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Following Through on Climate Commitments After COP26

Saleforce Nonprofit

From the Malala Fund to the University of Maryland to LEGO, the momentum for climate-related change is just beginning — led by insights from children, women and girls, engineers, and investors. University of Maryland. We are seeing a changing tide of those who care and are, as a result, getting involved. World Wildlife Fund.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

Foundations in the United States focus their funding priorities on many different issues. Education is one of the more popular issues that many foundations focus on. Their strategic focus of leaders, teachers, and families also incorporates support for one of the strongest early childhood policy and advocacy networks in the nation.

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New on SSIR: Effects of Joining the Conversation

Amy Sample Ward

The Hatcher Group , a Maryland-based public affairs and communications firm, released a great report this past Fall called New Media & Social Change: How Nonprofits are Using Web-based Technologies to Reach Their Goals (PDF). Joining the conversation is incredibly important if these organizations expect to change policy and change minds.

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TechSoup Member Organizations Doing Great Work During Hard Times

Tech Soup

It provides policy analysis and advocacy, institutional organizing, training development, and strategic communications. Some organizations are created to tackle multiple social issues through creative solutions. Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition — Boston. It is a unified voice of more than 140 organizations.

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How to Effectively Engage Lawmakers at Town Hall Meetings

Connection Cafe

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. Follow-up Politely.

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Funders: Considering Collaboration? Start With a Light Touch and See Where It Leads

sgEngage

Funder coalitions working at the city or state level can pool their resources to support data and research that backs policy change. These may include streamlining applications, providing general operating support, convening, and meeting with legislators to educate them on issues. . 6) Funding or Engaging in Advocacy .

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Social Media and Health Care (at SxSW)

Forum One

Three panelists steered the discussion: Ed Bennett, Manager of Web Operations at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Social media is excellent for crisis communications: Only a few weeks before the shootings at Fort Hood, Scott & White Health Care established its social media policies.