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Foundations
Express Yourself
The independence of foundations gives them the unique ability to communicate uncomfortable truths to entrenched power. When it comes to strategic communications, however, there are three things of which every foundation could do more.
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Advocacy
Communicating Creatively
How to give voice to public support—seven lessons from ONE Campaign.
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Nonprofit Management
Greater Influence, More Impact
Five steps to building and leveraging the engine that fuels national conversation: influence.
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Nonprofit Management
Creating a Communications Culture
Three guiding principles for foundations contemplating a more-ambitious and impactful communications strategy.
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Nonprofit Management
Big Communications for Small Nonprofits
Three steps to driving large-scale change through strategic communications.
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Nonprofits
Making Ideas Catch On
A conversation with communications expert Jonah Berger on how to build support for ideas and gain momentum on social change.
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Global Issues
The Chief Engine of Change: Conversation
A look at how Freedom to Marry used communications to make the “impossible” ... “inevitable”
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Nonprofits
The New Communications Imperative
Communications is not an opportunity for nonprofits; it’s a necessity.
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Civil Society
Meeting People Where They Are
A look at how the Center for American Progress is using innovative communications strategies to reach the broadest possible audience.
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Global Issues
Bold but Flexible: How to Effectively Share Your Vision
Creating change requires that organizations effectively communicate their vision in a way that draws in both existing allies and "unusual suspects."
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Nonprofits
Making Ideas Move
Investing in communication—whether you’re selling soda or social change—yields results.
Communication
Making Ideas Move
In this multipart series, presented in partnership with the Communications Network, a diverse group of leaders from foundations, nonprofits, and research institutions will share how effective communication has helped them drive social change. Articles will address the purpose and impact of strategic communications, what it takes to improve communications, how to foster a culture of communications, the power of a nonprofit brand, and other tools and approaches organizations are using to maximize communications and make their ideas move. #moveideas