Selfish Giving
AUGUST 1, 2017
Today on CauseTalk Radio , Megan and I talk to Luconda Dager , President of Velvet Ice Cream , about their long-term partnership with Pelotonia , a grassroots bike tour that funds cancer research at The Ohio State University. On the eve of this year's ride, Pelotonia is working with partners like Velvet Ice Cream to exceed last year's total of over $24 million raised.
Pam Moore
AUGUST 2, 2017
Tired of spinning your social wheels trying to market your business on Facebook? Join me for a free live training event on Thursday, August 3rd at 2pm et ! This is a special Facebook live webinar event packed with actionable tips and strategies you can implement immediately. Grab your seat right now. Free Facebook Training Webinar – Here is What you will learn: . 6 foundational pillars for success for Facebook marketing for business.
Fundraising Coach
AUGUST 3, 2017
Hiring a fundraising consultant, while incredibly important, can be tricky. With so many firms and so many service packages, how can you tell which is the right choice for your nonprofit? Well, don’t worry! We’ve broken the process down to 5 simple steps to help you figure it all out: Understand your organization Read up on consulting services Use your network Be thorough throughout the hiring process Communicate and sign Read on to see our tips for hiring a fundraising consultant !
Mission Minded
AUGUST 3, 2017
Full disclosure, this post comes with tips, passion, AND some serious jams. What an exciting moment! You’ve decided to change your nonprofit’s logo or visual identity. You realized it just doesn’t do your organization justice. Now it’s time to start picking out your favorite colors and fonts, right? Wrong. Nonprofit design should be a strategic […].
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
AUGUST 3, 2017
Joshua Clay. We Internet users have a voracious appetite for online video. Video is increasing in nearly every digital channel, from email to web pages to social networks. Done right, it drives clicks and conversions better than text alone. Marketers across the spectrum are planning to increase their use of videos to educate, service, and sell. Yet, for small nonprofits, producing a worthwhile online video can seem daunting and unattainable.
iMarketSmart
JULY 31, 2017
Focus- Focus your marketing (especially your expensive marketing like face-to-face meetings) on people who have a lot of money. Generate leads- Generate highly-qualified leads among people who have a lot of money using a survey. Prioritize- Prioritize the leads (hot, warm, cool, cold, and opt-out). Arrange calls and visits- Reach out to meet with the hot (and some warm) leads.
Fundraising Coach
AUGUST 1, 2017
Online giving definitely is growing. And if you listen to the growth statistics, you may feel you can fully fund your organization using online giving tools. If that's you, stop. Seriously. When something grows from 1% to 2% it's 100% growth, but it's still not the other 98%. According to a recent GivingUSA webinar, online giving is now 8.3% of all giving.
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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
JULY 31, 2017
Emma Morris. Welcome to 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. We’d love to feature YOU in this series! Don’t be shy – tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro. Emma Morris is the Online Media and Communications Associate at Nobel Women’s Initiative.
iMarketSmart
AUGUST 4, 2017
Jim Collins, author of the best-selling book Good to Great , has three big recommendations for all organizations: Get the right people on the bus. Get the right people in the right seats. Get the wrong people off the bus. So what does this mean for you? I think nonprofits tend to fail when it comes to “getting the right people in the right seats.” Too often they make people do things they don’t want to do and/or aren’t good at doing.
Concord Leadership
AUGUST 2, 2017
Replacing an executive director is very hard to do. It can be traumatizing to the board, the staff and the community being served. But sometimes it needs to be done and doing it right is critical to the overall health of your organization. I write this post from the perspective of someone who has replaced […]. The post 4 Tips On Replacing An Executive Director appeared first on The Concord Leadership Group, LLC.
The Agitator
JULY 31, 2017
Who could resist reading a blog post with this title — The most deadly error in fundraising — from esteemed fundraising creative Jeff Brooks?! I jumped right on it. Jeff’s most deadly error: “Assuming your donors don’t like to hear from you — and that too much contact (whatever that means) will drive away donors, causing your donor file to erode and eventually collapse.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
AUGUST 2, 2017
The modern media relations lessons we teach at Nonprofit Marketing Guide were reinforced for me personally last week. Even though I wasn’t seeking media attention, I got it, resulting in my quote appearing online and/or in print in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Miami Herald, the San Francisco Chronicle, Time Magazine, and a bunch of regional dailies and trade press.
