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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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DIY PR
How one organization took advantage of a major transition to move away from third-party vendors and build an in-house communications team.
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Communicating Creatively
How to give voice to public support—seven lessons from ONE Campaign.
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Greater Influence, More Impact
Five steps to building and leveraging the engine that fuels national conversation: influence.
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Creating a Communications Culture
Three guiding principles for foundations contemplating a more-ambitious and impactful communications strategy.
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Big Communications for Small Nonprofits
Three steps to driving large-scale change through strategic communications.
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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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The Chief Engine of Change: Conversation
A look at how Freedom to Marry used communications to make the “impossible” ... “inevitable”
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The New Communications Imperative
Communications is not an opportunity for nonprofits; it’s a necessity.
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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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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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Making Ideas Move
Investing in communication—whether you’re selling soda or social change—yields results.
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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
