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. At Media Cause, we conceptualize advocacy in that same vein: It’s about shifting the balance of power. Identify Your Own Story .

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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. Check out our last installment here ! Here’s what our expert partners said.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 3, 2020

Nonprofit advocacy campaigns are becoming increasingly popular to help advance the mission of organizations. However, many organizations are under the impression that they must divide their attention between their advocacy campaigns and their fundraising efforts. In this case, many decide to ignore advocacy altogether. .

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EveryAction

JUNE 8, 2023

If your nonprofit does advocacy, you know that with this work, there are almost always consistent patterns of crisis management leading to later periods of denouement and down time. MESG Marketing Mary Getz, principal and founder Yes, it’s true—when an issue is breaking there is a flurry of activity.

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Media Cause

JUNE 29, 2024

Operational Efficiency : AI can automate administrative tasks such as scheduling meetings, sending internal and external reminders, and reviewing donor profiles, which frees up staff to focus on mission-critical activities. Every organization should create an AI Usage Policy. The Fundarising.AI The Fundarising.AI

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Candid

JULY 8, 2024

Foundation program officers and government officials can unintentionally limit the impact of community-based organizations by funding them to serve only a specific demographic group and a narrow set of activities. Tackling root causes involves year-round voter engagement and policy advocacy.

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M+R

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

This year, a record 27 regional food banks participated in M+R’s annual Benchmarks Study covering mostly digital fundraising, marketing, advertising, and advocacy metrics (and here’s another plug…if you haven’t dug into this year’s study, do it now!). As we’ve said before , advocacy is a must for long-term impact.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 28, 2024

In this research, donors may look at a nonprofit’s partnerships, sponsorships, major funders, activities, populations served, board composition, leadership, and financial activity. These advances have made it easier for donors to give and share their donation activity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Since then it has grown from 106 million active monthly users to 310 million active monthly users. In fact, according to the Global NGO Technology Report , 27% of nonprofits worldwide have an official policy to allow staff to work on their LinkedIn Profiles during work hours. 4) Experiment with LinkedIn Ads (maybe).

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M+R

MAY 17, 2022

Donald was one of the original (Ralph) “Nader’s Raiders,” tasked with traveling the country and turning college student energy into student advocacy groups. Donald went on to lead New York’s PIRG (NYPIRG) into a powerhouse of an advocacy organization and organized one of the largest protests of the 1970s with 100,000 people on the mall in DC.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation. This has led to situations where BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ users are disproportionately affected by policies meant to address “bad” behaviors.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Explore Media Cause experts’ top five communication tips to consider as you roll out your advocacy , fundraising , and engagement strategies during an election year. Policy and marketing team members within your nonprofit can make a great team to plan accordingly. Be careful to comment on policy, not politics.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 10, 2017

For nonprofits interested in engaging supporters in online advocacy, this is especially true. So what is a nonprofit supposed to do when trying to activate supporters around a critically important issue to their cause? Through a campaign, WWF activated supporters to oppose Congress’s attempt to overturn the Clean Power Plan.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Is there a long-term need for your nonprofit, or could the issue be solved with a smaller-scale fundraising campaign or project? However, if your idea isn’t very large in scope, a one-time crowdfunding campaign or peer-to-peer fundraising event could achieve the results you’re hoping for. The answer could be “both.”

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2016

A few months ago, the MAH board and staff started discussing whether and how to create a formal policy for advocacy activities. Want to go straight to the policy? Why create an advocacy policy? Regardless of your institutional mission, nonprofits are all in the advocacy business. Here it is.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to research by the Congressional Management Foundation, nearly half of congressional staff believe that “most advocacy campaigns of identical form messages are sent without the constituent’s knowledge or approval.”. Era of Increased Activism and Grassroots Campaigning. Enter Susan. It will take time.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

We would focus on promoting research and elevating awareness about the benefits of postsecondary education in prison and the need for incarcerated people to access Pell Grants, all while trying to change state policies to provide more financial support and generate momentum for federal action. Two years in, we expanded our focus to the U.S.

