resources

Some resources, connections and good common sense for non-profits.

How to Implement a Social Marketing Effort

Why Bad Ads Happen to Good Causes (and how to ensure they won't happen to yours) (PDF)
Andy Goodman

Free Range Thinking

Tony Procsio
In Other Words: A Plea for Plain Speaking in Foundations (PDF)
Bad Words for Good - how foundations garble their message and lose their audience (PDF)
When Words Fail: How the Public Interest Becomes Neither Public Nor Interesting (PDF)

W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Communication Toolkit

Communications for Social Change Consortium

Communications for Social Change: An integrated model for measuring the process and its outcomes (PDF)
Figueroa, M.E., Kincaid, D.L., Rani, M., Lewis, G. Rockefeller Foundation and JHUCCP

Making Waves: Stories of Participatory Communication for Social Change (PDF)
Alfonso Gumucio Dagron

D.K. Holland's Brand Blog

The Communication Initiative International Communication and Sustainable Development

Johns Hopkins University Center for Communication Program: Publications

Proving Your Worth: 10 Way to Measure the Impact of of Your Communications (PDF)

This Just In: 10 Lessons from Two Decades of Public Interest Communications (PDF)

Smart Chart 3.0: An Interactive Tool to Help Nonprofits Make Smart Communications Choices

Discovering the Activation Point:
A collection of best practices that can help social change organizations plan to persuade.

American Opportunity: A Communications Toolkit.
A Toolkit intended to help leaders and organizers working on a wide range of social justice issues begin to leverage the core American value of “Opportunity for All” in their communications work.

Communications Consortium Media Center

Netcentric Campaigns Training Center

Berkeley Media Studies Group

Designers without Borders

www.idealist.org