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Racial Equity Message Guide
This guide includes tested messages for advocates to use with decisionmakers to secure racial equity language in public policy.
Social Media for Nonprofits - TechSoup Guides
Guides written for organizations seeking to use social media platforms for fundraising and mission advocacy.
The Nonprofit Jenni Show - Podcast
Nonprofit leaders to share their stories and advice for facing common management, marketing, and development challenges.
The Fundraising Talent Podcast
Podcast with over 200 episodes "asking our profession’s most difficult questions."
Microsoft Accessibility Learning Webinar Series
Free webinars for using accessibility features available to people with disabilities in the Microsoft software suite.
The Harvard 100: How to Take Care and Feed Your Nonprofit's Donor & Investor Base
What major donors want to hear in appeals and results donors/investors wish to see as an outcome of their charitable contributions.
Nonprofit Social Media Policies Toolkit
Creating policies for official and personal use of social media by your organization's personnel.
Nonprofit Social Media Strategy: How to Implement a Plan and Measure Success
Guide for creating social media goals, staging online campaigns, and measuring outcomes.
Sample Nonprofit Crisis Communications Plan Template
Use this sample nonprofit crisis communications plan template to ensure that you respond promptly, accurately, and confidently during an emergency--and in the hours and days that follow.
Seeing is Believing: A Guide to Visual Storytelling Best Practices
Filled with examples of what to do and what to avoid, the guide seeks to help you select images that will create impactful campaigns, fundraise for your cause, and effectively raise awareness.
What Matters - Podcast
Conversations between doing incredible things in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in our community.
Seven Questions to Answer Before You Make Your Ask
Seven questions to help think strategically while crafting letters to legislators, fundraising asks, program proposals, and other requests.
Communications in a Post-COVID World: How to Advocate Strategically for Your Nonprofit’s Mission
(December 10, 2020 webinar) In this session, you’ll learn how to pivot your messaging, framing, storytelling, and advocacy to show your most important audiences why your work matters in a post-COVID-19 world. Real-world examples will highlight both successful and failed campaigns in the era of COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 advocacy, and break down best practices to effectively reach your target audience.
Beyond Heroism: Nonprofit Communications Tactics for Essential Employee Advocacy
(December 10, 2020 webinar) Based on advocacy data and research, this session offers tips, tools, and next steps for speaking to the right audiences, with the right message, in the right place to build an authentic and effective narrative about the future of essential work.
Storytelling: Communicating Your Mission with Infectious Passion
(December 10, 2020 webinar) Whether you’re telling the story through a grant proposal, a video message, a radio announcement, or one-on-one, you can use storytelling structure to help your donor see their role in making your mission a success.