NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The outbreak at Bread Loaf came to light only when several participants who contracted COVID spoke out about the conference’s mishandling of the spread. Eichorn wrote about the lack of transparency regarding the outbreak, that guests to Bread Loaf “kept showing up, not knowing what they were walking into.”

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Ann Green

MARCH 23, 2022

Writing directly to your readers, using you much more than we, helps establish important connections. No one wants to hear you brag about yourself. Fundraising Should be About Building Relationships, Not Making a Transaction. Plus, many of your donors are passionate about your cause. Keep that beautiful friendship going!

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Now is your chance to share it with us and maybe get it on the schedule for next year. Just fill out the quick form below and let us know. The post What Do You Want Us to Write About in 2022? Can’t see the form?

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Jeff Brooks

APRIL 12, 2023

Then everybody would know about your organization. Only some people care about your cause. The ad world talks about "impressions." Maybe you should have bought an ad during the Super Bowl. Not a good idea. Even if you could somehow afford it. Everybody" doesn't care. Everybody" won't respond, ever. Even fewer will ever donate.

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NextAfter

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Questions from NextAfter Institute Members In this ask me anything post, I’ll answer a few questions submitted by members of the NextAfter Institute about year-end fundraising. Table Of Contents Question #1 – How should I use a video in my year-end fundraising? First off…here’s what we’ve learned about videos in fundraising.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

This series also lets readers know they aren’t alone and gives us insight into the needs of our community. People share things like: What project management tools do you use to stay on schedule? The post Tell Us about the Day-to-Day Work that Keeps Your Organization Going appeared first on Nonprofit Marketing Guide.

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

MAY 11, 2023

By Yelena V Litvinov and Tatyana Margolin Chronicle illustration; photos by Thom Bridge, Independent Record; Cheney Orr, Reuters, Redux; Getty Tennessee lawmakers Justin Jones (front) and Justin Pearson (left) were expelled from the state legislature after standing with protesters advocating for gun control.

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Elevation

JULY 24, 2019

When it comes to writing an About Us page for your nonprofit, there are no steadfast rules. The About Us page is essential for the one thing that nonprofits need most: building trust. About Us. But where do you even start? They need time to understand you, your mission, and your purpose. Their first stop?

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NonProfit PRO

JULY 6, 2022

In this episode, Laura MacDonald, chair of the Giving USA Foundation, and Una Osili, philanthropy expert and researcher at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, provide an in-depth look at the report’s key takeaways, including what 2021’s giving source and sector breakdowns mean.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Tell us all about the day-to-day work that keeps your organization going. We created it as a fun way to help us better understand our community’s needs and to also let other nonprofit communicators know they aren’t alone in the crazy, chaotic world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. Are you chugging coffee all day?

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MAY 14, 2015

When it comes to building relationships and trust with prospective donors and volunteers, service users or program participants and other vital audiences, the smallest details can make a huge impact, especially when they’re about your organization’s people. Because who ever returns to an About Us section of a site for a second look?

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 1, 2022

In this timely session, Steven Shattuck from Bloomerang will break down all of the leading research studies into 2020-21 fundraising and donor behavior, as well as Bloomerang user data, campaigns, and case studies, in order to reveal the key elements that your nonprofit should be focusing on now to achieve fundraising success in 2022 and beyond.

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NonProfit PRO

APRIL 1, 2022

In this timely session, Steven Shattuck from Bloomerang will break down all of the leading research studies into 2020-21 fundraising and donor behavior, as well as Bloomerang user data, campaigns, and case studies, in order to reveal the key elements that your nonprofit should be focusing on now to achieve fundraising success in 2022 and beyond.

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Elevation

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

What about it was compelling? Something about it made you care, and made you feel connected. When was the last time a piece of NGO content moved you? Whether it came in the form of an email, a Facebook post, or a website homepage, chances are it told a story and involved real people.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

We want to hear ALL about your day – from favorite tools that make your job easier to where you normally eat for lunch. Share your day with us by filling out the form below. Don’t be shy! THEN send me a picture of you and a brief bio. Loading.

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The Agitator

JUNE 18, 2018

So, Simpson’s paradox shows us we need to be looking at both the forest and the trees. Moreover, you can also train your acquisition efforts to find more donors like these committed donors, making sure you are bringing the right people into your organization.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JUNE 12, 2014

We created this series as a fun way to help us better understand our community’s needs and to also let other nonprofit communicators know they aren’t alone in the crazy, chaotic world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. (And No need to be shy – Share your day with us. “See, Mom? Now, it’s your turn!

