Is your non-profit’s advocacy message contributing to “compassion fatigue”?  Do you zoom in on individuals, leaving systemic change out of the frame?  Is your messaging saying, “enough about you; let’s talk about me”?  Does your content take your potential stakeholders’ awareness too much for granted?  Some great advice here on how re-framing social issues can take place in social media, as well as other forms of advocacy...

The IPhone turned latent demand into a market—we must do the same: http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=86ea69664802a0541ae4385f8&id=aa5c978ec4&e=c43990c969

By getting their stakeholders out to vote; learn how from Nonprofit Vote: https://t.e2ma.net/message/1m2vm/x34lkb

Calnonprofits’ one-pager on Los Angeles-based non-profits: http://www.calnonprofits.org/images/downloads/Los%20Angeles%20Profile_Causes%20Count.pdf

A film about sexual violence on campus shows how foundations are eager to support media that promote social change: http://philanthropy.com/article/Film-on-Campus-Rape-Could-Take/151617/?cid=pt&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=en

FrameWorks focuses on how advocacy communications can be improved through the use of Strategic Frame Analysis: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/policysocial-context/25562-disrupting-the-dominant-frame-an-interview-with-susan-nall-bales-of-the-frameworks-institute-2015-macei-award-winner.html

The decline in advertising revenue has brought an even sharper decline in newspaper valuations, sparking interest in new ownership models—my Non-Profit Quarterly newswire today: https://nonprofitquarterly.org/management/25564-san-diego-s-daily-newspaper-may-go-nonprofit.html

A California case study and a tutorial on how to do it: http://bolderadvocacy.org/blog/lessons-from-a-year-of-budget-advocacy http://bolderadvocacy.org/resource/nonprofits-can-influence-the-budget-process

The President wants to end the tax deduction wealthy donors make to get primo seats at college sporting events: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-02/college-sports-ticket-tax-break-would-vanish-under-obama-budget

A big non-profit takes over a bunch of notorious for-profit college campuses and forgives student debt: http://philanthropy.com/blogs/philanthropytoday/nonprofit-ecmc-to-forgive-student-debt-in-corinthian-deal/96219?cid=pt&utm_source=pt&utm_medium=en

How will the President’s budget impact America’s non-profits in the unlikely event it even passes through Congress?...

How will the new OMB grant guidelines impact American non-profits getting Federal funds and contracts? http://www.streamlinksoftware.com/blog/bid/187112/How-OMB-Uniform-Grant-Guidance-is-Changing-Public-Sector-and-Nonprofit-Partnerships-Forever