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Thursday Thoughts: engaging advocates all year round

EveryAction

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good. Advocacy is a long-term calling.  Check out our last installment here!

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New Report Highlights the Advocacy Gap

Care2

In 2005, the Congressional Management Foundation reported that communications to Congress had increased fourfold over the previous decade, and had doubled between 1999 and 2004. That is a ton of advocacy. How do activists experience advocacy, and how is it received by its ostensible targets on the Hill? To what end?

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Upturn In Trust For Nonprofits, Softness In The Numbers

The NonProfit Times

Making matters more concerning is 30% have high trust in nonprofits for providing factual, unbiased information about political candidates and policy issues. in its report “Trust in Nonprofits and Philanthropy: Strengths and Challenges in a Time of Division.” A plurality (41%) does not trust nonprofits to avoid partisan politics.

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Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

Non Profit Quarterly

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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The impact of COVID-19 on civil society, part two

Candid

In July 2020, Candid published a blog post examining the many surveys inquiring about social sector organizations’ needs in light of COVID-19. In the year since the outbreak, we have continued to track surveys from around the globe. This blog presents several common insights generated through these surveys.

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Drumroll, please! Landmark Research on Volunteer Engagement & Funding

VQ Strategies

After years of meetings, dialogue, presentations, advocacy, (and yes, maybe even some proverbial hair-pulling in frustration), today was the launch of the Initiative for Strategic Volunteer Engagement and the release of landmark research about how organizational leaders and funders view and prioritize volunteer engagement. Nearly half (46.8

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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.