Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 9, 2023

In my journey to find sounding boards or just straight-up empathy, I’ve found online communities like Facebook groups useful, as well as leveraging my job’s employee assistance plans and relying on my circle of friends for support in real life. But this can be risky. You know when you’re just not feeling yourself.

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The Charity CFO

MAY 20, 2022

Your circle of supporters widens. As a nonprofit Executive Director, the amount of time you invest with your board of directors can vary wildly depending on your organizational culture and the time of year. But make no mistake: Nonprofit board development is critical to your success. Board members can learn new skills.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 18, 2020

Is a degree needed to excel in the role? Nonprofit roles are often filled by word-of-mouth, allowing the homogeneity of social circles to directly impact the potential diversity across candidates. Are you focused on improving diversity within your organization this year? . And for good reason. Avoid screening for “culture fit”.

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Selfish Giving

MARCH 30, 2009

This section will have you going in circles, but I promise the exercise won’t be in futile! Going in circles is actually a good thing when you see them as rings making up a target. These are my closest supporters and excellent prospects for additional sponsorships. Dotting my bullseye are my current sponsors.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

DECEMBER 15, 2022

An excellent place to talk about this is Motherhood Community. They need to know how important social media is in their child’s life and an absence from it can make them afraid that they will be shunned in their social circles. It was a constant battle on all ends and some people felt left out. Avoid Judging. Don’t.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 14, 2021

Run the ideas by your inner circle for some buy-in. You must be in the driver’s seat and have a solid grasp of best practices when running a fundraiser, including a product fundraiser. Here are some important elements that we’ve found essential to success throughout our company’s 16 years in the product fundraising space. Identify both.

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Fundraising Leadership

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In her first book, Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine , author, ER physician and former professor of medicine, Uche Blackstock writes about growing up in Brooklyn with her twin sister, Oni, watching their mother, a Harvard Medical School grad, deal with patents and workloads. Physicians are Black women. 1, activist Angela Y.

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Affnetz

AUGUST 7, 2023

Free And Affordable Nonprofit Software Solutions Free And Affordable Nonprofit Software Solutions / mike crum Free and Affordable Nonprofit CRM, Donor Management, Fundraising, Stakeholder Engagement Software Solutions Nonprofits are infamous for tight budgets. Additionally, a lot of software is customisable.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 23, 2023

Now, who exactly are all of these people in your database? There’s a rule of thumb home organizers use that says you should always keep your belongings in a place where you can see them, or you risk forgetting that you have them. It’s a bit like a packed kitchen cupboard with items stacked three deep. What’s in there, anyway?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 28, 2021

Here’s a white paper from the Veritus Group I find particularly on point and an excellent one from Simone Joyaux. . There are three pillars of transformation required of philanthropically-funded nonprofits that want to thrive in the post-disruption, post-COVID economy. Some of the seminal work has been done by the Walter and Evelyn Haas, Jr.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

By Réjane Woodroffe. For three years, Réjane Woodroffe lived a life of extreme opposites. On a weekly basis, she undertook the 12-hour commute between Cape Town and an isolated community on South Africa’s southeast “Wild Coast.” ” The worlds could not have been further apart.

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Nonprofit Fixer

APRIL 25, 2023

Everyone needs and gets help on their way to excellence. Photo credit daniel-minarik In the past 20 years, coaching has exploded as a topic. Coaching is now one of the leading frameworks for personal and professional transformation and growth. Despite its popularity, leadership coaching remains a bit of a mystery to many people.

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Nonprofit Fixer

JANUARY 25, 2024

In business and politics and among celebrities, the circle of people you can trust often gets smaller and smaller. It can be lonely and isolating to be a nonprofit executive director. Being a leader of any kind may sound sexy (or scary), but anyone who has been a leader understands the isolation, the ups and downs, and how lonely it can be.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

APRIL 4, 2012

It is an excellent book on how we can say more by saying less through visual communication. Second, draw a bigger circle that is your problem. Then something starts to happen - we can look at the two circles in front of us and have activated our visual processing system. That’s fine, but it’s not enough.

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Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 15, 2023

It requires excellent communication, organization, creativity, and problem-solving. Whether you’re speaking in front of a crowd of 5,000 at a rally or to a donor circle of 15 wealthy individuals, fundraisers learn to be comfortable talking to an audience, listening carefully to the audience’s response, and adapting their message as needed.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

Image Credit: Ketut Subiyanto on pixels.com The need for childcare is well known. So too are the costs of not having childcare. Without access to quality childcare, many parents cannot work full time and become trapped in a cycle of poverty. What can be done to address this gap? Coastal Enterprises, Inc., Recruiting a cohort is tricky.

