing up and using their voice – and in many different octaves – to combat the hate we are currently witnessing. She served as the Associate Director of Research at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy before coming to Achieve in 2015. If Achieve’s.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2021

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. What ignites your passion about an issue? . Organizations can tap into the power of personal story by uplifting the voices in their network.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 9, 2011

This usage should make us stop and consider whether a smattering of policy makers, scholars, and practitioners have introduced an idea that has meaning only to them, resulting in a grand con on the range of individual industries and activities that fit a vague notion of "public good." So, sector is important for policy advocacy.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

As many of you know, before joining NTEN as the Membership Director last year, I managed the NetSquared program which included locally-organized groups around the world, innovation challenges, and more. The other interviews include Sylwia Presley from Gobal Voices , and Claire Sale from NetSquared. I definitely recommend them both!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Gabriela Schneider, Chief Communications Officer at Issue One. While many nonprofit professionals talked about how their nonprofits were pressure cookers, Gabriela Schneider, Chief Communications Officer at Issue One, wrote in a comment how grateful she was that her organization promoted a culture of “we care” or wellbeing for its employees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It’s a complicated equation that brings together core human rights concerns about privacy, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and the direct practicalities of real-life struggle with the ways in which engineering, policy, legal and design decisions are made by companies, or placed upon them by the jurisdictions in which they operate.

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M+R

JULY 10, 2023

Whose voices are you choosing to elevate? You probably spend a lot of time thinking about your issue space, and closely following the news, and Being Online. Most of the time, you don’t need a policy briefing in order to make sense of the call to action. Does this sound or look like a policy briefing? Fair enough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We started with key results and worked backwards to technical assistance goals: Kids get health care coverage Policies are adopted More attention from policymakers. More and better partners, more and better relationships with reporters and more or better policy maker relationships. and storify. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

During this time, we saw policies such as child labor laws, suffrage for women and prohibition. and the cultural resistance to entering Vietnam in 1965, we saw how Americans began to organize and work together to tackle specific issues with a narrow focus. This gave them greater voice in the government.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 25, 2017

Why cover an event where an elected official and constituents have a calm conversation on public policy?) As a press secretary to a suburban Maryland congressman in the 1980s and 1990s, I worked the legislative issues by day and went to more than 100 town hall meetings at night. Tell a Personal Story. Use Numbers If You Have Them.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

When basketball players are offering more cogent commentary on racial issues than cultural institutions, you know we have a cultural relevance problem. New laws and policies will help, but any movement toward greater cultural and racial understanding and communication must be supported by our country’s cultural and educational infrastructure.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

How do we respond to common objectives such as a lack of interest, recent issues with the organization, or other giving priorities? Spend significant time working with your organization’s communication director to put this resource together. Issuing reports on campaign progress. How do we deal with different payment methods?

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

So I think the issue that I’m having is it’s not as simple as should organizations quit or not. We can use our voice and our economic power and our political power to actually make changes to the platform. How are we committed to anti-racist policies? Julia Campbell : This is one of my favorite topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

If the audience is local, it is important to framing content and issues for local geographic area. Determine a “friending” policy. Now that people can subscribe, you don’t have to friend everybody. I think the same advice applies to the question of whether or not Executive Directors should use social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2009

According to John Carlin, the Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel to the Director of the F.B.I, The conference, according to Jason Schultz , Co-Director of the Samuelson Clinic for Law , Technology and Public Policy, was designed as “a chance to address the ramifications of what happens when people write permanently to a giant network.”

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

“How we manage and harness technology for the good of mankind is the key issue of our time.” – Henry Timms, Executive Director, 92Y. Young people can use their social media and their following to not only draw attention to an issue but to educate people how to take action.”– Here they are, in no particular order.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2016

These realities make it more evident that each nonprofit needs a unified voice, powerful enough to withstand the process of making policy. Once public opinion changes the tide of a given issue, it becomes difficult to ignore, bottle up, or trade for another agenda item that is seemingly more pressing to the decision maker.

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