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NonProfit Hub

JANUARY 1, 2018

Every year we analyze our client performance data to determine any new trends or derive patterns that accurately predict how successfully a program will aid in behavior change. After many client engagements around the globe, we found several key factors that drive behavior change and adoption. Here are the top five:

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Nonprofit Fixer

APRIL 22, 2024

One quick note: As many of us know, sometimes quotes are misattributed. If you find a quote here that you think is misattributed, kindly let us know!! Change allows us to innovate and adjust, and no matter how scary it is, it is needed.” - Patrick Riccards, Driving Force Institute “For innovative leaders, we fail more than most see.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

When we enact grief with intention, and in concert with other people, we can find and create moments of relief, comfort, and even joy—and those moments can sustain us. 1 Hope, too, requires us to reject indifference. 1 Hope, too, requires us to reject indifference. Joy is not the opposite of grief.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 17, 2024

Rahel Teka: When you use participatory budgeting processes as a method to directly and boldly face the legacies you’re standing on, there’s a lot of opportunity to have conversations that you’re not having otherwise. In order to actually have a system that represents us, we have to be the ones representing ourselves.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 20, 2024

We talk about cooperation as basically the Black and Indigenous practice of meeting each other’s collective needs. That is what this movement work is about. Cooperation] stays vital to our survival, but…it’s out of reach for us often as participants. View the full webinar here. That is people- and planet-centered.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As children, many of us would celebrate Black History Month in school by learning about people like Martin Luther King, Jr. If we were lucky, we might even be taught about people like Ella Baker , Fannie Lou Hamer , or Pauli Murray. Since then, every United States president has recognized the month. or Rosa Parks.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

I am working on the slide deck for Thursday’s webinar Social Media Trends for Nonprofit Communicators in 2024 and thought I would share some of the data I am finding on how people feel about using AI to generate content. What do you talk about after work with friends and family? What are you learning?

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MNA Association

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

So far, everyone who has contacted us has managed to catch the scam before falling victim, but with this amount of money, the scammer only needs to convince one. If your organization has been a target of this scam, please let us know by calling 406-449-3717, or emailing mna@mtnonprofit.org. What to do if you’re a target Please be wary!

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

So asserts a new book, Portraits of Us: A Book of Essays Centering Black Women Leading Philanthropy , edited by Toya Nash Randall, former board chair of Black Foundation Executives and “curator and catalyst” of Voice. “Simply put, Black women are the backbone of modern day philanthropy.”

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Nonprofit Productive

DECEMBER 28, 2023

For a lot of us, this don’t-know-how-to-change dynamic is common. We want to lose 15 pounds but… We want to save more money but… We want to tackle email more thoughtfully but… We want to have a better prayer life but… There’s a lot of “buts” that fill our days if we’re honest about it. Friction has a way of doing this to us.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 12, 2024

The conclusions might seem self-evident to some—but in fact, they run in the face, in some ways, of modern conventional wisdom about leadership and what makes a good leader. The Qualities of a Good Leader “The bottom line is that employees are happiest when the boss knows what she or he is talking about.” says Perreault.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 4, 2024

Healing Justice’s Origins Healing justice is a political strategy born from the brilliance of Black, Indigenous, and other people of color organizers in the US South to intervene in and transform collective grief and generational trauma resulting from colonization, systemic violence, and oppression.

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Candid

MARCH 6, 2024

Candid did something bold in 2023: We asked that funders put their trust in us by providing unrestricted grant support for our planned mission-critical work—projects we believed would make the biggest impact for the sector at large. The report highlights declines in philanthropic support for historically Black colleges and universities.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

DECEMBER 14, 2023

By Akilah Watkins The Supreme Court’s June decision on affirmative action at US colleges and universities has raised profound concerns for the nonprofit sector. The decision has caused concerns about how we award scholarships and grants, and about how we collect and apply demographic data.

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Tony Martignetti

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

There are things he’d like to see us doing better, that the sector has been talking about for many years. There are things he’d like to see us doing better, that the sector has been talking about for many years. But they haven’t changed much. But they haven’t changed much.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 28, 2023

I hold this question in my heart every day as I reflect on our current economic conditions and strategize about building a reimagined economy rooted in equity, justice, and liberation. To be serious about closing the racial wealth gap and building an economy that loves Black people, we need to focus our attention on the US South.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This means you should spend some time thinking long and hard about your own community. Are you stuck in an old-school broadcast mentality or are you enabling your supporters to share and create content about you wherever they are online? Feeling confused about Facebook? Are you participating in them?

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MNA Association

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A Commitment and an Invitation We write today with a spirit of openness, inviting you to join us as observers, commenters, questioners, participants, or anything in between on a journey of learning and humility. We want to share with you, MNA members, what we are learning, doing, and thinking about. Please – reach out to us.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Please consider making a donation to NPQ today to help us continue to publish thought-provoking content that promotes civic engagement and social justice. Birthing Black: Community Birth Centers as Portals to Gentle Futures How Private Equity Is Swallowing Up Health Care—And What to Do About It 3. We hope you enjoy reading these!

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s on us. But it really isn’t [up] to us whether we win or lose. But the winning and losing isn’t for us. It’s hard to know enough to know if the things that you’re doing are the right things. “This work, to me, is about…who I’m choosing to be in community with, who I’m choosing to fight with and fight for, win or lose.”

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