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Here we have compiled a list of organizations that have directed their efforts toward assisting non-profit groups in furthering their cause through effective communication with the public through the media.
A big "Thank You" goes out to Carole Oshinky of the National Center for Children in Poverty for her contribution to this information.
Provides information on funding and designing effective public interest communications campaigns, especially through the media in a digital age. Operates multiple programs and Web sites around specific communications issues: Capacity Building, Communications Policy & Practice, Connect for Kids, Digital Divide Network, OneWorld: US, Sound Partners for Community Health, and other programs. www.benton.org
Communications Consortium Media Center (CCMC)
Founded by experienced nonprofit communications and media experts to help nonprofit organizations use media and new telecommunications technologies for public education and policy change. Operates the Early Care and Education Collaborative, which implements strategic public education strategies in six states aimed at creating public will to expand the supply and quality of early care and education resources and share lessons with the broader child care community. www.ccmc.org A strategic communications firm that works to help clients achieve a vast array of communications goals, including message development, media outreach, issue advertising, and design and graphics. www.fenton.com Advances the nonprofit sector's communications capacity by identifying, translating, and modeling relevant scholarly research for framing the public discourse about social problems. www.frameworksinstitute.org Resources and articles on effective marketing, tools and tactics, newsletters, and boosting publicity and credibility by a business consulting firm that can be applied to social marketing and strategic communications. www.marketerinabox.comSouthern Institute on Children and Families
Regional organization that provides guidance on developing effective social marketing messages. www.kidsouth.orgThe SPIN Project (Strategic Press Information Network)
Provides media technical assistance to nonprofit public-interest organizations that want to influence debate, shape public opinion, and garner positive media attention. www.spinproject.orgThe Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
Polls, public opinion research, national surveys on public attitudes toward press,politics, public policy issues; funded by Pew Charitable Trusts. Pew ... people-press.org/| The American Poverty Journalism Center is a student-staffed website dedicated to bringing together journalists and organizations concerned with poverty and social justice as well as compiling online resources to aid in the expression and discussion of human capability issues.. |
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