Beth Kanter

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Panel at Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit Last month, at the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit in Seattle hosted by Microsoft, I moderated a roundtable, “Empower Employees with AI Productivity Tools,” with leaders from three nonprofits: Alex Duncan,, British Heart Foundation; Jon Townsend, National Trust; and Joel Ramjohn, Agape Source.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

But this modern reality comes with an inconvenient truth: Our public institutions are not equipped with the updated skills they need to effectively tackle the world’s ever-escalating challenges—not by a long shot. Consider the climate crisis. There’s good reason for that, as these skills are foundational to the work of a well-run city.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JUNE 14, 2021

Here is the latest submission for our Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator series. She manages the Robert H. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Educational Ministries from Houghton College in 2008 and graduated from SUNY Empire State College with a Master of Arts in Social and Public Policy in December of 2020.

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Public and Social Policy Communication Public Policy Public and Nonprofit Management 109

Nonprofit Megaphone

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This holiday season, give back by shopping for unique gifts from nonprofit online stores. In this gift guide, you’ll find selections from nonprofits that you won’t see in regular shops. What’s more, your purchases from nonprofit shops will support the essential work of these organizations and the individuals they help year-round.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2023

3 Creative Volunteer Recruitment Strategies for Nonprofits Volunteers recruitment is crucial to many aspects of your nonprofit’s operations. They also advocate for your organization and dedicate their time and energy to completing important projects for your nonprofit. Volunteers run your fundraising events.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

When you hear the words “Nonprofit Board Meeting,” what comes to mind? If you are like most nonprofit leaders, the thought of a Board meeting creates feelings of dread, the blahs, the “let’s get it over withs”, the “I don’t have time for this” mindset, or the “I don’t know why we even bothers”. How do you feel? In one word, “UGH.”

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Bloomerang

JUNE 2, 2021

Communications plans help offer structure and strategy that can save you time and energy in the long run, while getting your desired objectives accomplished. Storytelling is one of the hottest buzzwords in the nonprofit industry, and in marketing in general. Each nonprofit has a story too. This is part 3 in a 4-part series.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 27, 2021

Once you and your team have worked together to fine-tune your internal nonprofit strategic communication initiatives by constructing a mission statement, vision statement, and identifying your core values, you can now start to strategize your external nonprofit communication efforts. Your Who : Your Audience. Around 18% is common.

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Thirteen years ago, fewer than a dozen digital news nonprofits led the charge to shift news to a nonprofit model. Now, there are more than 400 digital news nonprofits nationwide , supported by an ever-growing coalition of philanthropies that include the Walton charities.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

You might be inspired to bring your idea to life by starting a nonprofit. million registered nonprofits in the United States, making these charitable organizations a staple of modern society. However, any new nonprofit needs a strong foundation to thrive. Around 30% of nonprofits cease to exist within 10 years of their founding.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Retrofitting all the windows in your office to save energy, for example, or switching company vehicles to electric, as a model for your industry and the world. Then take the remaining time and energy and publish an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal about the need to pass climate legislation in the Senate. ”) It must be addressed.

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Nonprofit Fixer

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

But the major piece was in the Wall Street Journal , which is a more conservative pro-management and pro-corporate outlet. This isn’t just for nonprofits or just for businesses. It reduces carbon emissions, soul-crushing commutes, energy costs at the office, and possibly car accidents. Another benefit is productivity.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Also, please reach out to your local waste management company to inquire about services they may provide which could be of assistance. Switch to energy-efficient light bulbs and appliances. Making the switch to energy-efficient light bulbs and appliances is a great way to reduce your business’s impact on the environment.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Advisory committees let your nonprofit work with others who want to see you succeed. As a nonprofit leader, you likely want to do your best to ensure that the voices and experiences of the communities you serve are represented in your work. Often, this means conducting periodic focus groups, needs assessments, or surveys.

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Nonprofit Fixer

JANUARY 31, 2024

Mistakes as an Executive Director One of the things I am most passionate about in this world is nonprofit leadership development. I have served as an executive director five times and believe that the nonprofit sector is largely not doing a great job of training and preparing people to lead charitable organizations. Until it wasn’t.

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Nonprofit Fixer

JANUARY 13, 2023

Struggling with your confidence in any role, including work in nonprofit organizations, can impact your performance, happiness and overall approach to your career. I believe imposter syndrome is pervasive and could be the greatest threat to nonprofit leadership. Is imposter syndrome different in nonprofit work?

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

“Libraries store the energy that fuels the Imagination. According to the Public Library Association, 93 percent of public libraries report leaving Wi-Fi on when buildings were closed to the public. The recently passed COVID-19 relief bill contains $200 million specifically for public libraries.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

His ideas changed paradigms of public health and human rights, and he demonstrated that it’s possible to deliver world-class medical care to people in the most resource-poor settings imaginable. Yet Paul Farmer was also a brilliant, original, and often iconoclastic thinker when it came to nonprofit leadership.

