Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 10, 2024

Like Herding Cats I can recall a few times in my nonprofit journey when coordinating a new marketing campaign across departments felt more like herding cats than orchestrating a symphony. The initiatives and campaign didn’t take off when or in the ways they should’ve because we were a fleet moving in too many different directions.

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CNPE

APRIL 10, 2024

These 3 classes help board members be more effective - and more willing to serve! We invite new board members onto our team because they have valuable skills that our organizations need. But too often we don't spend enough time helping them translate their experience into effective board work.

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Candid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Last year, we shared our crowdsourced list of red flags that funders look for in grant proposals—the things that immediately reveal the weak points in an application and raise questions about the organization’s credibility. Not surprisingly, the question we got most in response to that article was: What are green flags for funders?

Education 111

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Pam Moore

MAY 19, 2023

Embrace the Future: How Marketing Leaders Can Unleash Team Success with AI and Digital Transformation Digital transformation is no longer a buzzword. Limiting beliefs can be detrimental to the success of your digital transformation plans and can hold your team back from reaching their full potential.

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Pam Moore

MAY 19, 2023

Embrace the Future: How Marketing Leaders Can Unleash Team Success with AI and Digital Transformation Digital transformation is no longer a buzzword. Limiting beliefs can be detrimental to the success of your digital transformation plans and can hold your team back from reaching their full potential.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

Congratulations — you found us! Nonprofit marketing and communications is all we do here at Nonprofit Marketing Guide. We focus on the needs of nonprofit marketing and communications professionals and offer community, training, coaching, and mentoring. Or maybe you’d prefer to get right into the conversations!

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Candid

APRIL 2, 2024

Asking grantmakers for funding can be an intimidating process, especially for small or lesser-known nonprofits. You need to ensure that funders can find you online and learn about your work. Many small nonprofits find the cost of maintaining a robust website prohibitive, but you can create a Candid profile for free.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 5, 2024

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on when it makes sense to celebrate a nonprofit anniversary: Dear Charity Clairity, We have a 75 th anniversary coming up, and I really think we should do something to celebrate this milestone. You think this is an important milestone. And for how many years.

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2024

The great Maya Angelou once said, “If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going.” We often talk about the role of philanthropy and the ways in which it must grow and innovate, how it has changed and evolved with the times, reacting to crises, wars, economic downturns, and more.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 4, 2024

In difficult circumstances, it’s helpful to return to the fundraising basics to ensure you’re making the most of tried and true strategies to boost your nonprofit’s donation revenue. Instead, show supporters that you care about them as individuals by adding these strategies to your email marketing approach: Create donor segments.

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The Charity CFO

APRIL 26, 2024

The right accountant can be the difference between an efficient accounting process and a total mess. So what happens after you’ve found a few firms that offer the services you need? As a nonprofit leader, you know nonprofit accounting isn’t the same as for-profit business accounting.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

PLEASE NOTE: The purpose of this article is to help those who do not normally think about their mental health and remind those of us who already deal with issues to pay attention to signs we may be burning out and need a break from work. Please, please, please contact a professional who can help you.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Today I’d like to address something practical: How we learn. If you don’t learn new things, you slowly wither. And with today’s rapid pace of change, confident learning has become critical to adapting, adopting, and feeling connected to the world we inhabit. We experimented! And we learned fast.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 3, 2024

However, managing grants efficiently and effectively can often be a daunting task, requiring meticulous attention to detail, rigorous compliance measures, and streamlined processes. It’s like a helpful program that makes managing grants easier. It helps with everything from applying for money to showing how you spent it.

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Candid

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To celebrate you, our amazing community of readers, we look back at the Candid blogs that resonated the most with you this year. We hope you enjoy rediscovering and reflecting on the 10 most-read Candid blogs of 2023. As 2023 concludes, we’ve put our twist on this yearly tradition.

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Candid

JANUARY 10, 2024

The burgeoning field of positive psychology suggests that humans have a default “negativity bias”—we disproportionately pay attention to and remember what goes wrong. This is why we tend to remember that one negative piece of feedback while the positive comments fade away). And yet, this hyper-focus may be counterproductive.

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Candid

APRIL 16, 2024

How do young people today see their role in making the world a better place, and what are the implications for the social sector? reported for “informal helping.” This, in turn, helps them learn “how to navigate pathways” through complicated systems, explained Dugan.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2024

When it comes to working with boards, things can get confusing, making it hard for everyone to work together. Let’s clear up these misunderstandings and share some important truths that can help build strong connections. But we can find a balance through education and training. ” – Joe Q.

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Fundraising Coach

MARCH 27, 2024

If you’re a bit like me, registering for a conference is not something you look forward to. So let me help you get rid of some stress. Since you’re on this website, you are showing an interest in nonprofit fundraising and marketing. So the information isn’t entirely helpful.

