Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Here’s the latest installment in our series on the “Day in the Life” of nonprofit communicators, where we ask you to describe your day in your own words. . Tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro. Rachel Lichtman is the Communications Manager at The Trevor Project. Around 5:30 p.m.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 24, 2022

In a series of blogs, I will share with you how I (who is by NO MEANS an Asana expert) use this platform to capture and organize impact stories, create our social media and communications calendars, and field requests for marketing materials. In Asana, I can also create tags. Intake Form. Kaarmin Ford, MA (She/Her/Hers).

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Ann Green

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Generate blog content: Consistent blog content can keep community members tapped into your organization and eager to sign up for your upcoming events. Write content regularly, such as posting every other week to communicate important updates about your organization.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Incorporating local keywords into your website’s content, meta tags, and headings is also crucial for local SEO success. Blog posts about local industry news guides to Minneapolis neighborhoods or coverage of local events can make your website more appealing to a local audience and improve your SEO.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 15, 2011

Welcome to our latest edition of Mixed Links where I share the good stuff on nonprofit marketing and communications that I’ve come across over the last week or so. If you’ve been reading a lot of nonprofit communications blogs, you know storytelling should be a big part of your communications plan.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Your audience will remain interested in your work if you consistently produce fresh articles, blogs, or updates about it, and search engines will see your website as being active and relevant as a result. This may take the shape of instructive blog entries, tales with a powerful effect, or other excellent materials pertinent to your cause.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MAY 14, 2020

During our Communications Director Mentoring Program group call this week, we discussed ways to get program staff to take and share better photos. This blog has a nice explanation. Here are several ideas from the group that I thought you could use too! If you do a lot of tabling, instead of having staff take photos of the table (SO.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MAY 6, 2023

These mentions could come from blogs, websites, online newspapers/media outlets, videos and on various social platforms such as LinkedIn and Twitter. Mentions can happen at any time based on the original content you’re sharing from your blog, or content you’ve curated via an e-newsletter or Facebook.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MAY 4, 2023

Store files & other assets with ease, streamline messaging with your team, and capture requests from other departments without losing any communication. It also has a built-in chat feature that nonprofits can use to communicate with staff members in a fast and convenient manner.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MAY 3, 2024

Clients can conveniently book online 24/7, reducing phone tags and missed opportunities. Improved Staff Communication and Collaboration Running a salon often involves seamless communication between stylists, receptionists, and management.

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

Your nonprofit’s brand is an important tool for communicating your mission to supporters and earning their trust. We’ll go over important factors to consider when you rebrand your nonprofit throughout this blog. Full-scale, extensive rebranding projects can carry expensive price tags.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JULY 9, 2010

I use a custom Alltop page to track the top 40 or so blogs I want to follow instead. The big problem with that approach, however, is that I can’t follow the newer blogs or those with smaller readerships that haven’t received blessed Alltop inclusion status yet. I confess I’m guilty of the exact same thing.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MAY 16, 2019

You can post links in the comments or tag us @npmktgd. The post 15 Authentic Moments to Create on Social Media appeared first on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog. Anything silly or quirky – individual staff members, teams, happenings. If you use any of these examples as inspiration, share them with us!

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Care2

JANUARY 25, 2010

Blogs: Building Your Online Community If your organization doesn’t have a blog, you should consider launching one in 2010. Search engines, Facebook and Twitter reward valuable blog content with expert status and donor support. Tags: Online Marketing Social Networking Trends.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2009

Seems my great blog post yesterday on communicating clearly wasn’t clear. Communication is key in relationships, and expecially in relationships with your donors. Watch this quick video and see if you can tell how unclear communication can literally sink a ship. See if you agree.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2009

For this month’s Nonprofit Blog Carnival , Nancy Schwartz shares the path to year-end communications and fundraising success. Jeff Brooks, formerly of Donor Power Blog , is now blogging at Future Fundraising Now. Beth Kanter offers seven tips for measuring the success of your blog. Fundraising.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Yes, a blog is vital to sharing stories about your organization and the passionate ambassadors you have on your team -but an e-newsletter goes one step further to keep your core audience of supporters and key donors up-to-date. Top Blog Post Title Generator Tools. Notify Them of Donation Campaigns. Best Practices. We want to help.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 22, 2020

Is your data up to date and tagged correctly? Make sure names are free of grammatical errors (such as all lowercase or uppercase letters), so you can properly personalize and address your communications. You’ll also want to segment your data if you haven’t yet, and update the tags for each contact. Social Media.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This blog post delves into the top 10 extensions specifically designed to enhance business management and productivity. Grammarly: Polishing Professional Writing Across Platforms Grammarly is more than a spell-checker; it’s an advanced writing assistant that enhances clarity, tone, and professionalism in written communication.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

