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Joe Fuld

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Martín Diego Garcia

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Joe and Martín preview one of their favorite events of the year: BISC's Road Ahead Conference! The Road Ahead conference is the progressive community’s only conference solely dedicated to ballot measures. This year it is taking place virtually on April 1 & 2, and you can go to RoadAhead.Ballot.org for more information and register (for free!).

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Joe Fuld

Twitter: @joefuld

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Martín Diego Garcia

Twitter: @gmartindiego

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The full, raw interview with Courtney Snowden of Blueprint Strategies. Lobbying has long been perceived as a secretive and even unethical, and Courtney wants to change that. Tune in to hear what lobbyists really do to get issues moving through the policymaking process, and find out who Courtney thinks are the best lobbyists she's ever known.

Resources 

Lobby Visits for Nonprofits: Planning a Lobby Day

How Do I Kick Off My Legislative Advocacy Program?

I'm Just a Bill Song-Schoolhouse Rock

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Joe Fuld

Twitter: @joefuld

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Martín Diego Garcia

Twitter: @gmartindiego

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Advocacy work often means dealing with sensitive or personal issues for vulnerable communities on a daily basis. That’s why we need to be extra cautious that we’re doing advocacy right, and not inadvertently causing extra burdens or difficulties to arise for the very communities we’re fighting for. Tune in to learn how to know whether your advocacy is going in the right or wrong direction, and what you can do to recover if you’ve gone off the rails. Joe and Martín also dispel some myths about advocacy that might be pushing you in the wrong direction and they explain how planning and goal setting can keep you from going off track in the first place. Martín chats with Katie Belanger, an advocacy pro who will discuss the importance of recognizing your biases and how your advocacy should be upsetting people (the right way).

Resources 

Advocacy Strategy: Planning and Winning

Advocacy Plan: Where Do I Begin?

Calendly

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The Campaign Workshop: 

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Joe Fuld

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Martín Diego Garcia

Twitter: @gmartindiego

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Fundraising is the lifeblood of advocacy work. Without steady, diversified revenue streams, nonprofits would not be able to fight the good fight day in and day out. In this episode, Joe and Martín share important lessons they’ve learned from years of advocacy work and training that will help you improve your quarterly reports. Tune in to learn how to connect your ask to a potential donor’s daily life, what materials you must have on hand in case a donor asks for them, and how using the RAT method will change your fundraising for good. Martín chats with professional fundraiser Joe Sangirardi of the Human Rights Campaign, who will explain how he’s adapted to fundraising during COVID and how you should reframe your thinking about fundraising as a science and a profession.

Resources 

Advocacy Fundraising vs. Political Fundraising

7 Questions with Jason Mida about Nonprofit Fundraising

How Can I Build My List for Fundraising?

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Joe Fuld

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Martín Diego Garcia

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Your communications strategy needs to be well-thought out and effectively implemented. You need to decide what mix of earned and paid media you will use, and how you will harness your organization’s membership to act as amplifiers of your message. And of course, you will need to establish long-term engagement with your audience. Tune in to learn how to create an effective advocacy communications plan and hear Joe and Martín discuss advocacy communication best practices. This week’s guest is Andrew Yang’s 2020 travelling press secretary, Erick Sanchez. Erick is a master at advocacy communications, so come to hear his tips and stay to hear about his Dr. Anthony Fauci pillows and how he got Kenny Loggins to play a concert in his living room.

Resources 

7 Questions on Social Media Activism with Erick Sanchez

How to Bring Campaign Communications to Life

Nonprofit Content Marketing Guide

Erick’s Dr. Anthony Fauci Pillows

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Joe Fuld

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Martín Diego Garcia

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Just like in the game Risk, alliances are important in advocacy work too. Knowing who you can partner with and creating coalitions with your allies can help you expand your reach, draw from a larger pool of resources, and give weight to your demands. This week, Joe and Martín share their coalition building and coalition management best practices, as well as insights into how to use power mapping to achieve your coalition’s goals. This episode’s guest is Hannah Willard, an advocacy trainer and LGBTQ rights advocate who will explain how you can avoid internal conflict within your coalition and how each constituent organization can advance their own goals while still supporting the coalition.

