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DIY Communications: When is It Time to Pull Out the Toolbox?

Guest Post: Regan Gruber Moffitt After many months of talking about a major home remodel, my husband announced one April morning, “We’re starting today!” Those words still ring in my ears more than a...

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Listening for the Story

Guest Post:  Joel Johnson, GMMB Storytelling is a buzz word that gets thrown around a lot these days. In this hyper-connected culture, it’s no surprise that the art of storytelling is often looked to...

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Winning Words

Guest Post: Alfred Ironside, Doug Hattaway and Tess Hart At a time when 73 percent of Americans surveyed tell the Pew Research Center they trust government “only some of the time,” a narrative we...

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How Social Media Helped Abolish the Death Penalty

Guest Post: Aurora Matthews and Danielle Tarr After years of trying to repeal the death penalty in Maryland, a coalition of state and national advocacy groups came together last fall and decided it was...

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Philanthropy Fashion and Spotting Trends Here to Stay

Guest Post: Jen Bokoff, director, GrantCraft In 2013, asymmetric hems, neon colors, and bold stripes have been all the rage in fashion shows around the world. Last year, pajama-inspired pants and wedge...

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A Recipe for Films with Measurable Impact

Guest Post: Kristina Robbins and Marjan Safinia, Department of Expansion So often we talk to organizations that are frustrated about spending money on films that haven’t achieved the results they...

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Impact Litigation + Strong Media Narrative = Social Change

Guest Post: Adam Umhoefer and Felix Schein On November 4, 2008, the same day our nation elected its first African American president, the voters of California passed Proposition 8, an amendment to the...

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Getting the Communication Plan Right From Day One

Guest Post: Stacey Easterling In 2007, The Atlantic Philanthropies began funding a national pilot in which success depended on engaging, and helping shift society’s perceptions of, people over age 60....

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Talk is Tweet

Guest Post: The Social Media Collective The time has passed when organizations ask the question: “Is social media right for us?” Today, philanthropy is increasingly present in social media. With the...

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The New Rules of Engagement

Guest Post: Will Novy-Hildesley, Quicksilver Foundry Welcome to the Brave New World. The good news? Communications won. Ending decades of debate over who can create the most impact at scale, Programs...

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Get Your Game On: Communications and the Art of Scaling

Guest Post: Susan Promislo and Eric Antebi The year was 1995. Jill Vialet was sitting outside the principal’s office at Santa Fe Elementary School in Oakland, Calif. Vialet, then head of the local...

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Meet the Fall 2013 Conference Blog Team

The Communications Network and Philanthropy411 have recruited a stellar team of bloggers for the Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference. The group of bloggers will be posting from New...

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Twelve Tips to Successful Pitching

A special Philanthropy411blogging team  is currently covering the Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference conference in New Orleans.  This is a guest post by Cynthia Dodd Adcock, Vice...

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Are You a Resource or An Advocate?

A special Philanthropy411 blogging team is currently covering the Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference conference in New Orleans.  This is a guest post by William Albert, Chief Program...

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Three Takeways On Building Social Movements

A special Philanthropy411 blogging team  is currently covering the Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference conference in New Orleans.  This is a guest post by Kate Emanuel, senior vice...

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The World Has Gone Mobile, So Why Hasn’t Your Foundation?

A special Philanthropy411 blogging team  is currently covering the Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference conference in New Orleans. This is a guest post by  Krista Jahnke, Communications...

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The Spaces We Pine For Honest Perspectives

A special Philanthropy411 blogging team  is currently covering the Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference conference in New Orleans. This is a guest post by  Erin M. Kelly, MA, Social Media...

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Perspective From DownUnder

A special Philanthropy411 blogging team  is currently covering the Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference conference in New Orleans. This is a guest post by Avalee Weir, Communications...

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Are You Mobile Yet?

A special Philanthropy411 blogging team is currently covering the Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference conference in New Orleans. This is a guest post by Chris Wolz, President/CEO at...

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Five Ways to Hit your Social Media Stride

A special Philanthropy411 blogging team  is currently covering the Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference conference in New Orleans. This is a guest post by  Elizabeth R. Miller,...

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It’s the Story, Stupid!

A special Philanthropy411 blogging team  is currently covering the Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference conference in New Orleans. This is a guest post by Liz Wainger, President of The...

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Tips on Framing your Messages to Change the World

A special Philanthropy411 blogging team  is currently covering the Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference conference in New Orleans. This is a guest post by Norris West, Director of...

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The Luxury of Time

A special Philanthropy411 blogging team covered last week’s Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference in New Orleans. This is a guest post by Liz Banse, Vice President at Resource Media....

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Permission to Be Authentic

A special Philanthropy411 blogging team covered last week’s Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference in New Orleans.  This is a guest post by Betsey Russell, Owner Last Word, LLC.   Follow...

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Confronting the Coming World

A special Philanthropy411 blogging team covered last week’s Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference in New Orleans. This is a guest post by Dan Brady, Communications Manager at the Forum of...

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Ich Bin Ein Communicator?

A special Philanthropy411 blogging team covered last week’s Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference in New Orleans. This is a guest post by Bill Wright, Vice President, Outreach and Advocacy...

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Courts of Law and Public Opinion

Regular Communications Network Contributor Paul VanDeCarr, Managing Director and co-founder of Working Narratives, was one of the members of the Philanthropy411 blogging team that covered last week’s...

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You May Call Us Evangelists

A special Philanthropy411 blogging team covered last week’s Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference in New Orleans. This is a guest post by Jorge Cino, Creative Writer & Nonprofit...

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What’s Your Movement?

A special Philanthropy411 blogging team covered last week’s Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference in New Orleans. This is a guest post by  Akilah Williams, Communications Officer at Crown...

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Making the Invisible, Visible

A special Philanthropy411 blogging team covered last week’s Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference in New Orleans. This is a guest post by  Maryland M. Grier, Senior Communications Officer...

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Designing Transformative Communications Capacity Building Programs for...

Guest Post: Beth Kanter Our interactive session at the Fall 2013 Communications Network Conference in New Orleans was a blend of content delivery and peer learning – a conversation about the value,...

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ComNetwork Gumbo

A special Philanthropy411 blogging team covered last week’s Communications Network Fall 2013 Annual Conference in New Orleans.  This is a guest post by Chris Wolz, president/CEO, Forum One...

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Looking Ahead

At our Fall 2013 Annual Conference in New Orleans, Minna Jung, communications director for the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, was elected chair of the Communications Network.  Jung, who joined...

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What’s in Your Social Media Policy? (If You Have One)

Guest Post:  Erin M. Kelly, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Along with several colleagues, I helped lead a discussion about ”hitting your stride in social media“ at the Communications Network...

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ComNet Crosses the Ocean

For one grantmaker, last year’s ComNet conference yielded unexpected results long after she’d gone home By Australian standards, The Ian Potter Foundation is large, distributing over $20 million in...

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