Sat.Dec 24, 2016 - Fri.Dec 30, 2016

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Free Webinar on February 7! How NGOs Worldwide Use Online Technology and Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Date: Tuesday, February 7. Time: 1pm EDT (New York). Cost: Free. Presented By: Heather Mansfield. Over the last two decades the global NGO sector has embraced online technology, but economic and political factors and the quality of Internet infrastructure regionally often affects how well NGOs worldwide can use new technology. Not surprisingly, there is a gap between the utilization of online fundraising tools and social media by NGOs in high-income nations and those in developing nations.

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3 Great Fundraising Webinars to Kick Off 2017!

Fundraising Coach

These three trainings will get your 2017 fundraising and goal setting off to a great start! The 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective People & How to Beat Them (free) Join neuropsychologist Dr. Theo Tsaousides as he teaches us about the 7 blocks the brain puts in the way of accomplishing our goals. He's an expert on how the brain works and how we can help our brains help us complete our goals.

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Best of 2016: More Gold For The Lapsed Donor Mine

The Agitator

We sifted through our posts for a few of the ‘most-read’ of 2016. Perhaps as the year closes, you’re regretting losing as many donors as you did. Can they be retrieved? Here are two posts (including the article linked to in the first sentence below), with very useful supporting links and comments, that provide a ‘crash course’ in recovering lapsed donors.

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Still Time: 5 Ways to Up Year-End Giving

Getting Attention

The clock is running out on year-end fundraising. Whether you’re exceeding expectations or are barely meeting the bare minimum, you can do even better. I know what you’re thinking: “There’s so little time.” But I want to share five doable adjustments you can make right now to increase year-end donations. 1) Expand your prospect pool program participants, volunteers, and advocates (Low-hanging fruit alert!).

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3 ways to use direct mail effectively in the age of social media

iMarketSmart

Although direct mail requires printing and postage, we still include it in our marketing plans because it can be effective if you do it right. Don’t discount the traditional methods. MarketSmart has generated millions of dollars for clients with direct mail. Combine online and offline channels. Often it is best to combine direct mail with an Internet landing page.

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Week of Freebies! Day 5: Storybanking and Photobanking

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Happy Holidays! It’s that time of year where we show our readers some love with some FREE goodies. . It’s our last blog post of 2016, and we’re making it a good one! We know lots of you have questions about how to store and manage your stories and photos. We conducted a survey this summer as well as researched various tools, conducted interviews, and talked to the pros to bring you: Storybanking and Photobanking: How to Organize Stories and Images at Your Nonprofit.

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Best of 2016: Would You Approve This Campaign?

The Agitator

We’ve been sifting through our posts for a few ‘must-reads’ from 2016. Here’s one that is mostly in praise of someone’s else’s excellent work. Being the Agitators that we are, we’ll have plenty of advice and opinion on offer in 2017. But for now, to close out 2016, we simply urge you in the year ahead: Be Brave!

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Please Don’t Eat The Poinsettia

The Agitator

I thought a holiday motif would be appropriate to remind us of the many myths we take for gospel. Some are true, some are not. As in: “Feed a cold, starve a fever.” [True] … “Don’t sit too close to the television you’ll hurt your eyes.” [Not true] … “Don’t swallow your gum; it stays in your stomach for seven years! [Not true] … “Don’t crack your knuckles or you’ll get arthritis.

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Week of Freebies! Day 2: Five Factors of Successful Nonprofit Communications

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Happy Holidays! It’s that time of year where we show our readers some love with some FREE goodies. . You may remember a few months ago, we asked you to share your nonprofit communications success stories. The end result is this great e-book we’ve created with Big Duck: What it Takes to be Great: The Top Five Factors of Successful Nonprofit Communications Teams.

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Week of Freebies! Day 3: 10 Editorial Calendar Templates for Nonprofits [Time Sensitive]

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Happy Holidays! It’s that time of year where we show our readers some love with some FREE goodies. . Today’s freebie is a good one! We’re giving away our $49 e-book: 10 Editorial Calendar Templates for Nonprofits. But this offer is only good until midnight Eastern tomorrow, December 29, 2016. In this e-book, we’ve taken all we have learned about editorial planning, multichannel marketing, and content creation and rolled that into 10 different sample editorial calendars for you.

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Week of Freebies! Day 4: Email Metrics Explained

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Happy Holidays! It’s that time of year where we show our readers some love with some FREE goodies. . You don’t have to have a math degree in order to make sense of your email metrics. We show which metrics you need to be tracking and how to do it in today’s freebie: Email Metrics Explained. This 28-page download will show you how to measure: Open rates.

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Week of Freebies! Day 1: Go Short with Your Annual Report

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Happy Holidays! It’s that time of year where we show our readers some love with some FREE goodies. . You don’t have to spend 100+ hours creating a long annual report that only your board members and close friends will read (and let’s be honest, they’ll just say they read it.). Instead, use common sense, save your nonprofit huge amounts of time and money, and create something people will actually look at.

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Best of 2016: What’s Next?

The Agitator

We’ve sifted through our files for a few of our most-read posts of 2016. Here’s the advice Roger gave fundraisers the day after the US Presidential election went to Donald Trump. What’s Next? We all woke up on this post-election morning to uncertainty and turmoil. What does the election of Donald Trump mean? Of course, no one really knows.