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28 Qualities of Amazing Content Marketing

Pam Moore

Content marketing is the new yet not new buzzword. The truth is content marketing has been around for decades, since conversations and business has existed. Content marketing is not a new shiny object invented via social media. Yet, content is at the core of everything brands and people do online. Without content and humans, social media and digital marketing wouldn't exist.

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Is This an Email, a Meeting or an Instant Message?

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

We know that nonprofits rely on email and meetings for internal communications — in fact, they over-rely on them! I encourage you to add two different communications channels to your internal comms mix, in addition to email and meetings : Instant messaging , whether you use Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts, Facebook Messenger/Workplace or some other similar service.

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A Comprehensive Guide: How to Make an Accessible Nonprofit Website

Elevation

In essence, the internet is designed to be accessible for all persons with all soft/hardware, languages, locations, and abilities. Though accessibility may seem like an idealistic standard, it is actually a legal necessity. According to UsableNet research , accessibility lawsuits have increased 181% from 2017-2018 with no signs of slowing. Thus, it the website designer’s responsibility to ensure that their website includes all types of users.

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[PODCAST] Growing Good With Maggie Stuckey

NonProfit Hub

Nonprofit Hub’s newest Hubcast series, Growing Good, is all about how young nonprofit professionals can sustain and grow our industry for the better. As startups and other for-profit companies ramp up their offerings for new employees, young people are especially pressured to forgo nonprofit work. Our most recent episode features Maggie Stuckey, Executive Director of the Lincoln Parks Foundation in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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Marketing Mix: the 4 P’s

Thunderhead Works

By Tom Peterson. Not too long ago many nonprofits looked askance at the idea of marketing. In the mid-nineties, an organization I worked with was raising about $3 million a year from what we would today call marketing. Some colleagues—particularly Michael Cervino, who had helped grow Habitat for Humanity—and I had created a marketing plan, based on the results we already had from direct mail tests.

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Goals for Internal Communications at Nonprofits

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

What are your internal communications goals? Not sure? It’s time to figure it out and create some, just like you create goals for external communications. Nearly 40% of nonprofit communications staff say that internal communications to other staff and the board are an essential or high priority. For nearly everyone else, it’s a low or medium priority, but still part of their workload.

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Why major and legacy donors think your fundraising communications stink!

iMarketSmart

First, it is not all your fault. Well then, can we blame it on leadership? Leadership should share the burden of blame because fundraisers tend to feel a lot of pressure to do what’s always been done. In many cases they are driven (by leadership) to avoid trying anything new in case it doesn’t work. If that happens they fear the attempt might be considered a waste of donor money.

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How to Identify, Grow, and Retain Your Most Loyal Donor Base

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Your most loyal donors are your multichannel donors. Multichannel donors support you in every way possible. They follow you on social media, donate to your cause, rally their Facebook friends, and participate in your events. You should want all of your donors to interact with your organization the way multichannel donors do! According to a recent DonorPerfect study , you can expect that multichannel donors will contribute triple the amount of online-only and offline-only donors.

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Are Press Releases Still Relevant?

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

As a media correspondent, Antionette Kerr has seen A LOT of bad press releases. But despite the changing ways nonprofits get in touch with the media, press releases can still be an important part of your media and PR strategy. During Antionette’s next budget-friendly webinar , she is sharing the hottest press releases she’s seen as well as tips on how you can create your own.

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Why major and legacy donors think your fundraising sucks.

iMarketSmart

First, it is not all your fault. Well then, can we blame it on leadership? Leadership should share the burden of blame because fundraisers tend to feel a lot of pressure to do what’s always been done. In many cases they are driven (by leadership) to avoid trying anything new in case it doesn’t work. If that happens they fear the attempt might be considered a waste of donor money.

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What Fundraising and Strength Training Have in Common

Ann Green

About a year and a half ago I started doing strength training with a personal trainer. My initial assessment was humbling, to say the least, and at the beginning, there were several times I wondered “Why am I doing this?”. But I’ve benefited so much. Not only am I stronger, but I’ve lost weight, I’m sleeping better, my mood is better, and I have a more robust immune system.

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Newsletter: How Much Do Partnership Pros Make in 2019? [INFOGRAPHIC] ; Why Your Nonprofit Needs an Audience Strategist ; Newman’s Own Wants More Companies to Follow Profits-to-Charity Model

Selfish Giving

Robert Rose over the Content Marketing Institute has written a helpful article on the The 7 Core Roles of a 2020 Content Marketing Team. Knowing that nonprofits are just coming around to content marketing and likely wouldn't or couldn't hire for all seven roles, I asked Robert about nonprofits starting with #5 Audience Development Manager and #6 Influencer Wrangler.

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Tell Us What Your Work Day Is Like

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

How is your day going so far? We would love to hear what your typical Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator looks like for our popular blog series. Tell us all about the day-to-day work that keeps your organization going. What’s going on at your desk right now? Are you chugging coffee all day? Do you hate your donor management system? Have meetings all day?

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9 Ways to Make Your Nonprofit Website Accessible [Infographic]

Elevation

The internet is a designed to be a free place to share knowledge and resources, to connect each other from all across of the world. In this age of convenience, it is far too easy to forget about demographics who use the internet differently.

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Giving increased.7% but you won’t hear anyone celebrating and that’s really too bad

iMarketSmart

Remember when the Lilly School predicted at least a $13 billion drop in giving due to the Trump Tax Cut (which would have taken us to $376 billion)? Instead, we saw a.7% rise in real dollars to $427.71 billion. They should have egg on their faces for their doomsday prediction. Instead I’m seeing reporters spin the data saying “the tax cut made people less generous.” Good grief!

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Mixed Links for Nonprofit Communicators – June 21, 2019

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Vintage Year. Montgomery, AL Howdy, friends! I am taking a few days off to spend time with the family, but I would never leave you without the best articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. We have a lot on Instagram with some email and video marketing thrown in. It’s time for Mixed Links… Campaign Monitor analyzed millions of email campaigns and put together some Email Marketing Benchmarks with breakdowns by industry and day sent.