Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 16, 2021

Our mission at Nonprofit Marketing Guide is to help you: Learn Your Job. Our past research shows that 75% of nonprofit communications teams are organized in one of four ways based on how the workload for the team is created. Understand your team’s motivations by knowing their personal goals. Be a participant.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 28, 2024

To help you grow into a modern leader, we’ll explore these common nonprofit management skills you can (and should) develop at your own organization: Marketing Fundraising Public Speaking Interpersonal Communications Relationship-Building Strategic Planning Delegation Budget Allocation Problem-Solving Before training your team, invest in yourself.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 26, 2023

7 Omnichannel Customer Engagement Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations When it comes to nonprofits, engagement is the lifeblood that fuels volunteer participation, donations, and advocacy work. Enhancing your communication: you need to effectively communicate your mission, values, and impact to inspire and motivate your supporters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

By Jen Frazier , President at Firefly Partners – a women-owned, LGBTQ+ certified, and minority-owned digital marketing agency that develops accessible online experiences that empower progressive organizations to thrive. Urgency: Emphasizing the specific deadline and time-sensitivity of the campaign motivates donors to act promptly.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 23, 2019

The 2019 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report found that the most successful nonprofit communicators were putting significantly more emphasis on content marketing than less effective organizations. Clearly, nonprofits have some work to do to embrace content marketing fully and to get the most out of this strategy.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 27, 2021

Last week, we shared that we found in the 2021 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report that a majority of nonprofits said they did more communications planning (63%) and that the level of internal collaboration on the communications workload went up (57%) as a result of the pandemic. We refer to this spectrum as CALM not BUSY.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 16, 2024

Encourage participation in your program. Even the most carefully curated professional development program will produce lackluster results if your staff does not participate. Communicating generally about the program and highlighting specific offerings is critical to motivating staff, but it is only a starting point.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 29, 2024

For example, giving back through philanthropic initiatives shows that you care about your community. Additionally, revisiting your marketing campaigns can help you connect with local audiences, reach new audiences and generations , and personalize communications. Refine your marketing efforts.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

When you incorporate game-like elements and challenges into your event, you excite your attendees and encourage their active participation. As EventMobi explains , event gamification “repurposes gaming tactics for an event context, inspiring friendly competition amongst attendees and incentivizing active event participation.”

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JANUARY 4, 2024

HR professionals must develop a keen sense of how to foster a work environment that aligns employee motivations with business objectives, thereby nurturing a productive and harmonious workplace. Cultivating Communication Proficiency In HR, the ability to communicate effectively is crucial.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 30, 2014

To be successful fundraisers, we need to understand how to communicate to our audience segments in order to make the right kind of ask. To tap into that power, it’s crucial that we answer the question, “What motivates millennials to give?” This has been true from generation to generation. Encourage us to volunteer.

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Fundraising Coach

APRIL 9, 2024

In the end, both schools are successful—but School B raises more money and has better participation from students. Encourage your participants to share the donation pages online. Participants collect pledge donations from friends and family, usually corresponding with a unit of distance, time, or quantity (e.g., $1

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 1, 2024

Understanding the giving habits and motivations of your millennial audience will give you a leg up in the fundraising space. Their familiarity with technology can also enhance your organization’s fundraising and communication strategies. They have a strong desire to make a positive impact. Communication is the key to this.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 25, 2023

And often, they do operate using principles of the market economy: making a business case for support, calculating return on investment, focusing on inputs and outputs, and translating results into numbers and dollars. Nonprofits seek to meet community needs. Interdependence: In a market economy, exchanges are transactional.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 14, 2021

Set goals for individuals to keep them motivated and on a winning path. Identify an array of people with specific skills: email communications, social media, etc. Assign the right people to the right tasks so they are effective in marketing and organizing the fundraiser. Be very clear! She was so right! Be consistent.

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Getting Attention

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Here’s a proven but frequently overlooked method to help you get there: consistent communications. Consistency enables your people and prospects to recognize your organization’s communications in a flash. Now, here’s what consistency doesn’t mean: saying the same thing to everyone in every conversation and communication.

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Getting Attention

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Unfortunately, when we try to measure too many marketing measures, all we get is frustrated. Even for nonprofit communicators in large, well-staffed organizations, there’s rarely enough bandwidth to capture, analyze, share and use many marketing insights. Which messages generate action and which fails to motivate?

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In this guide, we outline the best practices and tips to help your nonprofit choose the right event type to attract the right attendees and boost participation. If you don’t clearly identify the target audience you want to reach, you may end up spending a ton of time, effort, and money communicating and engaging with the wrong people!

