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  • Writing Effective Notes to Your Elected Officials

    Lisa Hazirjian, Ph.D., Win Together Consulting

  • Seven Questions to Answer Before You Make Your Ask

    While written to help nonprofit leaders think strategically about public policy advocacy, these seven steps are useful to follow when developing fundraising asks, internal programmatic or organizational policy proposals, or other kinds of requests. (Shared with permission by Lisa Hazirjian, Ph.D., Win Together Consulting)

     

  • Communications in a Post-COVID World: How to Advocate Strategically for Your Nonprofit’s Mission

    When COVID-19 hit, our world changed. Organizations had to decide how to move forward while dealing with unanswered questions about what this would mean for your team, for your stakeholders, and for your partners. While nonprofits’ missions are more important than ever, the public, media, and funders are focused on work and messages directly related to COVID-19.

  • Beyond Heroism: Nonprofit Communications Tactics for Essential Employee Advocacy

    The COVID-19 pandemic launched essential employees into the spotlight. Suddenly, everyone from local nonprofits to massive corporations wanted to uplift these team members. For some, it was a PR tactic; for others, it was the perfect time to highlight the critical work of essential employees, often without the salaries or recognition they deserve.

  • Pandemic Recovery and Public-Private Partnerships

    With program demands and financial stresses on nonprofits likely to increase in 2021, how can public and private partnerships work better together to support fragile nonprofit operations and disrupted service delivery systems caused by COVID-19?  How can they complement and leverage each other’s resources to strengthen nonprofits’ capacity to continue to deliver vital services? This workshop will explore the opportunities and challenges of these partnerships to support the nonprofit sector in the new world order.

  • What the 2020 Election Results Mean for Nonprofits

    Join the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits for a webinar where you'll discover:

    Highlights of election results and what they mean for nonprofits. Prospects for policy solutions (and potential challenges) for the nonprofit sector policy at the state and federal level in 2021. What to expect on major policy issues in 2021 and beyond.

    Watch now!

  • What Does the 2020 Election Mean for Nonprofits?
    Last updated: November 23, 2020

    David Heinen, Vice President for Public Policy and Advocacy

    With the results of the 2020 election dominating news coverage and social media, you may be wondering what the election results mean for North Carolina nonprofits. To help answer your questions, here is an initial analysis of the nonprofit implications of the election results.

  • There’s Always Common Ground

    Jeanne C. Tedrow, President & CEO, North Carolina Center for Nonprofits

  • What’s Your Plan? Seven Steps to Get Unstuck and Promote the Nonprofit Vote

    Lisa Hazirjian, Ph.D., Win Together Consulting

    What if elections were decided by voters who believe in your nonprofit’s mission and share your organization’s core values?

  • Nonprofits Communicating Data to External Audiences

    While acknowledging the constraints nonprofits experience when attempting to collect and communicate data about their programs and services, Expanding Audience and Impact: Nonprofits Communicating Data to External Audiences encourages nonprofits to share data (in a variety of formats such as narrative, chart, graphics) with audiences outside of their organization.

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