Getting Attention
AUGUST 1, 2017
Guest blogger Mark Horvath founded and leads Invisible People who shares how to boost your YouTube views from meh to magnificent. BTW, Mark’s video version of this post features a extra tips not found here. I was thrilled with the performance of Invisible People’s YouTube channel for the last few years. With a focus on homelessness education, an average of 40,000 monthly views was amazing, or so I thought.
iMarketSmart
AUGUST 3, 2017
Learn how to use email in a way donors love, how to use it to track engagement, some pitfalls to avoid, and much more. Visit iMarketSmart.com to learn more about MarketSmart. The post Email as a Fundraising Tool – Episode 4 appeared first on MarketSmart, LLC |.
The Agitator
JULY 30, 2017
I noted in Part 1 of this series that “our trade won’t transform from its current eminence-based state to one more evidence-based overnight. In fact, the path to empiricism and scientific proof will be long and rocky. And plenty of disagreement, tension, name-calling, or worse will mark the journey.” Beyond the usual battles involving egos there are practical/financial reasons why the reliance on myth, folk remedies and pronouncements by the eminent will prevail until that bubble collapses under
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
AUGUST 1, 2017
Here’s what’s happening at Nonprofit Marketing Guide this month: Online Training: Aug 2: Thought Leadership for Nonprofits: Marketing to Build Your Authority and Share Expertise with Kivi Leroux Miller. Learn how to become a well-known thought leader whose work, knowledge, and experience are actively sought out by others. Registration is FREE for everyone.
NonProfit Hub
AUGUST 2, 2017
It was always a dream of mine to become the executive director of a nonprofit organization. After developing the right relationships and building a career in marketing, that dream became a reality. My goal from there was to disrupt the nonprofit world and look at it through the lens of a business person. What I’m focused on is making a sector-wide shift from simply surviving to absolutely thriving.
iMarketSmart
AUGUST 2, 2017
When done right, email and print work very well together to produce results. But too many nonprofits turn those effective channels into “spam” and “junk mail.” I call this brand of offensive, obnoxious, and irritating marketing “spamming, spraying and praying.” Here are 3 questions to consider before you hit that button or sign that purchase order yet again: 1- Did you get their permission to communicate with them?
The Agitator
AUGUST 3, 2017
For many people, the value they find in what they do (after the pay raise and reputation gain) is whether they are actually making a difference. Are they improving something — their product, service, work culture, community, the world? It seems like there are two points on the calendar when we tend to reassess such things … the dead of summer (during the August doldrums when our minds tend to wander as the workplace perhaps slackens) and the dead of winter (as we contemplate the new
Getting Attention
AUGUST 1, 2017
Guest blogger Mark Horvath founded and leads Invisible People. Today he shares how to boost your YouTube views from meh to magnificent. BTW, Mark’s video version of this post features bonus tips not found here! Here’s Mark… I was thrilled with the performance of Invisible People’s YouTube channel for the last few years. With a focus on homelessness education, an average of 40,000 monthly views was fantastic, or so I thought.
Lets Talk Nonprofit
AUGUST 2, 2017
Savvy donors and foundations are using Guidestar to learn about your organization. And savvy nonprofits are using Guidestar to tell their organization's story. So, what does your Guidestar profile say about you? FIRST THINGS FIRST. WHAT IS GUIDESTAR? If you're not familiar with. Guidestar , it's an online database with public information about every single IRS-registered nonprofit in the United States.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
AUGUST 4, 2017
Zambra, Asheville, NC. Good Friday to you, kind people! Let us partake of the finest Mixed Links in the land… ( But make sure you stay til the end to check out the great webinars we have lined up for you over the next several weeks! ). Beth Kanter shares The Power of Small Wins: Celebrating Your Nonprofit’s To-Dones. Have a slow website? Facebook will rank links to slow-loading pages lower in people’s news feeds.
The Agitator
AUGUST 2, 2017
In another incarnation, I spend a lot of time trying to get farmers to adopt ‘best practises’ that would improve their productivity and profitability while at the same time lessening their environmental footprint. What one sees is that there are basically three groups of farmers and growers out there: The top 20% ‘super farmers’ who eagerly embrace any idea that holds reasonable promise of improving their farming performance; The middle 60% who need much more educating,
The Agitator
AUGUST 1, 2017
OK Kids — especially the young (under 50) and those blessedly old — I’m gonna take you on a trip down Memory Lane in hopes of dealing with Tom’s question Who’s a Poor Fundraiser to Believe? If you have the usual internet-gnat attention span, please move on now. This is gonna take a few minutes. Let me explain. Better yet. Stick with me because there’s a great treat at the end.
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