We’ve talked about the importance of storytelling on Frogloop before. Sarah Massey reminded us earlier this summer that we can all be our own reporter and we included effective story telling as of our favorite Five Tips to Enaging New Online Activists. Today I want to highlight some recent nonprofit campaigns telling great stories with the end-goal of building a movement.Put Video in your St...

(Kathryn Pyle is a frequent contributor to PhilanTopic. In her last post, she wrote about civil rights documentaries.) "Muslim Americans feel so muted today, drowned out by the hysteria in the mainstream media," lamented Moein Khawaja, director of the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), at a special iftar, or meal breaking the Ramadan fast, last wee...

That's the conclusion of researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civil Society Studies, who found, based on data from twenty-one states representing every region of the country, that nonprofit employment grew by an average of 2.5 percent per year between the second quarter of 2007 and the second quarter of 2009, compared to an average decline of 3.3 percent for for-...

Are you stuck in a fundraising rut and looking to try some creative fundraising tactics to engage your supporters? Check out Network for Good’s “How to Raise A lot More Money Now” which lists 50 fundraising strategies by some of the best fundraising experts including Jocelyn Harmon of Care2, Mark Rovner of Sea Change Strategies and Sarah Durham of Big Duck. Here’s the...

Our weekly roundup of new and noteworthy posts from and about the nonprofit sector.... Communications On her Getting Attention blog, Nancy Schwartz counsels nonprofits who want to increase their engagement with supporters to give supporters a "chance to go beyond -- whether behind the scenes, after the show, or standing in the shoes of." "Many...nonprofits describe themselves in dull, bloodles...

(Reilly Kiernan recently started a year-long Project55 Fellowship at the Foundation Center. In her first post, she discussed her goals for a series of posts she plans to write over the coming months.) Before I start, I want to acknowledge the fact I'm writing this for a blog. I say that because it seems like everyone in the nonprofit sector is talking about social media. That's been one ...