22 September 2025
Join us for our upcoming series of FREE Advocacy Workshops, designed to help you build your advocacy skills and strengthen your organization at the same time. These workshops are offered virtually and free of charge, but registration is required. More information about each workshop is below.
Advocacy Communications for Maximum Donor Impact
November 5
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
This hands-on session designed to help you build a 12-month communications calendar that inspires donor engagement—and increases giving—through advocacy. You’ll learn how to balance education, calls to action, and stewardship to deepen donor relationships and drive both mission impact and financial support.
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Understanding Your Advocacy Capital
November 19
1:00 PM – 2:15 PM
Everything an organization does has a cost. In advocacy, those costs can range from financial to reputational to political. How much capital are you willing to spend on advocacy? This training helps facilitate conversations around these questions and adds to the clarity organizations need in this day and age where there’s so much to take action on.
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Workshop Facilitators
Meredith McNeely, Pecan Public Relations
Meredith is passionate about helping nonprofits connect authentically and effectively with the communities they serve. After graduating College of Charleston with a BA in Arts Management, she went on to build a robust marketing and fundraising department at Gravatt Camp and Conference Center in Aiken, before heading to the Upstate to serve as Director of Major and Corporate Giving at the SC Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. She then relocated back to the Midlands, where she was born and raised, and continues to work in nonprofit and political fundraising.
With over a decade of experience in fundraising, marketing, board relations, and event management, Meredith is a valuable resource for advancing clients’ community impact goals.
GP McLeer, Pecan Public Relations
GP has spent over 15 years in nonprofit management and government affairs, working in various mission areas including the creative sector, transportation, and association management.
Elected in 2019, GP also serves as Mayor of Fountain Inn, SC. Appointed by Gov. Henry McMaster, GP sits on South Carolina’s State Workforce Development Board and also was elected President of the Association of SC Mayors. Additionally he serves on the boards of Keep Laurens County Beautiful and as Vice Chair of the Greenville-Pickens Area Transportation Study’s (GPATS).
With a passion for process and policy, GP gets excited about helping clients learn how to strengthen their organization’s capacity for advocacy, communication, and governance.