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The Charity CFO

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Nonprofits exist to meet a societal need or provide a public benefit. Unlike an organization whose primary goal is to make money, nonprofits exist to meet a community’s needs. That said, while it’s not your primary purpose, your nonprofit must find ways to make money. . How do nonprofits make money?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2022

When you’re able to set the stage with analytics and donor attributes – like their wealth rating, public giving records, and personal interests – you can strengthen your understanding of each donor segment, and position your asks to speak to specific audiences. Related Resources: Social Media best Practices for Nonprofits.

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Candid

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Nonprofits focused on diverse talent acquisition in 2022, survey finds. nonprofits (79 percent) plan to prioritize talent acquisition in 2022, up from 59 percent in 2020, a report from human resources firm Nonprofit HR finds. public health system. public health system in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 4, 2024

Image credit: Yannick Lowery / www.severepaper.com Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s fall 2023 issue, “How Do We Create Home in the Future? 39 The program also helped Burrell strengthen his communication, project management, and team leadership skills.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Image credit: AndreyPopov on istock.com How can frontline communities access public funding for climate solutions? The same elements [needed for] BIPOC communities to benefit from public funding are also the most promising approaches to address…climate change. The answers are, well, complex.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Risk of Lower-Income Work “The lower you are in [an] income group, your exposure increases,” said Sunil Dahiya, an analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air , explaining that oftentimes people with lower incomes work outdoors, which increases their risk. They need to use the public bus…the air flows inside the bus.”

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Nonprofit Megaphone

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In the vast and often overwhelming landscape of nonprofit funding, smaller organizations frequently find themselves navigating the shadows of larger, more established entities. Grants for nonprofits are among the most valuable sources of funding available, but also often among the most competitive. And the best part?

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 16, 2023

Firman has also gotten involved with projects in local mosques and the Islamic society of North America to install greener wudu (pre-prayer washing ritual) stations and switch to renewable energy. Reiber also teaches that the role of human beings is to help manage God’s creations.

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Fundraising Coach

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Learning grant writing is a rite of passage for many nonprofit professionals. After all, you’re presenting your organization for judgment with real money and support on the line during a time when many nonprofits are seeing drops in their donation numbers. Step 2: Review Your Nonprofit’s Project. Funding structures.

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Getting Attention

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Please post YOUR nonprofit marketing job here. Associate Director, Media and Public Relations American Association for Cancer Research (Philadelphia, PA). Communications Manager America Achieves (Washington, DC). Communications Manager America Achieves (Washington, DC). Communications Manager Oceana (Washington, DC).

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Getting Attention

JULY 14, 2015

Post YOUR comms job here —nonprofits, grantmakers, B Corps & vendors serving nonprofits. Communications Manager for Reproductive Rights ACLU (New York, NY). Development & Marketing Manager Minnesota Spay Neuter Assistance Program. Digital Director, Public Media Project Kindling Group (Chicago, IL).

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

As nonprofit professionals, we often wear many hats and work long hours. No matter what your role is within your organization, you’ve likely seen the ugly face of nonprofit burnout from time to time. Fight nonprofit burnout by focusing on your story. Did you happen into the nonprofit sector? What was your “why”?

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

While these solutions are important and advance every year, public health is increasingly challenged by factors that are outside what we traditionally define as the health care sector. For example, a solution to help Elisa manage her diabetes might not work in her community because of the cultural or economic barriers that are present.

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Health Public and Social Policy Entrepreneurship Food 96

NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Exhaustion and exasperation often lead to a sense of: “Not another thing to manage.” The needs and aspirations of local rural communities should always be at the forefront, but those of us engaged in place-based rural development know that we cannot load additional responsibilities onto civic infrastructures that already struggle to keep pace.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 9, 2023

Your nonprofit is growing. Capital campaigns are a great reason to talk about the work your nonprofit does. It’s time to ask yourself some tough questions: Does your nonprofit have the structure in place to manage your growth and the additional work that will come with your realized dream of a new building?

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 10, 2024

In its wake, a grassroots movement to create distributed, renewable energy has gained considerable ground. The logic behind this community movement for distributed, community-owned renewable energy is clear. Public Policy: A Hit and a Miss Are the lessons of Hurricanes Maria and Fiona being taken to heart?

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Our nation and Baltimore were thrust into a public reckoning on racial injustice and systemic inequality. Nonprofit CEOs and executive directors across the country worked overtime to help their organizations navigate this uncertain terrain and remain viable while continuing to execute their missions and serve their communities.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

We hear from folks all the time who are looking for new fundraising ideas for nonprofits, especially fundraising ideas for a new nonprofit. Sometimes when people are looking for new fundraising ideas for nonprofits, they’re looking for a quick solution to solve their funding problems. Avoid them!). Broken Model #1: Self Pay.

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Getting Attention

JANUARY 25, 2013

Please post your nonprofit marketing position here for full-time or part-time staff, consulting or internship opportunities. Communications and Technology Manager , Association of Small Foundations (Washington DC). Communications Manager , Communities Creating Opportunity (Kansas City, MO). New Opportunities.

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