Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 30, 2024

We’ve just published the 2024 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report ! Thousands download this report every year (it’s our 14th edition) as it’s the “go-to” source for what’s REALLY happening in the world of nonprofit communications. Editing tools in word processing software, your browser, CMS, etc.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Whether you are a team of one or several, you probably have questions about how other nonprofit communications or marketing teams are set up and how they function. We’ve also learned a great deal by coaching and mentoring hundreds of nonprofit communicators over the last decade. Communications Team Size.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This week, Kristina and I revealed our tentative nonprofit communications training schedule for 2024. Instead, we’ll share them in our community and on social media. The post Reveal Video: Our 2024 Nonprofit Communications Training Schedule appeared first on Nonprofit Marketing Guide.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MARCH 9, 2023

Email Marketing Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations Email marketing can help any Nonprofit, Charity or NGO to engage with potential donors and to nurture previous donors. Check out these tips and get started with email marketing for your Nonprofit. One of such tools is Respona.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Effective Lifecycle Email Marketing for Nonprofits (Strategies + Examples) Do you want to gain more email subscribers for your nonprofit organization and keep these supporters giving again and again? Email marketing is an effective tool for nonprofits. Generating more email signups isn’t hard at all for nonprofits.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 27, 2021

Once you and your team have worked together to fine-tune your internal nonprofit strategic communication initiatives by constructing a mission statement, vision statement, and identifying your core values, you can now start to strategize your external nonprofit communication efforts. Understanding Your Audience.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 10, 2024

and I found myself gravitating towards Communications, Media Studies, and yes – Marketing. As nonprofit marketers, we are constantly using the laws of psychology and sociology, sometimes without even realizing it. But they are also strong marketing tools. Turns out, this was exactly where I needed to be.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Curious how long nonprofit communications staff have been in their jobs and how many people are looking for new ones? We were, so we included these questions in the survey for the 2023 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report coming out in January 2023. What a Development AND Communications Director Really Does.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 20, 2022

If you’re curious about how often other nonprofits communicate on Facebook, Instagram, email, or any other communications channels, we have answers from the 2022 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report. . Communications frequency is one strong indicator of effectiveness.

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Prosper Strategies

AUGUST 2, 2022

What is nonprofit communications, anyway, and how is it different from marketing, fundraising and storytelling? The post Nonprofit Communications vs. Marketing, Fundraising and Storytelling appeared first on Prosper Strategies.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 13, 2020

I participate in numerous social media groups for nonprofit communicators, and several times a year, someone wants to debate the difference between marketing and communications. The practical reality is that both words, marketing and communications , are used interchangeably in the nonprofit sector.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

But that’s not what we mean when we talk about a communications or marketing audit! All of that said, the idea of doing a full communications and marketing audit at your nonprofit can feel very daunting because it feels like a lot of work. How do your communications and marketing look?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 11, 2023

Staying current with the latest digital marketing and fundraising trends and benchmarks is essential for nonprofits. Use the data in these research reports to develop your content and fundraising strategy to ensure that your nonprofit is focusing its limited resources on the tools and methods most likely produce the best results.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MAY 6, 2021

Every now and then, a fundraising consultant will write a post essentially saying that all nonprofit communications and marketing should be driven by fundraising goals and staff, with a few limited exceptions, like media relations and general branding. The 12 most common nonprofit marketing goals.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 15, 2021

.” Here are some of the ideas and issues you should be naming and owning in your nonprofit as a communications director. The Marketing and Communications Planning Documents. What should your marketing and/or communications plans look like? The Seven Styles of Nonprofit Writing.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MARCH 10, 2023

How to Start with Nonprofit Influencer Marketing in 2023 Want to make good use of the power of influencer marketing to promote your nonprofit, charity or social enterprise? How does influencer marketing fit in the larger picture on marketing strategy for non-profits? Check out these tips by Lilian Sue.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

Are you ready to get serious about measuring your nonprofit marketing success? One of the reasons that measuring nonprofit marketing communications work is so hard is that we have a lot of different marketing and communications objectives to consider. We have lots of advice to get you started!

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Tony Martignetti

JANUARY 15, 2023

Erica Mills Barnhart: Overcome Common Communications Conundrums It’s time to change the way you think about marketing, says Erica Mills Barnhart. Listen to the podcast Get Nonprofit Radio insider alerts! Turn … Continue reading Nonprofit Radio for January 16, 2023: Overcome Common Communications Conundrums →

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Your website is the foundation upon which your digital marketing and fundraising campaigns are built. How well your nonprofit’s email and social media campaigns perform depends upon how well your website communicates your mission and programs and whether it is optimized to capture leads and inspire action.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2023

By Shay Lessman , Content Writer and Editor for Qgiv — an online fundraising platform empowering 20,000+ nonprofit fundraisers to raise money for their causes while keeping costs low. There’s a lot to learn from them about text marketing. Text messages are another valuable tool you should add to your outbound communications strategy!

