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Top Do’s and Don’ts for Fundraising While Navigating the News Cycle

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The nature of the news is frenetic and fluctuating. These critical factors take up space in your donors’ social media feeds, minds, and wallets, which impacts their generosity and the funds you are able to raise. 5 Do’s and Don’t of Navigating the News Cycle When Fundraising 1.

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Mindful News Consumption Tips for Nonprofit Professionals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Interestingly enough, almost everyone in this workshop had already put themselves on a “news diet.” One communications director shared that she scans the headlines every morning and only goes deep into stories that are relevant to their communications strategy and limits her time.

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Thought Leaders Blaze Trails of Discovery and Engagement

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Thought leadership helps bring your audience on a journey of shared understanding and insights, in order to drive toward impactful solutions. Industry events—Monitor the headline speakers and their audiences. Impact—Do their ideas and insights make a difference? Consider first-time speakers who draw a crowd. This is critical.

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How to Communicate Meaningfully with Nonprofit Supporters in an Election Year

Media Cause

and around the world, this coming November’s presidential election will be a stage on which events that impact society, economy, business, and philanthropy will play out. 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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The data/crisis catch-22: How the pandemic created a social sector data gap  

Candid

Unfortunately, social sector data has also been impacted. To some, this might feel like old news. 990s submitted in 2020) is the first year impacted by COVID. Starting in 2020, Candid increased efforts to collect “real-time” data about grants and pledges sourced from the news, press releases, and funder websites.

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Is climate change action the new face of natural disaster relief?

Candid

As extreme weather makes front-page headlines year-round, each news cycle brings fresh evidence that we are living in unprecedented times. Thinking big on climate change There is good news. This good news is tempered by the reality that climate funding remains a niche in the larger philanthropic ecosystem.

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Building Blocks of Effective Creative: Relevance

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It’s how we communicate compassion and outrage and hope, how we turn abstract and complex issues into concrete and immediate action. Other times, relevance is not about the ways an audience is directly impacted. as a donor, a monthly supporter, a volunteer, an activist, or someone completely new) makes creative more relevant.