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Candid

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This GivingTuesday, you may want to try something a little different as part of your social media strategy : Consider social media sharing and engagement as a form of generosity. It also helps cultivate the support of a younger generation that’s also highly active on social media, potentially turning them into future donors.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

That means we will need to warm up a new IP address and rebuild our sender reputation. So, when you change the IP address you send from by moving your mailing list from one ESP to another, everyone wants to make sure you are legitimate and not a spammer. You need to warm up that domain, too.

Nonprofits 86

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The Charity CFO

APRIL 23, 2024

On today’s episode of A Modern Nonprofit Podcast, we have the Executive Director of Only Make Believe, Tamela Aldridge. When talking with Tamela, we hear a powerful message from her leadership experience within the organization and when it comes to serving others. Such a powerful message in its own way.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

Yet when we look at the nonprofit organizations we work for, we often treat them and ourselves as employees like machines, rather than living organisms. When do you reflect? Or do you only focus on the busy seasons, like end-of-year fundraising season, or whatever programmatic crunch times everyone dreads?

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 21, 2024

Here, people can learn more about the history of your organization, your mission, and how you serve the community. With so many charitable organizations competing for attention on the web, how can you make your website stand out and boost traffic? Develop quality content. Make your website mobile-friendly.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

It’s that time of year again, where we trade in our flip flops for sweaters and pumpkin-spiced lattes. We’ve curated a nonprofit reading list to help your organization make the most out of this charitable time of year. Level up your annual fund appeals Are you sending an annual fundraising appeal at the end of the year?

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

How do we build regional economies rooted in community ownership? This webinar explores: What do we mean by a solidarity economy? How do you build a community-owned solidarity economy at the local and regional levels? How do solidarity economy businesses develop viable and sustainable business models?

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

From 2019 to 2021 corporate boards increased their diversity by 50 percent , just as many social sector boards have responded to societal wakeup calls by recruiting more members who can represent the communities they serve. But inclusion that draws out board members’ unique backgrounds and knowledge in discussions can be much trickier.

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Ann Green

MARCH 7, 2024

Just like the flowers and plants in your garden, you need to give them care and attention. You should be keeping track of your retention rate. Fortunately, this is something you can fix, but donors don’t magically donate, or more important, keep donating to your organization. Obviously, we can do better.

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 21, 2024

This language includes eco-grief , defined as “the anguish and despair we feel when the places we live in and love deteriorate, along with these places’ ability to provide us with solace.” The message can be tuned out, even when it matters deeply. To the list of new climate-related emotions, we must add climate fatigue.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whether it’s very technical terms or phrases that permeate a specific genre or culture, if you aren’t a part of that group, you have no idea what anyone is talking about. See if you know what I mean when I say: TV “Be a goldfish.” ” (Curling) “I can’t believe he used a 9-iron.”

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Ann Green

APRIL 22, 2024

When I was growing up, we just had a few TV channels to choose from. We also have email, the internet, and social media, just to name a few. How does your nonprofit organization compete with all this? You need to communicate regularly with your donors and you need to do it well. What do you want your reader to do?

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NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

We still have a long way to go—to scale back all the growth that happened in the era of mass incarceration, but we’re making a dent.” Ghandnoosh also shares the type of policies The Sentencing Project would like to see enacted and how she hopes advocates and policymakers will use the research to uplift the need for reform.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Perhaps the question we should be asking instead is: How can we use these tools to create efficiencies and enhance our work? So rather than using a search engine to find data or content and assembling it, you can have generative AI do some of that assembly work for you. Is it grammatically correct?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Here we share how we turned traditional, time-consuming grant reporting into a faster, easier, and more efficient process. Grant reports provide a formal way for us to share how we used grant dollars, what we accomplished, and what challenges we faced. We call this our narrative report.

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The Charity CFO

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Can you imagine walking miles every morning, just to get water? We learn from John’s experience that volunteering time, receiving achievement accolades, and willing to do good in the world, sometimes are the only reasons they are done. How can we get clean water into villages?’ ‘How can we solve this problem?’ ‘How

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 10, 2024

Today, I’m excited to share that Bloomerang and Qgiv have joined together to help more nonprofits deliver their mission and create the sector’s first – and most complete – giving platform. Since Bloomerang’s beginning, we’ve worked to bring solutions to fundraisers that help them spend more time on their mission.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 19, 2023

By Jeni Putalavage-Ross , SVP of Operations at Ribbon – a platform helps nonprofits and charitable individuals start nonprofits quicker while saving time, money, and effort. Inspiration has struck and you have an amazing, world-changing idea for a public good group that you would like to make a reality.

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