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NTEN

JANUARY 25, 2022

The membership committee was restarted in 2021 to discuss topics ranging from our website redesign to NTC member options to ways to activate the community around our beliefs and advocacy campaigns. 2022 focus. Sponsors and exhibitors. 2021 review highlights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2012

Over the past couple of years as I’ve guide nonprofits in preparing their social media policies or when I speak, I get asked questions that are more legal questions than about social media. Here’s a sampling: Our organization does advocacy around some policy issues. Cite a case example. What is lobbying?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

As a nonprofit professional, you appreciate the fact that email campaigns are an affordable and effective way to reach as many clients, donors, members and media as possible. You've developed e-advocacy tools to rush public policy action alerts to supporters who can advocate for fair and ethical local, national and global policies.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

However, we can actively try to build cross-community bridges in an attempt to understand our own locality from other points of view. Review and update the organization’s policies and practices to ensure that they are fair and inclusive for all members of the community. Add advancement of BIPOC staff where you can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Charts: Compare funding for different activities and display it on a trends chart, bar chart or wind rose (circular bar chart). It encompasses a vast array of activities from developing mobile phone apps to launching advocacy campaigns to strengthening the policies and infrastructures involved in media creation, transmission and access.

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DNL OmniMedia

MARCH 13, 2023

If you need a solution with out-of-the-box tools, key CRM software features to look for include the ability to create donor profiles, track donations, automate digital marketing activities, send automated donation acknowledgments, allow online event registration, set up online petitions, and host peer-to-peer fundraising pages.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

million grant from the Stanton Foundation to work with academic experts on Wikipedia articles related to public policy, which could include everything from political theory to legislative history and issues such as health reform and science. But what is in it for campaigners trying to bring about social change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

Note from Beth: What if your organization embarked on its first ever crowd funding campaign with a goal of raising $50,000 and only raised $10,000? Director of Programs and Policy answered a few questions about how they used learning and pivoting to get better results. Why did you decide to do a crowd-funding campaign in 2012?

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Pamela Grow

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Some training policies you might enforce include: Software use: Many mistakes can be made if staff members simply don’t know how to use your software. Cybersecurity measures : Train your team on identifying fraudulent activities, like phishing emails or ransomware.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 10, 2021

It keeps supporters and prospective supporters regularly updated and contributes to maintaining an active list of email addresses. to promote your organization’s events or activities. Consider implementing one or two solid list-building activities a year, like this one from Children’s Medical Center. Your Goals.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Inspired by Malala and Ziauddin Yousafzai’s early activism, Malala Fund launched the Education Champions Network to identify and scale the work of local educators and advocates. To mitigate the impacts of this pandemic on girls and secure a better future, we’ve found that supporting locally-led initiatives works best.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JUNE 2, 2020

For example, raising $100,000 from 3 major gifts and 2 annual giving campaigns. There are lot of projects and supporting activities that need to happen to bring it to fruition. There are lot of projects and supporting activities that need to happen to bring it to fruition.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

This shows respect for your candidates’ time and efforts and lets them know whether you are actively considering their application. These signs could include but are not limited to indications of burnout, miscommunication issues, poor engagement, underperformance, or misalignment with workplace policies.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 14, 2024

This shows respect for your candidates’ time and efforts and lets them know whether you are actively considering their application. These signs could include but are not limited to indications of burnout, miscommunication issues, poor engagement, underperformance, or misalignment with workplace policies.

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Care2

MARCH 11, 2014

This years 14NTC conference is packed with incredible parties ( including an 80s dance party that I''m co-hosting with Salsa), and the Care2 Impact Prize that recognizes individuals in the nonprofit sector who have made an outstanding impact on the field of online advocacy, online fundraising or both. 14NTC Sessions. million organizations.

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2012

Social media experts from Blackbaud and Common Knowledge will share best practices, while featured nonprofits will show how they have leveraged social media for successful events, advocacy, fundraising, service delivery, and much more. Register now for the first two events in the series! Making Change at the Local Level Using Social Media.

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Neon CRM

JULY 21, 2023

But the board is responsible for ensuring that the nonprofit has all the necessary legal, ethical, financial, and overall good governance policies in place to succeed long-term. Your board will have a hand in establishing and monitoring policies and procedures for your organization. That responsibility falls to the lead executive(s).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The members of these networks are intentional about building, strengthening, and maintaining relationships with one another that generates collaborative activities together. Both coalitions and movements tend to be more temporary – disbanding when the campaign is over. What’s the secret sauce?

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Identify priorities for the types of programs and services you’ll offer to support your goals, target audience for your services, target supporter audiences, advocacy and public policy aims, and branding or marketing objectives. Who is responsible for each objective and what activities they will complete to work toward the objective.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Once you’ve applied to the program, you’ll need to set up your account, create your ads, and actively monitor performance. The program is most helpful for organizations that have discussion-worthy causes and content centered around related topics that people are actively searching for online.

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