Resources

Companies

The Speakers House is a full-service speakers bureau that provides the assistance necessary to develop and design your metting message.

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Newsletters and Mailing Lists

Ezine-tips.com. Publishes a daily "Email List-Owner Tips, Tricks, Suggestions, Secrets, or Resources That You Can Use To Build, Grow, Maintain Your List." It's a great list (to join, send an e-mail to: join-list-tips@sparklist.com).

Communications Network's Network Notes. The Communications Network is a non-profit membership organization that promotes strategic communications as an integral part of effective philanthropy.

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Publications

SPIN Works! is an activist-friendly media guidebook produced by the SPIN Project. The guidebook is full of tips, tactics and strategies designed to give grassroots organizers and people interested in positive social change basic and advanced skills for shaping public opinion on their issues through the press.

"Values and Voice: Advancing Philanthropy through Strategic Communications" is a joint publication of the Communications Network and the Benton Foundation. First, Susan Bales of the Benton Foundation articulates five basic principles of strategic communications. Then, freelance writer Peg Odell showcases six foundation (the Minneapolis Foundation, the California Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Heinz Endowments, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the Rhode Island Foundation) that illustrate the impact of strategic communications on advancing grantmaking and public policy goals.

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Web Sites

Fenton Communications offers a resource page with downloadable publications and accompanying resource pages that offer a backstage look at what they do and at how to do it.

The SPIN Project (Strategic Press Information Network) provides media technical assistance to nonprofit public-interest organizations across the nation who want to influence debate, shape public opinion and garner positive media attention. The website contains the SPIN Tool Kit is a collection of tutorials on effective media strategies and tactics to support social change work.

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Inclusion of a resource in this Toolkit does not imply an endorsement by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.