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JULY 12, 2021

We’ve been able to re-start our Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator blog series with three new submissions from readers like you! What goes on in a typical day in your life as a nonprofit communicator? The post Nonprofit Communicators, Share Your Day appeared first on Nonprofit Marketing Guide.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JULY 20, 2021

What are all of the things that nonprofit communications teams need to think about and potentially act on to be successful? To put some structure around it, so that you can start to understand your choices and then make them, we’ve identified ten keys to nonprofit communications success. Here are the 10 Keys.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In our 2023 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report , we asked if you would be looking for a job with a different organization in 2023. More than a third (34%) of nonprofit communications staff plan to look for new jobs in 2023. Source: The 2023 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report Is the Great Resignation Still Going?

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 8, 2023

If you have difficulty saying No to your supervisor or colleagues as a nonprofit communicator, you are not alone. Three-quarters (74% of survey participants for the 2023 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report ) said it was difficult or very difficult to say No to their supervisors when they make a work request.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Written by: Randye S Spina, MBA Reading Time: 4 minutes I’ve served on several nonprofit boards in marketing and communications roles and have seen first-hand that marketing is often an afterthought. Even for nonprofits lucky enough to have healthy budgets, it’s often the most misunderstood function.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 18, 2023

With a focus on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads for nonprofits, attendees of this two-hour webinar will learn how to integrate content marketing into their social media strategy and current best practices to increase engagement on social media. Please Note: This webinar will be recorded. There are no refunds.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Email Marketing Tools every Nonprofit Needs. With Email Marketing, you can capture valuable traffic. Check our these Email Marketing tools and tips by Lilian Sue. Events offer opportunities for non-profits to personally interact with potential donors and the larger community. Invitations to Events. StoryLab.ai.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

We spend a lot of time on this blog talking about the good things you can do to improve your marketing and communications for your nonprofit. Instead, good marketers focus on narrowing their work down to getting the right message to the right person at the right time. You will have a million great communications ideas.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

APRIL 26, 2024

Marketing Case Studies: How To Use Data-Driven Marketing To Boost Sales Are you frustrated by flatlining sales and digital marketing campaigns that miss the mark? This article will explore how to leverage these powerful tools to unlock your full digital marketing potential. You’re not alone.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MAY 11, 2021

In the second edition of The Nonprofit Marketing Guide , I wrote. Those with corporate experience sometimes narrowly define nonprofit marketing as brand management, public relations, and advertising. In fact, marketing in the nonprofit sector is much, much more than any of these incomplete assumptions.”

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 17, 2023

Kivi and I are knee-deep in data getting ready to publish the 2023 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report. With as much grief as we give Facebook, it appears that over half of nonprofit communicators think it is the best network to help you achieve your objectives. appeared first on Nonprofit Marketing Guide.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

Marketers everywhere are yelling from the mountain tops about how this is the future of marketing as we know it. With all these conversations about artificial intelligence, it might be overwhelming to consider where to begin or how to utilize it as social impact communicator. AI is no longer a futuristic concept.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

It’s here – our most popular download of the year highlighting the year’s nonprofit communications trends! The 2023 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report marks our 13th edition and this might be my favorite. Changes in Knowledge or Understanding followed with 52% of nonprofits choosing this objective.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Stephanie Krieg It’s been a minute, but I am so excited to bring you a brand new submission for our Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator series! Stephanie’s Bio Stephanie Krieg, MSHC, CHES, is an advocate for health promotion and communication. This series lets you describe your workday in your own words.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 18, 2020

Are you looking for a basic template or pattern to follow when creating a nonprofit marketing strategy? Let’s tackle this using cards from the Nonprofit Communications Strategic Planning Card Deck. You can get your own card deck to play with on Amazon.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 14, 2023

The generosity of donors is crucial to your nonprofit organization’s success, which means that you should strategically plan your communications with them. Part of creating great donor communications is personalizing each message to its recipient, making them more engaging. Consider your communication channels.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

If you have an employee who is one of the 34% of communications staff looking for a new job , we have some ideas on how to keep them around. According to our 2023 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report , two factors seem to help nonprofits retain employees. This is another huge number.

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