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Creating significant social change is a long game and social impact leaders need to overcome the barriers to brand building and marketing to scale their impact over time.

Your logo’s not as important as you think. Branding is about far more than just slick, eye-catching aesthetics. It also involves powerful strategic thinking and actions.

How can you build momentum that helps your social impact organization succeed? Adopt the flywheel model from the business world.

Do you operate from a hat-in-hand scarcity mindset or a powerful value-based position? Let’s look into the conscious or unconscious ways you may be giving away your power to fundraise, propel your mission, and make the change you want to create.

Teamwork and values posters in your office don’t work. How do you take your organization’s values and have them influence your team’s behavior in order to advance their impact?

Want to grow your impact? Scale your marketing team.

Building an effective and sustainable social impact marketing team is as important as your program work. Discover the top considerations when building out your team — whether it’s in-house or a partner.

How embodying your brand can develop deeper authentic relationships with your community of supporters.

There’s one thing the most successful social impact organizations get right, every time. They truly define and own a niche. Owning a niche as a social impact brand is probably one of the most important — but least understood — superpowers to further your mission. In this article, we outline 5 simple but powerful questions that social impact leaders can ask to test your social impact niche.

A rebrand can be a powerful way to further your mission, garner more engagement and support, re-energize your team, and transform your organization. Make sure you’re doing it at the right time.

We challenge you to step up in a new way.

Let’s examine how you can create conditions required to fundamentally change your ability to generate revenue for your social impact mission. 

There are good reasons you’re feeling the pinch of declining revenue and things you can do about it - today.

Your social impact organization and the people who work on the world’s most difficult, intractable problems deserve to be free of the starvation mindset.

Dig into our toolkit for building stronger communities that support your mission to create transformational change.

The 5 key pillars for building healthy communities are a great place to start when you’re planning a new community or looking to improve your existing one.

As a guest on the Social Impact Level Up podcast, Eric underscores the importance of elevating social enterprise's marketing game and effectively communicating the impact of your company to the world.

Is community in decline, or is the way we’re participating in it changing? As a social impact brand, you need community support to power your work. You can’t drive your mission and reach your true impact potential alone. But, building authentic, vibrant communities seems harder than ever before.

Combine the distribution-first mindset with our distribution-first framework to create a workflow that helps you work smarter, not harder.

What if we told you that there is a way to work smarter, not harder, with your content strategy, and that this approach can help you get the absolute most out of each piece of content and idea that you come up with?

Attract the right kind of attention by focusing on content framing and packaging and getting truly creative with your content. 

Check out 10 common mistakes social impact organizations make that keep their content from getting traction. 

Is your website is designed and built in the right way, with the right elements in place, and supported by the right activation strategy?