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Exciting Updates from Georgetown University’s Center for Social Impact Communication

CSIC Students

Change is in the air!
We are proud to announce that Georgetown University’s Center for Social Impact Communication (CSIC) officially relaunches today with exciting evolutions and a new website.
Our core as a research and action center at the University’s School of Continuing Studies remains, but the focus and execution of how we bring to life a philosophy of social impact is growing.
Our evolved mission is to increase social impact through the power of marketers, communicators, fundraisers […]

The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies For Impact Without Burnout

The Happy Healthy Nonprofit Event

by Upma Kapoor
On Friday, February 10, co-authors Aliza Sherman and Beth Kanter joined Georgetown University’s Center for Social Impact Communication for a discussion on their new book, The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact Without Burnout. The conversation, moderated by Managing Director John Trybus, featured candid, eye-opening insight on the burnout fueled by nonprofit culture, and offered long-term strategies on how to flip the switch from burnout to healthier, more sustainable structures.
Kanter declared the current state […]

Practitioner Profile: Aline Newman, Campaign Strategist at AARP Foundation

Aline Newman

Aline Newman is a Campaign Strategist at the AARP Foundation, a nonprofit whose mission is to create “a country free of poverty where no older person feels vulnerable.” She was interviewed by Georgetown University Journalism student, Isabella Basco, for our online magazine, The Blur.
Isabella Basco: Please describe your career path and current position.
Aline Newman: My career path began after graduating from St. Louis University, where I graduated with a degree in Marketing and Spanish. I’ve […]

The Secret Formula to Online Presence Success for Non-Profit Organizations

Website Tips

by Gloria Kopp
The not so secret secret to success online is the same as the not so secret secret to success offline – hard work! If you are willing to put the time and effort into your online marketing, your organization will flourish there.

Have an Up to Date Website

All business wanting to grow their online presence should have a website. But just having a website isn’t enough. Even the most basic websites need constantly checking […]

Agricultural Scientists use Social Media to Amplify their Voices for Public Health

Agricultural Scientists

by Carol Lynn Curchoe
“Fed” up with the aggressive and damaging marketing tactics of the $45 billion dollar per year organic industry, academic scientists and teachers are biting back, despite being ill-equipped for the personal and professional risks of taking on a well-funded industry.
For three decades the organic industry and anti-biotechnology extremists have worked to deploy and further a very poignant and specific narrative: that opposition to genetically engineered crops (“GMOs”) is based on corporate greed […]