Content tagged with “Advocacy Strategies”
Hey There, Superman. Papers, Please. Art is often used as a means to advocate on behalf of vulnerable populations. Take, for example, the Firelight Foundation’s Cradle Project which underscores the...
Tags: Poverty, Advocacy Strategies Words in Reality & Reality in Words Politicians use words in an effort to change reality; but reality and history also change words. That’s Mark Forsyth’s argument in his pithy TED talk. We often...
Tags: Evaluation Theory and Methods, Advocacy Strategies Teddy Bears, Dictators, and the Power of Ridicule Recently, the Swedish advertising agency Studio Total pulled a peculiar stunt: they flew a small plane into Belarus (Europe’s last dictatorship) and...
Tags: Evaluation Theory and Practice, Advocacy Strategies Arresting Images Ken Mueller’s profile of Soles4Souls for the Inspiring Generosity blog has one really cool takeaway: pictures can play a huge strategic role in a non-profit’s social media presence....
Tags: global hunger, Advocacy Strategies, International Advocacy Pay it Forward At the request of one of our clients, we attended The Economist’s World Oceans Summit in Singapore a few months ago. This week, we received a follow-up note asking Summit attendees for...
Tags: Evaluation Theory and Methods, Advocacy Strategies If It Looks Like A Duck, Swims Like a Duck, and Quacks Like a Duck… Is it a duck? Well, not necessarily. That’s what we tell clients trying to understand how events or trips they’ve hosted...
Tags: Evaluation Theory and Methods, Advocacy and Social Media, Advocacy Strategies Telling your Story in Style We recently came across a very cool tool: Sparkwise. This website helps non-profits select the kinds of online data they want tracked and puts it all together in a user-...
Tags: Advocacy and Social Media, Advocacy Strategies, Data Analytics On Salience In a provocative op-ed for Al Jazeera, political scientist Tarak Barkawi explains how “9/11 stole my whiteness.” The politics of race in a post-9/11 world is, let’s just say, tricky—and...
Tags: global health, Reproductive Health, Evaluation Theory and Practice, Advocacy Strategies How Much For That “Like”? Three weeks ago, we wrote about the challenges Facebook faces in turning a profit from its massive reservoir of user data. Since its IPO went bust, Knowledge@Wharton asks:...
Tags: Gender, Advocacy and Social Media, Advocacy Strategies Digital Advocacy Remember Komen’s defunding of Planned Parenthood? (Yup, it’s been a few months—ages in our speedy news cycle.) Well, this week The Chronicle of Philanthropy did a piece on Planned...
Tags: Reproductive Health, public health, Advocacy and Social Media, Advocacy Strategies 