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Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 15, 2023

It requires excellent communication, organization, creativity, and problem-solving. GET THE BOARD FUNDRAISING WORKSHEET Communication Skills Are More Important than Ever There are so many different ways that fundraising intersects with communication. They aren’t in “sales” and therefore aren’t driven by profit or market share.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 4, 2023

By Michelle Kocin , Digital Marketing Manager at Sylogist Mission CRM – a donor management, fundraising, and volunteer management platform build for nonprofits and NGOs in the Microsoft Dataverse. When we look at the giving landscape in North America, the preferences and motivations for giving vary across different generations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2021

When you invite these loyal supporters to take action, you need to introduce your campaign in a way that emphasizes their unique value and motivates them to help kick off your fundraising effort. Explain your motivation. A strategic, personalized follow-up email can be the motivation a donor needs to take that next step.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MAY 23, 2023

Animal yoga: Host an animal-themed yoga fundraiser in a local park where participants can exercise with animals eligible for adoption. Animal movie night: Host an animal movie night where participants pay to watch classic animal-themed movies alongside their own pets. This could include animal-themed games and animal training sessions.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Send updates and targeted communications. Even if your fundraiser has hundreds or thousands of registrants, communicating with them should be simple. A well-designed event landing page is key to kicking off your event’s marketing strategy. Create an event landing page. Develop straightforward sign-up forms. Let’s begin.

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Getting Attention

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Are you in a tug of war with program colleagues for control of your communications? Raise your hand if you’ve run up against any of these challenges: Your colleague on the program side makes an outrageous communications demand based on a consumer marketing model. The marketing-program dynamic is a delicate one.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2012

As I’ve been writing my new book on content marketing for nonprofits, I’ve tried to keep in mind the different stages that nonprofits go through as their communications and marketing programs mature. Communications work is often parceled out among program staff and the executive director. Stage I: Doing.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JULY 3, 2023

They can visualize the knowledge you want to communicate to audiences. More importantly, videos can help them enhance their nonprofit marketing strategy. #2. The combination of compelling visuals, storytelling, and emotional appeal in crowdfunding videos can create a sense of urgency and motivation for viewers to make a donation.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 7, 2024

Some years ago, we participated in an activity aimed at raising awareness of gender bias among hiring managers. Only Paty, Lumi, and one other woman in the group agreed that there was gender inequity, and the other participants were astonished that the three of us aligned against their view.

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Fundraising Coach

MARCH 31, 2023

When you create marketing content to reach out to donors or introduce your nonprofit to a wider audience, how do you describe your organization? If you’re not reaching your marketing goals with your current strategy, start utilizing nonprofit storytelling. Are you getting the results you want? Storytelling increases donor acquisition.

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Getting Attention

MARCH 14, 2013

Spend some time here, even if you think you’ve got this down—this distinction is crucial to setting goals that move your marketing forward in the right direction. Needs to build participation. Reduce family conflict and violence in our community = healthier and happier families. Marketing Goals. can understand.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 7, 2023

Especially not in our digitally revolutionized marketplace where outbound (push) marketing no longer rules. Today’s most effective marketers engage in inbound (pull) marketing. This may include what’s going on in the world, what’s going on in their lives, and/or how you communicate with them. Pull, Don’t Push.

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Fundraising Coach

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

For instance, you might already use a marketing tool to schedule posts and emails in advance or have a CRM to track donor relationships to free up your team’s bandwidth. For example, you might organize a fun run, have participants collect $5 pledges from their peers per mile they run, and collect donations via online channels.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2023

According to Smartwaiver , online waivers are used to secure electronic signatures from participants prior to taking part in some kind of activity, acknowledging that they are waiving their right to hold the organizer liable for damages. This process is cumbersome and inconvenient for the customer and the organization.

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Getting Attention

JUNE 13, 2013

Have marketing naysayers among your colleagues or leadership? 3) If your observations and gut tell you that watchers are moved, provoked or startled by the video, re-open the marketing conversation to ask, “What steps do you think the Dalit Freedom Network team took to create this video, before they even touched a camera ?”

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JUNE 12, 2012

"Content Marketing" is confusing. As I’ve mentioned, I am writing my second book, and the working title is “Content Marketing for Nonprofits: The So What, Who Cares Guide to Creating Memorable Messaging that Educates, Motivates, and Raises Money.” Even marketing people aren’t sure.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JANUARY 19, 2024

Many businesses are dissatisfied when they spend time and effort writing social media posts only to receive little to no participation. Consider the following example: “This Viral Marketing Campaign Will Change the Way You Think About Viral Videos.” Take a look at successful viral marketing initiatives for ideas.

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 2, 2024

According to 360MatchPro’s employee engagement strategies , offering professional development opportunities is an impactful way to improve internal communications, productivity, and performance at your organization. Creating a mentorship program is an excellent way to cultivate a sense of community at your nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Megaphone

DECEMBER 4, 2021

This means not only knowing the needs, passions, and motivations of your donors, but also matching them to the needs, program, and format of your event. To find the right event and audience, it’s important that you understand (and then align) both your donors’ motivations and your fundraising goals. Create a contact strategy.

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