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The Agitator

MAY 11, 2011

The first technological culprit is Microsoft’s “Excel”, or for that matter any of the digital spreadsheet programs that preceded Excel going all the way back to Visicalc in 1979. But truly, I haven’t lost my mind, so bear with me. That’s how long I’ve harbored this particular grudge. And response-reducing.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

There was an excellent piece by Bonnie Carlson in AdAge recently about how our national mood of anxiety is causing interesting marketing trends. For us, this means we need our champions reaching out to their circles of influence - and we need to treat social media not as a fundraising tool but a listening post and relationship-builder.

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iMarketSmart

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Provide excellent service. Now, I’m going to circle back to the title of this article. Which ones want that kind of relationship and why? What can you do for them ? If you don’t first figure out which ones want a relationship with you and the reason why, you’ll learn 2 things quickly: 1. Prospects lie. Who knows?!

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Fundraising Leadership

JULY 7, 2023

Liz Elting, CEO and founder of The Elizabeth Elting Foundation, is a keynote speaker at Take The Lead’s 2023 Power Up Conference & Concert. Liz Elting was never lost in translation. I loved languages,” says Elting, who speaks Spanish, French, Latin, Portuguese and English, and has lived in Spain, Portugal, Canada, Venezuela and her native U.S.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 11, 2015

She has excelled in development and leadership positions in the nonprofit sector for 15 years. Also, these volunteers can widen your circle of influence by introducing new prospects to your organization. Kathie Kramer Ryan is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub and the founder of Arroyo Fundraising Fluency. Gift Acceptance Policy.

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The Agitator

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I can already hear the departmental wagons being circled and arguments against the position being prepared – “We already do this” … ”We can’t afford it” … “We really have to be autonomous because ‘those other people’ aren’t specialized enough” – you know the game. In a word: silos. The fact is that donors own your brand, not you.

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The Agitator

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Something simple like requiring fundraisers to pass a math test, or requiring Excel operators to pass a thinking test. Not only in the political circles of Greece and Italy and in Washington, D.C. Numbers that reflect the reality of too much bank leverage … too much spending … too little revenue. This has nothing to do with ideology.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

APRIL 24, 2021

This article was written by Erwin Lima , storytelling and innovation philosopher, author and owner of www.lifebeyond.one. Hello, my fellow seeker. How are you feeling today? It’s a lot that’s going on around us, ain’t it? And it’s no coincidence it feels as if everything is continually speeding up. How can we find that? A pandemic.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 8, 2019

The CEO has monthly “listening circles” with staff. ” Jacqui: “Our organization has just instituted a formal work planning process whereby each person’s work plan is captured in an Excel spreadsheet. Nonprofit communicators are in the business of…well, communicating. Those seven are in our main office in D.C.

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NonProfit Quarterly

AUGUST 8, 2023

Public policy wasn’t really a part of our culture. Until it was. With Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, New York’s junior Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Representative Nydia Velázquez had, that summer, championed the Act across the finish line in record time and with bipartisan support.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Product branding, corporate branding, personal branding, and even service branding are all examples of branding. Branding is integrated into every area of our life, whether you’re a corporate leader, a marketing specialist, or just an ordinary Joe purchasing a cup of coffee before a long day of work.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

And then circle back and tell us about your experience here on Frogloop! frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!"

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Elizabeth Abel will explore the role of the board in elevating fundraising activity and discuss effective strategies to recruit, engage, and deploy diverse board members as fundraising ambassadors. Full Transcript: Steven: All right, Elizabeth, I’ve got 2:30 Eastern officially. Is it okay if I go ahead and get this party started?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2022

In other words, you need to get your money from many different sources, not just one awesome foundation, one government grant, or one generous donor. Diversified fundraising revenue creates stability and keeps you from being dependent on one source of funding. Cue the sad music. Time was not on their side, and it was heartbreaking.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 9, 2022

A monthly giving program, also known as a monthly giving society or circle, is where donors sign up to automatically donate a specified amount to an organization each month. Diversifying your funding is critical to your nonprofit’s stability and ability to achieve your mission. Peer-to-Peer and Team Fundraising. What are Donation Pledges?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Yes, it is year-end fundraising season. Can hardly believe it. Kind of has been for a little while, so this is obviously a very timely topic. I’m so glad all of you are here. . I’m Steven over here at Bloomerang. I’ll be moderating today’s discussion, as always. . And just a couple of housekeeping items. Lori: I do too.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

I’m super excited and I’m glad to see you all here joining us. I’m Steven. I’m over here at Bloomerang, and I’ll be moderating today’s discussion as always. . Just to be on the lookout for an email from me with all those goodies. We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A. But don’t be shy.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. Harvey McKinnon and Andy Robinson will discuss how to build stronger donor relationships and how you can use this strategy to improve every kind of fundraising. Full Transcript: Steven: All right, Andy, Harvey, we’ve got 3:00 Eastern. Harvey: Yes. . Andy: Please do. .

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