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Hub You - How a Nonprofit Name Change Generated Attention & Momentum: A Case Study in Branding
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You can bet that if the media get your organization's name wrong, time and again, that your target audiences do too. And that's a real barrier to building relationships and brand.
"In addition, audiences didn't know what 'legal defense and education fund' meant," continues McF
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As a matter of fact, the letter was so strong that I decided to follow up with Maureen McFadden, Legal Momentum's Vice President of Communications, to learn more about the process -- and ultimate impact -- of the name change.
CHALLENGE: No One Got the Name, or the Focus
Even with a 34-year record of positive action, NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund's growth was held back by two seemingly impenetrable barriers. To begin with, there was perpetual confusion in the media about what the Fund was, and its relationship with NOW. "No matter how successful we were in getting media coverage, nine out of ten times they got our name wrong," says McFadden. "As a result, we didn't have any clips."
You can bet that if the media get your organization's name wrong, time and again, that your target audiences do too. And that's a real barrier to building relationships and brand.
"In addition, audiences didn't know what 'legal defense and education fund' meant," continues McF
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As a matter of fact, the letter was so strong that I decided to follow up with Maureen McFadden, Legal Momentum's Vice President of Communications, to learn more about the process -- and ultimate impact -- of the name change.
CHALLENGE: No One Got the Name, or the Focus
Even with a 34-year record of positive action, NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund's growth was held back by two seemingly impenetrable barriers. To begin with, there was perpetual confusion in the media about what the Fund was, and its relationship with NOW. "No matter how successful we were in getting media coverage, nine out of ten times they got our name wrong," says McFadden. "As a result, we didn't have any clips."
You can bet that if the media get your organization's name wrong, time and again, that your target audiences do too. And that's a real barrier to building relationships and brand.
"In addition, audiences didn't know what 'legal defense and education fund' meant," continues McF
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CHALLENGE: No One Got the Name, or the Focus
Even with a 34-year record of positive action, NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund's growth was held back by two seemingly impenetrable barriers. To begin with, there was perpetual confusion in the media about what the Fund was, and its relationship with NOW. "No matter how successful we were in getting media coverage, nine out of ten times they got our name wrong," says McFadden. "As a result, we didn't have any clips."
You can bet that if the media get your organization's name wrong, time and again, that your target audiences do too. And that's a real barrier to building relationships and brand.
"In addition, audiences didn't know what 'legal defense and education fund' meant," continues McF
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You can bet that if the media get your organization's name wrong, time and again, that your target audiences do too. And that's a real barrier to building relationships and brand.
"In addition, audiences didn't know what 'legal defense and education fund' meant," continues McF
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You can bet that if the media get your organization's name wrong, time and again, that your target audiences do too. And that's a real barrier to building relationships and brand.
"In addition, audiences didn't know what 'legal defense and education fund' meant," continues McFadden. "They asked us for education grants or direct legal services. The only audiences who did know who we were (and what we did) were long-time feminists and those with whom we had long relationships on Capitol Hill."
Since the Fund was striving to extend its reach to women born after the civil rights era, and to ensure all audiences were aware of the full range of its programs – including new initiatives such as lobbying for universal access to child care – these problems had to be solved.
After much deliberation, NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund decided that a name change was the communications strategy most likely to boost its ongoing evolution and outreach to broader audiences. "We needed a name that said who we were and what we did, while enabling us to continue to grow," says McFadden.
STRATEGY: In-Depth Analysis of History, Vision and Audience Perspectives Generates Powerful New Name
Knowing that a name change is a major initiative, and one that can be very stressful (in terms of effort and emotions), the Fund decided to seek outside help. So McFadden and her colleagues applied for, and s
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