NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Truth to Power is a regular series of conversations with writers about the promises and pitfalls of movements for social justice. What role do you feel that nonprofit organizations play in bolstering or barricading movement building? People ask: what’s the answer to why revolution doesn’t happen? Journalists get to cheat.

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NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This is the fifth article in NPQ ’s series Solidarity Economies: Building Community Power. Together, we hosted a monthly book club and a workshop series in 2019 that laid the foundation for what is present today. Image credit: Repaired Nations. Composition by Gabby Henrie. This is how the Kikosi Collective developed. It takes money.

Law 84

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The composition of leadership shifted soon after the grocery’s formal incorporation in mid-2019, with the first LCG and LACE (Louisville Association for Community Economics, the nonprofit developer of the grocery store) board elections seeing candidates of color chosen for a majority of seats.

Food 101

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

“Brilliant experts can write compelling policy papers filled with breakthrough ideas to make our society better. That’s radical for any nonprofit, much less a policy org (even one self-described as not your Grandma’s think tank). We created an outreach and event program, but [felt] obliged to break the mold.

Communication 71

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Selfish Giving

JUNE 21, 2020

This is the final part of a four-part series on the four key legal issues you - my readers! Understanding whether an “arrangement or expectation” between a company and nonprofit is subject to UBIT requires looking at both the terms of any agreement as well as the reality of the relationship.

Law 147

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

We learned that this could be an intimidating process, and we have since changed the video interview to be a conversation with one person from the Child Care Business Lab. States limit the ratio of children to adults, require extensive record-keeping and written policies, and have strict rules to protect the physical safety of children.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 25, 2022

It’s never too early to start planning for your nonprofit’s GivingTuesday and year-end fundraising efforts. In this 6-part blog series, we’re highlighting key digital features your organization can start implementing now to boost fundraising this fall. Why should nonprofits use digital advocacy forms now?

Public and Social Policy 52

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 15, 2019

Twenty-five intriguing episodes of The Perfect Scam podcast series can be found on the nonprofit’s website, and I binge listened to EVERY SINGLE ONE of them over the holidays. The top three reasons nonprofit folks are afraid of dipping their toes into the podcast waters… You don’t know what to talk about?

Nonprofits 75

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JULY 20, 2015

Here’s 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. Tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro. We’d love to hear from you too! Here is her typical day: Before 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Communication 95

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Editors’ note: This article is from the fall 2022 issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly, “The Face of Climate Change.” As Jackson explained in our Around the Table conversation, “That’s ultimately what’s going on every time we eat a meal. 22 To quote Jeff Chang in “A Conversation about Cultural Strategy,”. food is life.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 19, 2023

“RULER OF THE EARTH” BY YUET-LAM TSANG Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” How do social movements come to make the language of economic systems change their own? percent of income, compared to 13.2 percent in 2019.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2018

I just finished up our two-part webinar series on how to measure the effectiveness of your communications work. (If Part of the challenge with answering the “what should we measure” and “what numbers should I pay attention to” questions for nonprofits is that it depends. Supporting major donor fundraising.

Recruitment 67

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 2, 2018

Vu Le of Nonprofit AF breaks it down in Is Equity the New Coconut Water? This summer, my colleague in the Nonprofit Marketing Guide’s Inclusive Conversations Series, Kim Pevia, and I hit the road to gather with nonprofits. Start a conversation with someone who needs to be pushed to think about race and justice.”

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 27, 2023

The Imaginal Cells of the Solidarity Economy: Community Ownership by Anke Dregnet This recent discussion, hosted by Shareabl e , launches a new webinar series, curated by Emily Kawano. The event was co-organized and co-sponsored by Shareable , the Resist & Build’s SE Narrative Circle, the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network.

Public and Social Policy 85

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning can help your organization meet challenges effectively and take advantage of new opportunities. Despite the many benefits that strategic planning can bring, 49 percent of nonprofits lack a strategic plan. Nonprofit strategic planning FAQs What is strategic planning for nonprofits?

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Nonprofit governance and management Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofits 117

Nonprofit Marketing Blog

AUGUST 5, 2014

Whether you’re you looking to win support for an issue, impact policy, or inspire donors to take action and give, a campaign rarely succeeds without a solid, thoughtful plan. What is the current conversation around your issue? What current events or opportunities can you use to your advantage? Chart the Course.

Public and Nonprofit Management 85

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Dunham and Company released an Online Fundraising Scorecard that looked at 151 nonprofits online fundraising activities. The report either gave a big "F" or a mediocre rating to most of the nonprofits in the report. Out of 151 nonprofits, only 24 of them scored 76% or above. How welcoming!

Fundraising 78

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Trauma is an invisible unhealed wound caused by an overwhelming event, series of events, or enduring conditions that remains active in our bodies, our psyches, and our ways of relating to others. It’s everywhere. But this comes at a high cost. Many individual expressions of trauma are at least partly collective in origin.