This is the eighth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. email addresses are not allowed, and as a general rule, should not be used for your nonprofit communications publicly or internally. Tagging corporate sponsors and partners.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

OCTOBER 12, 2023

On-page optimization: Optimize your website’s title tags, meta descriptions, header tags, and content for your target keywords. Share and promote your content: When you publish a new blog post , article, or video , be sure to share it on your social media accounts.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

This exercise is about creating your brand story so you can use bits and pieces throughout your communications. What we notice by working with Nonprofits for quite a while is that they usually write articles and blog posts about what they think is valuable for their target audience. Get your Brand Story Guide and Template.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

This is the ninth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Don’t be a photo tag spammer either! Twitter Cards allow website developers to clarify how website and blog content should appear in tweets.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

PR Newswire is offering subscribers of this blog a very affordable rate of $69 for a web release. Check out this blog post by my assistant (and little sister), Kristina Leroux Brown: Tip Of The Day: Add Subject Line and More to Your Email Links to find out how. Tags: Mixed Links Nonprofit Communications. Thanks Aimee!

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Fundraising Coach

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Most nonprofits already have a dedicated website with donation pages, blog content, contact forms, testimonials, and other information about their cause. Let’s say a user lands on your nonprofit’s homepage and takes 20 minutes to get to your blog page. Improve both metrics by placing clear links to your blog in the sidebar. .

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 29, 2020

As an experienced strategist, she has a demonstrated history of operations, program development, community engagement, strategic marketing, and communications. Start a Listening Campaign. It is a crucial time to connect and engage with your organization’s supporters.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 20, 2021

Many VAs can help with the more skilled and technical tasks required for communication, development, volunteer management, and program management. While you can hire a VA who lives anywhere, there may be advantages to hiring someone who lives locally and is familiar with the community. . Communicate clearly and often.

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2023

When your nonprofit’s brand is cohesive and well-defined, you’ll ensure both long-standing and new supporters immediately recognize content on your organization’s social media, blog, and email. You use this hashtag whenever you post on Instagram, send a Tweet, or tag a supporter in a status.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 10, 2009

I want it to be specific to the workload of nonprofit communicators. syncing status updates, scheduling blog posts and tweets in advance). Prioritizing the typical list of communications tasks most nonprofits are trying to implement (e.g., Tags: Nonprofit Communications Publication Management The Book.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MAY 7, 2010

NTEN has compiled all the great stuff (presentations, blog posts, etc.) Tons of smart, progressive nonprofits talking about communications, marketing, technology, fundraising and more. Sign this petition to the FCC from the nonprofit community. Tags: Mixed Links Nonprofit Communications. Feast away ! Bad Behavior.

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Getting Attention

APRIL 13, 2010

I blogged this practical but fresh perspective from Andrew Sullivan’s keynote talk at NTC ( NTEN ’s annual conference). Online communications is unequaled for relationship building, but is reinforced through direct mail, phone outreach and in-person gatherings. Online readers, even when alone, are not really alone.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 30, 2009

The TwtPoll results are often surprising and can be very useful for nonprofits as they forge ahead with their 2010 communications strategies. 3) Does your nonprofit have a blog? [ [link] ]. 43% Yes… our organization blogs regularly. 14% No… no plans to launch a blog. 14% No… no plans to launch a blog.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

This is what I call Mixed Links - an occasional tasty cocktail of great links for nonprofit communicators. Hope: Using Emotions in Your Nonprofit Communications. Nonprofit Blog Carnival. Write a blog post about it and share it with Nancy by September 25, and maybe you’ll see yourself in the Carnival. Volunteering.

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2022

However, it is also worth noting that in addition to their advantages, producing a nonprofit explainer video often comes with a price tag and can be a time-consuming process. Consider the following styles of explainer videos: Animation: Use graphics and animations to communicate abstract or intangible ideas.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Also, integrate keywords into your website’s content, page URLs, meta titles and descriptions , alt tags for images , headers, etc. SEO Tip 2: Write Effective Meta Titles and Descriptions Meta titles and descriptions are HTML tags (simply put, bits of code) that provide a brief description of a web page. Just don’t overdo it.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 3, 2010

Several communications directors at small nonprofits, when learning of this program, said. Writing: how to most effectively communicate our messages to our target audience in a compelling, concise and consistent manner. Years of experience as a communications director. Tags: Online Courses Professional Development.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JUNE 9, 2023

Interaction includes commenting on their post and being tagged in their photos. But it doesn’t stop there, if you watch closely (and follow him) you can see through your activity feed he is actively communicating with his audience as well as the community within his niche. What can Len Gordon’s Gram hacks teach you?

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