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Advocacy for everyone: 6 ways to help your supporters take action

EveryAction

That’s why we often say that advocacy is for everyone: when decisions are being made that affect your organization’s work, mission, and vision, it just makes sense to get involved, unite your supporters, and move them to take action with you in pursuit of a specific mission-oriented goal. This means their voices hold power in a range of ways.

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4 Easy ways to recruit for your virtual lobby day

EveryAction

Virtual lobby days may be accessible to more people than in-person events; new supporters may be looking for a lower-barrier way to get involved; and virtual events can help you build the power in numbers that any organization needs for a successful advocacy effort. Looking for more ways your technology can boost your advocacy program?

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Cut Through the Clutter: Why Storytelling Matters for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Michelle Chen , an independent scholar who recently graduated with a PhD in mass communications with a focus on advocacy, activism and social change. Millennials are the largest generation in the U.S. Stories also need to connect, inspire and motivate people to act. People want to know and see the impact of their donations.

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Modern Advocacy Requires Modern Tools

Connection Cafe

Given the rapid growth in grassroots advocacy initiatives at organizations large and small, we’ve been talking a lot in our office about the opportunities nonprofits have to drive new types of engagement through advocacy and what makes an organization effective. ” How it does that presents quite a few lessons.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Tweets with links have an 86% higher retweet rate and higher engagement overall because people are hesitant to retweet or engage with tweets that do not have a source or a call-to-action. People who are active on Twitter tend to be plugged into current events and trending news. Include a link in your tweets as often as possible.

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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

And, the focus of MEL is generally on evaluating grantee projects or organizations, rather than on the grantmaker and its practices. All too frequently, the grantmaker alone is determining, leading, and benefiting from MEL processes with no input or collaboration from the people, organizations or community impacted.

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How Much Traffic Should Your Website Generate?

Care2

Are you a small membership driven organization or an advocacy organization? Just because you write a great blog post or release an informative special report does not mean people will flock to your website to read it. Do you focus on broad issues or super niche issues?