1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Nonprofit Communication

Edited By Gisela Gonçalves, Evandro Oliveira Copyright 2023
374 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

374 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

374 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This handbook brings together multidisciplinary and internationally diverse contributors to provide an overview of theory, research, and practice in the nonprofit and nongovernmental organization (NGO) communication field. It is structured in four main parts: the first introduces metatheoretical and multidisciplinary approaches to the nonprofit sector; the second offers distinctive structural... Read more

Introducing nonprofit communication and mapping the research field

Gisela Gonçalves and Evandro Oliveira

Part I Democracy and civil society

1.1 Histories of the nonprofit and philanthropic sector

Thomas Davies

1.2 Communication for development and social change

Jan Servaes

1.3 NGO-ization of civil society

Sabine Lang

1.4 NGO-ization of solidarity in the digital age

Víctor Manuel Marí Sáez

1.5 Civic relations: Socio-communicative collective action

Evandro Oliveira

1.6 Public interest communication: a pragmatic approach

Jane Johnston

1.7 Humanitarian communication

Valérie Gorin

Part II Communication, organizations and publics

2.1 A constitutive approach to nonprofit communication

Matthew Koschmann and Matthew Isbell

2.2 Organizational listening and the nonprofit sector

Jim Macnamara

2.3 Integrated marketing communication management for nonprofit organizations

Manfred Bruhn and Anja Zimmermann

2.4 Communication monitoring and evaluation in the nonprofit sector

Glenn O’Neil

2.5 Fundraising and relationship cultivation

Richard D. Waters

2.6 Granting organizations

Giselle A. Auger

2.7 Communicating organizational change to nonprofit stakeholders

Laurie Lewis

2.8 Nonprofit and government relations

Bruno Ferreira Costa and Hugo Ferrinho Lopes

2.9 Companies and human right activists’ engagement

Naíde Müller

Part III Strategic communication, strategies and discourses

3.1 A conceptual approach for strategic communication: The ITNC

Evandro Oliveira

3.2 Internal branding in the nonprofit sector

Gordon Liu

3.3 Narratives and emotion in social entrepreneurship communication

Philip T. Roundy

3.4 Storytelling and memes: affordable and effective new media trends for small civil society organizations

Ioli Campos

3.5 Lobbying and the nonprofit sector

Ana Almansa-Martínez and Antonio Castillo-Esparcia

3.6 Open justice and court communication

Jane Johnston

3.7 Semiotic analysis of environmental communication campaigns

Andrea Catellani

3.8 Eco-art as discourse driver

Franzisca Weder and Denise Voci

3.9 Positive communication and public relations in the nonprofit sector

José Antonio Muñiz-Velázquez and Alejandro José Tapia Frade

Part IV Nonprofit communication, campaigns and case studies

4.1 Balancing collective action and connective action in new food cooperatives: Fertile ground for transformative change?

Korien van Vuuren-Verkerk, Noelle Aarts and Jan Van der Stoep

4.2 Local NGO e-communication on environmental issues

Valentina Burkšienė and Jaroslav Dvorak

4.3 The grassroots women water collective in India

Ram Awtar Yadav and Kanchan K. Malik

4.4 The role of communication within a domestic violence context during a lockdown

Sónia de Sá

4.5 Fundraising strategies during pandemic challenges

Laura Visan

4.6 Communication and activist literacy for social change in feminist movements

Alessandra Farné, Carla Cerqueira and Eloísa Nos-Aldás

4.7 Value-informed communication in nonprofit campaigns

Birgit Breninger and Thomas Kaltenbacher

4.8 Identifying and classifying stakeholders in Spanish nonprofit organizations

María Pallarés-Renau, Lorena López-Font and Susana Miquel-Segarra

4.9 Activism and social media: case studies from Greece’s economic crisis

Michael Nevradakis

Biography

Gisela Gonçalves is a professor and director of the Masters in Strategic Communication program at the University of Beira Interior and associated researcher at LabCom, Portugal.

Evandro Oliveira is a Serra Hunter professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain and researcher at LabCom, Portugal.

"The Routledge Handbook of Nonprofit Communication is an important addition to the literature. The book examines nonprofit communication from various perspectives – critical, structural, and strategic – and it also provides the reader with reading focused on practical application. It will be an excellent addition to any personal or institutional library."

Brigitta R. Brunner, Auburn University, USA