Public and Social Policy 137

Public and Social Policy Health Activism Culture 137

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 23, 2023

For Nonprofits Who Want to Turn Social Media Followers Into Donors, Supporters, and Advocates. Look for part 1 – What’s next for nonprofits and social media – and Part 2 – Where Should you Be on Social media? I think it’s fantastic when nonprofits want to measure social media success and document their results.

Public and Nonprofit Management 62

Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy Management Participation and motivation 62

iMarketSmart

APRIL 10, 2023

It’s easy to think of this as face-to-face, one-on-one conversations. Questions can arise in Donor telephone conversations (one-on-one but not face-to-face) Donor focus groups (face-to-face but not one-on-one), or Donor surveys (neither one-on-one nor face-to-face). They’re a great starting point for conversations.

Psychology 52

Psychology Public and Social Policy Environmental Participation and motivation 52

iMarketSmart

APRIL 11, 2022

Most of this series focuses on the motivation side. An analysis of over a million nonprofit tax returns showed the answer.[17]. This is years of data from most American nonprofits. In conversation, this might begin with saying, “I help our donors give smarter.” They can listen for upcoming financial events.

Law 52

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NonProfit Quarterly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Image credit: Yuet Lam-Tsang Editors’ note: This article is from Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine ’s summer 2023 issue, “Movement Economies: Making Our Vision a Collective Reality.” …I advise everybody, be a little careful…best stay woke, keep their eyes open. Power doesn’t go away as the economy changes.

Public and Social Policy 85

Public and Social Policy Participation and motivation Food Universities 85

iMarketSmart

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Emotionally, a series of small wins feels more attractive. 46% referenced events. It also allows for broader conversations. It’s relatively easy to find people to manage donor events. The essential fundraising handbook for small nonprofits. The Nonprofit Academy. And you’ll raise four times as much money.[4]

Fundraising 52

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Examples include, “Would you be willing to consider including us as one of the nonprofit organizations in your will?”[18] The other person can continue that conversation. So, it can help to have a non-death reason to start the conversation. It’s just that some outside issue is pushing the conversation.

Psychology 52

Psychology Public and Nonprofit Management Public and Social Policy Finance 52

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But if you’ve never heard of Bloomerang beyond the webinar series, we are also a provider of donor management software. That’s awesome, really involved in their nonprofit leadership program, which is really cool. We’ll start with a few key trends in philanthropy that will ground our conversation.

Leadership 60

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 7, 2009

As you may know, I am in the middle of writing the full-length, printed book version of Nonprofit Marketing Guide, to be published in Spring 2010 by Jossey-Bass. Here is the my list of 10 marketing realities for nonprofits, with abridged commentary. Reality 5: Nonprofit communicators are transforming into community organizers.

Public and Social Policy 86

Public and Social Policy Marketing Marketing Public and Nonprofit Management 86

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

One of the best tactical sessions I attended at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference week before last was “Optimizing Your Site for Search Engine Performance: And We Ain’t Talkin’ Just Keywords.&# Here is the slide deck. April 28: Creating a Social Media Policy for Your Nonprofit.

Nonprofits 82

Nonprofits Technology Marketing Marketing 82

Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" This is the most important part of your web analytics.

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Non-Profits Fundraising Fundraising Advertising 54

Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

And so, again, I am Sabrina Walker Hernandez, and I studied political science and public administration and I obtained a nonprofit management certification from Harvard Business School and for the last 25 years, I’ve worked in a nonprofit industry. And for those that kind of balked at that, we changed the conversation.

Fundraising 118

Fundraising Fundraising Nonprofit Administration and Development Nonprofit governance and management 118

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

Steven: Yeah, this is awesome, you’re a stalwart of the Bloomerang webinar series. In addition to being super active in her San Francisco nonprofit community, she also does a lot, including teaching a CFRE class. It’s not going to happen though unless you begin the conversation. Claire, how’s it going?

Public and Social Policy 129

Public and Social Policy Insurance Values Psychology 129

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Each year Heather Mansfield of Nonprofit Tech for Good presents a free webinar featuring the top ten digital marketing and fundraising trends to prioritize in the following year. The nonprofit sector needs to have an honest conversation about the effectiveness of social media.

Marketing 128

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

Good writing, and I mean good writing, should be a top priority at your nonprofit because good writing is a tool of tremendous power, influence, and leverage. The nonprofit world swims in an ocean of written documents. We spell poorly, and we know less grammar and sentence structure now than when we played tetherball.

Participation and motivation 92

Participation and motivation Nonprofits Public and Nonprofit Management Nonprofit Administration and Development 92

Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" 60) Search « Why Every Nonprofit Should Embrace the Web 2.0

Poverty 31

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. We've scoured the nonprofit-sphere for high-quality conferences, both large and small, broad and specialized, here in the U.S. Nonprofit Management.

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Based on these returns, it is no wonder so many nonprofits implement similar programs.

Activism 28

Activism Education Education Fundraising 28

Care2

MAY 29, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Based on these returns, it is no wonder so many nonprofits implement similar programs.

Activism 28

Activism Education Education Fundraising 28

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

This is the seventh post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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