communication strategies
Who Are You Talking To? The Peril of Assumptions in Nonprofit Communications
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A SCOTUS labor case offers a lesson in the merits of explanatory chains.
Nonprofit Management
Social Media Capital for Nonprofits: How to Accumulate It, Convert It, and Spend It
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This article is from the Nonprofit Quarterly’s Winter 2016 edition, “Social Media: The New Nonprofit Nonelective.” We’ve brought it forward today since the US Senate just voted to overturn the FCC’s revocation of net neutrality. Net neutrality, of course, aims to safeguard democratic access to the Internet where many nonprofits spend and accumulate social capital. While the Senate’s action is a positive step, the effort to restore net neutrality still faces many hurdles.
Nonprofit Management
Social Media Effectiveness for Public Engagement: An Example of Small Nonprofits
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This article from the Nonprofit Quarterly is a treasure trove of examples of how 26 small organizations respond to the challenges and constraints they encounter with their uses of social media for organizing and engagement.
communication strategies
What’s Plasticity Got to Do with It? Framing the Need for Children’s Programs
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Advocates for children and families have demonstrated the public’s capacity to understand the research and scientific principles behind brain science and early childhood development. Here, FrameWorks promotes metaphors that have the power to deepen public understanding of brain plasticity and resilience and to strengthen support for children at every stage of development.
communication
Communications as the New Nonprofit Core Competency
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Today, NPQ announces an exciting new partnership with the FrameWorks Institute to illuminate the art and science of framing contested social issues in public discourse.
technological fluency
Nonprofits and Digital Strategy: Where Would Your Organization Rank Itself?
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The study found that 35 percent of the surveyed nonprofits use digital technologies but don’t have a strategic approach. An additional 12 percent are in the thinking stages of a digital strategy, with three percent still struggling to access basic tools. These may not be exciting workplaces for younger people.
communication strategies
Philanthropic Oddities: Rogue Pittsburgh Fdn. Asks People What They Think
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A Pittsburgh newspaper rightly takes note of a big philanthropic player actually talking with and taking guidance from the community members it serves.
Nonprofit Management
Building the Bicycle While We Ride It: Five Reflections on Nonprofit Co-Leadership
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Co-leading a nonprofit takes patience and clarity, as these two accomplished young leaders can testify firsthand.
Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s Association: Cooperation, Competition, or Consolidation?
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Over the last decade, federations and similar networks of nonprofits have found themselves in battles as central offices have pushed to consolidate and local groups have defended their space. A nonprofit expert considers, in the wake of recent upheavals in the Alzheimer’s Association network, whether the work he did laying a framework for the chapter-to-central relationship actually “took.”
Nonprofit Management
Facing $10M Deficit, Met Parts Ways with 3 Highly Placed Employees
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is shedding some of its professional staff as it begins an effort to cut costs to address a looming deficit. Do the roles of the staff contain clues to its thoughts about what went wrong?