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Advocacy
Advocating an End to the Death Penalty
The Atlantic Philanthropies and its network of partners are using advocacy and communications to end capital punishment in the United States once and for all.
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Advocacy
Funding Research for Advocacy
How a commitment to effective messaging research helped reframe the debate around freedom to marry and win greater support.
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Environment
Catching the Wave
How a powerful communications strategy helped the Surfrider Foundation and a coalition of other organizations mobilize a local grassroots effort and save a rare natural resource.
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Collaboration
A Chorus for Wildlife
How World Wildlife Fund helped organize a global clarion call to stop wildlife crime.
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Advocacy
The Power of Simple
How the Natural Resources Defense Council effectively unearthed and reframed compelling research to raise public awareness and effect policy change around food waste.
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Advocacy
A Map to Effective Communications
How the California Heath Care Foundation sparked statewide change by “showing” rather than “telling” its data, making use of existing partnerships, and funding what works.
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Advocacy
Dismantling “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
How the Palm Center used long-term, strategic communications to break down a widely held belief and overturn a discriminatory Pentagon policy.
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Foundations
Communicating Data to Drive Change
How the Annie E. Casey Foundation has leveraged the power of information and communication to drive public investment in children and their families.
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Organizational Development
The Power of Convening for Social Impact
Bringing people together in an environment that encourages and facilitates idea exchange is one of the most powerful communications strategies for driving change.
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Organizational Development
The Case for Communications
How smart, strategic communications can help nonprofits and foundations win.
Organizational Development
The Case for Communications
In this multi-part series, presented in partnership with The Communications Network, leaders from an array of foundations and nonprofits will share case studies showcasing strategic communications efforts that delivered impact, drove change, and advanced their missions.
Each article will focus on a particular idea or issue the organization wished to move forward, and outline how it used strategic communications to create a change in attitudes, awareness, or policy. The articles will also share important lessons—such as what worked (or didn’t), and why.
The series will focus on the impact of communications, and provide compelling examples and evidence of smart, effective communications efforts for leaders in the communications field and across the social sector. #case4comm