Ann Green

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Year-end fundraising season is here and it’s the busiest time of the year for most nonprofit organizations. You need to plan carefully. If you just send one fundraising letter and wait for the donations to pour in, you’re chasing rainbows. Your donors are busy and may put your letter aside to handle later, and never get to it. You may be thinking of not using direct mail at all because it’s too expensive, and only sending email appeals.

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Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Capital campaigns are a mainstay in nonprofit fundraising. There's something special about a time-limited, specific goal like a capital campaign. It gets us motivated to give generously and accomplishes results we can see and touch. But things are changing. For starters, in our smartphone saturated world we have many more options to connect with donors.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Katelyn Baughan. If you haven’t set up some type of welcome series for new donors, you are missing out on a great chance to build a relationship. Katelyn Baughan created an automated welcome series for The Children’s Inn at NIH that nurtured new donors over time instead of throwing them into regular email marketing. Today, Katelyn shares how the new welcome series fit into their revamped email marketing strategy, how it was implemented, and its results. ~ Kristina.

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Getting Attention

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Does the protagonist of your story know what she’s getting into—how you’ll use her story, and the risks are of sharing it? Probably not, if you’re like most communicators. Let’s change that. Organizations like ours—that share stories regularly to activate our people—wield power and influence. When a protagonist lends us her story to share, she opens herself up to curiosity, criticism, misunderstanding, and sometimes even physical harm.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2018

By Katherine Turner , Digital Marketing Specialist at Cureo , a nonprofit collaboration software that helps nonprofits and communities work better, together. The success of a nonprofit is impacted by how well it can coordinate the work of a variety of teams that include staff and external stakeholders such as board members, volunteers, and community partners.

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 24, 2018

This October 31 st , it’s not ghosts and ghouls that most nonprofit fundraisers are worried about. As the End-of-Year fundraising season approaches and strategic planning for 2019 looms, technological advances, donor demographic shifts and nonprofit workloads all pose challenges for nonprofit fundraising professionals. These are six of the biggest issues that development staff should be keeping an eye on this Halloween, and how to overcome them. 1.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2018

If you aren’t following Marketoonist by Tom Fishburne, you are missing out. His recent cartoons on Digital Transformation are perfect for so many nonprofits. There’s the one about the virtual meeting on digital transformation where the tech doesn’t work and someone asks for a fax. And the one where the boss talks about how important digital transformation is. and then passes it off to the summer intern.

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iMarketSmart

OCTOBER 26, 2018

We know that it’s not always easy to determine where you should be focusing your efforts (and your dollars). So we developed this nifty little menu of Engagement Fundraising marketing channels to help you sort it out and prioritize where you should invest your time and money to get the best bang for your buck. Please feel free to print it out and share it.

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Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Capital campaigns are a mainstay in nonprofit fundraising. There’s something special about a time-limited, specific goal like a capital campaign. It gets us motivated to give generously and accomplishes results we can see and touch. But things are changing. For starters, in our smartphone saturated world we have many more options to connect with donors.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2018

My porch. Auburn, AL. I hope everyone had a great week! Let’s end it with a bang by taking a look at the best articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of marketing and fundraising. I’ve got Snapchat tips, social media icons, ideas for bots, and even a little Harry Potter for you today. Yep, it’s time for Mixed Links… Into Snapchat?

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This article was originally published in Nonprofit Hub Magazine. Whenever I find myself with a few hours of free time, I like to consult nonprofit professionals to help make their organizations more robust and self-sufficient. It’s fulfilling and a lot of fun, but it can also be frustrating and tedious. And, almost always, grants are the driving force of that frustration and tedium.

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iMarketSmart

OCTOBER 24, 2018

My pal Brady Josephson (self-proclaimed charity nerd) had me on his relatively new podcast titled: The Generosity Freakshow. I encourage you to take a listen. If you do you’ll learn: Why I’m a ‘pissed-off’ donor; How to generate highly-qualified leads for major and/or legacy gifts; Why most charity communications are totally misaligned with donor needs; How I feel about the deficit in leadership among many nonprofits; Why fundraisers lose their marbles resulting in ‘

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Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 24, 2018

I got a great question from a reader last week. Q. Given the current political environment, it's clear that Americans are interested in supporting brands that have deep engagement with a relevant social issue. I'm curious how you see nonprofits fitting into this conversation. Beyond being a partner for these brands, how should nonprofit organizations engage in discussions around current events through their own communications (and is it appropriate for them to do so)?

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2018

We are very excited to have donor research expert Adrian Sargeant join us for a brand new webinar this month on donor loyalty. If you think you should be making more money from your current list of supporters, this webinar is for you! Adrian will show you the latest research and findings from the world of donor retention and how you can apply it during a BRAND NEW WEBINAR you won’t want to miss: How to Build Donor Loyalty: Lessons from Testing and Research. 60-Minute Webinar with Adrian Sa

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Flickr Creative Commons photo by Steve Baker. It keeps getting harder for nonprofits to get news coverage — particularly in local markets where media organizations are slashing their reporting staffs and shrinking their news holes. But there’s one time of year when many outlets still shine the spotlight on nonprofits: the holidays. Most outlets see the holiday season as a time when many of their readers and viewers make charitable gifts — and their audiences expect to see more

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