Communications

Communications and Marketing

Basic Guide to Nonprofit Program Design and Marketing
Guides the reader to design a program and services that are highly integrated with the organization’s mission, strategic planning, goals and needs of clients.

The Spin Project
Information on accessible and affordable strategic communications consulting, training, coaching, networking opportunities and concrete tools, especially for social justice nonprofits.

The Nonprofit Social Media Policy Workbook
Written using the research from the Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide, this workbook is designed to help you, as an organization, ask the important questions about social media, and take the next steps to growing a social culture.

Advocacy and Public Policy

Center for Lobbying in the Public Interest
Information includes a free, downloadable, handbook on how nonprofits can make the most of the 1976 nonprofit lobbying law and includes chapters on the law itself, what 501(c) 3s can and can’t do, how to effectively communicate with legislators, developing grassroots action, maximizing impact with coalitions, media relations, and much more.

Alliance for Justice – Nonprofits
Research, publications, public policy on advocacy, and details on the laws regarding advocacy.

OMB Watch
A nonprofit research and advocacy organization dedicated to promoting and protecting nonprofit advocacy.

NPAction
An online resource hosted by OBM Watch to support capacity building for nonprofit advocacy.