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4 Quick Tips to Remember When Planning an Advocacy Campaign

Top Nonprofits

By following these suggestions during your planning process, you’ll be better prepared to drive awareness and make meaningful change at a local, national, or global level: Set clear campaign goals and identify a timeline. If you’re a new organization without many resources or contacts, you may have more luck working first at the local level.

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Blog Action Day 2010: Water

Amy Sample Ward

More people have access to a cell phone than to a toilet. The first step in making change in your life, local community or world is to learn. You may have been part of the day of action by participating in an event in your local area. Find more pictures and stories from #101010 and 350.org 350 action in Oman Dive Center.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Working together, citizens could piece together news stories as well as facts from witnesses as they emerged to create the most complete picture of events. Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. Reports of violence and of peace efforts could be placed via the web or mobile phone.

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Technology Toolbox: Learn from Occupy Wall Street to Occupy YOUR Street

Amy Sample Ward

Be as we have seen in events around the world, the revolution will be tweeted, photographed, mapped and posted to our status. Thankfully for members of #OWS, there are various tools to livestream events, just from your mobile phone. “The revolution will not be televised.”

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Tech Tips for Executive Directors: 5 Mobile Apps for Busy Nonprofit Leaders

NTEN

With this being said, here is a list of five apps you may not already have on your phone but are worth considering: Lookout mobile security app - Lookout provides a free option to locate your device once it goes missing or is stolen. These advanced options will require access to the premium edition, which isn’t free.

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Answer these 6 questions to frame your fundraising plan structure

Get Fully Funded

Set up a table at community events, your local farmer’s market, and festivals. Include grant deadlines, your signature event, appeals, and everything else you need to get a complete picture of your year. It’s important to engage your best donors, especially those who write larger checks, via occasional phone calls and text messages.

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Ushahidi Develops Innovative Tools for Nonprofits and Others Working to Benefit the Public

Tech Soup

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Since then, it has since logged, mapped, and tracked more than 14,000 reports of petrochemical pollution. It puts one type of data on a map.

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