Resources 

Freedom for All Americans

Coalition Mapping: Understanding Your Coalition Landscape

Your Guide to Coalition Building

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Joe Fuld

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Martín Diego Garcia

Twitter: @gmartindiego

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Your advocacy campaign may be using patch-through calls, letter writing, petition signing, or any number of other tactics. However, without targeting and metrics, how will you know if these tactics are working? Through targeting and metrics! Tune in to this episode to hear Joe and Martín break down how to determine who the key decision-makers are and what data you should collect. This week’s guest is Rose Espinola, a data expert who will explain the importance of one-on-ones, the three tactics you can use to build pressure on a target, and why advocacy targeting is so unique. 

Resources 

Power Mapping: Understanding Your Political Landscape

Micro Targeting: Advanced Targeting is Key to Winning

Know Your Advocacy Metrics

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Joe Fuld

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Martín Diego Garcia

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@gmartindiego

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Advocacy storytelling is both an art and a science. While there are millions of stories to be told, you need to choose the right stories for your goals and tell them effectively and compassionately. This week, Joe and Martín tackle the world of storytelling, breaking down what storytelling is, what it is not, who can tell stories, where you can find stories, and why storytelling is essential to your advocacy campaign. This episode’s guest is the Executive Director of the national immigration advocacy organization United We Dream (UWD), Greisa Martinez Rosas, who will share tips on how UWD has developed one of the best storytelling operation in the advocacy space.

Resources 

United We Dream

The Storytelling Animal

Digital Storytelling for Your Association

Taking a Long-Term Approach to Nonprofit Storytelling

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Joe Fuld

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Martín Diego Garcia

Twitter: @gmartindiego

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Messaging for advocacy is a central skill you must master to win your advocacy campaign. Convincing your audience to be on your side is not an easy task, and you need to draft messages that stay true to your organization’s goals but do not sound just like your mission statement. In this episode, Joe and Martín will teach you how to develop your messaging and explain what you need to keep in mind when it comes to organizational flexibility and incremental success in advocacy messaging. Martín chats with Joe’s former boss, Rich Neimand, a master of messaging whose work was even included in one of President Barack Obama’s inaugural addresses.

Resources 

Advocacy Message Consistency

Advocacy Message: Know Your Advocacy Campaign Goals

Tully Message Box

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Joe Fuld

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Martín Diego Garcia

Twitter: @gmartindiego

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Research and polling are essential parts of advocacy campaigns. Understanding the policy arena and testing your messaging will prevent your organization from wasting limited resources and help keep you on track to win. Tune in to learn about some different research methods, how to make the most out of a limited research budget, and what to look for when hiring a research consultant or pollster. This episode’s guest is Anna Greenberg, PhD, a pollster and former professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. Dr. Greenberg discusses why you must be upfront about your budget with your research consultant and what you need to have in mind when putting together a research plan.

Resources

Advocacy Research—Know Your Options

Polling, Research and Focus Groups for Advocacy Campaigns

Using Google Tools for Advocacy and Political Research

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Joe Fuld

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Martín Diego Garcia

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Setting goals may seem like an easy task, but it’s easy to make them too broad, too specific, or too ambitious. Tune in to this first full episode of S2 to learn how your organization should be thinking about goals. Joe and Martín will explain primary vs. secondary goals and the importance of having both long-term and short-term goals. Martín chats with former Chief Advocacy Officer of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Molly Daniels to better understand how goals should fit into your organization’s planning and partnerships. Molly shares with us how she leveraged one of the largest advocacy networks in the country and talks about her brief stint in the rock and roll business.

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The Campaign Workshop: 

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Joe Fuld

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Martín Diego Garcia

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Instagram: @gmartindiego

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In this Season 2 trailer, Joe and Martín are back and ready to dive deep into the world of advocacy campaigns. They discuss what advocacy means to them, how they got their starts in advocacy, and how you can get started in advocacy regardless of your experience level. All you need is a cause and willingness to fight for what you believe in. Sign up for the email list below so you can be the first to know when Season 2 is out!

Resources 

Season 2 Email Priority Notification List

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Joe Fuld

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Martín Diego Garcia

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In this episode we talk to Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Neon One.  We talk about his path to becoming a tech guru, impact metrics, nonprofit tech & culture, rights of NPs to advocate, and healthy relationships with NPs and their members.

We interview Dan Jacobson, State Director for Environment California.  Dan & Enviro CA were one of the people and groups leading the effort to pass the 100% renewable energy law in CA this year.  We talk first about the legislation that led up to this, then we get into the people, strategies, tactics and tips about how they did what they did.