Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 23, 2019

The 2019 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report found that the most successful nonprofit communicators were putting significantly more emphasis on content marketing than less effective organizations. Clearly, nonprofits have some work to do to embrace content marketing fully and to get the most out of this strategy.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 16, 2024

If fulfilling your mission and being identified as an employer of choice are priorities for your nonprofit, invest in employee professional development. This guide outlines four tips for nonprofits of all sizes and levels of sophistication to improve their professional development programs. Encourage participation in your program.

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Nonprofit Fixer

AUGUST 15, 2023

After 30 years in nonprofit leadership, I’ve come to believe that there is one key skill that can boost your personal and professional success. Even though we don’t talk about it much in the nonprofit sector, fundraisers also require an entrepreneurial mindset. This requires prioritization, management, and dependability.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 7, 2024

Some years ago, we participated in an activity aimed at raising awareness of gender bias among hiring managers. Thirty people attended, including managers and members of an academic gender committee we were on. Innovation thus becomes a powerful tool driven by the intellectual participation of women from diverse contexts.

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Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 1, 2024

Understanding the giving habits and motivations of your millennial audience will give you a leg up in the fundraising space. Nonprofits need to take an informed approach to appealing to them and beginning to cultivate a relationship toward a “lifetime donor.” Secure their support by maintaining transparency.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2021

By Audrey Phillips , a customer success manager at Classy – a social enterprise that creates world-class online fundraising software for nonprofits, modernizing the giving experience to accelerate social impact around the world. Explain your motivation. Email #1: Introduce the Campaign. Provide all of the details.

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NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 5, 2023

“From Owing to Owning,” reads a sign at the entrance of Plaza 122, a 29,000-square-foot strip mall near the corner of SE 122nd Avenue and SE Market Street in Portland, OR. The complex is modest, but it houses an estimated 27 primarily immigrant-led small businesses and nonprofits. Paul, New Orleans, Anchorage, and Los Angeles.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2021

By Emily Rose Patz , Senior Copywriter at DonorPerfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. That’s because a digital strategy can truly transform every aspect of your organization’s work – from marketing to events. After all, your nonprofit work shares that same purpose.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2012

As I’ve been writing my new book on content marketing for nonprofits, I’ve tried to keep in mind the different stages that nonprofits go through as their communications and marketing programs mature. When asked to identify their target audience, they’ll usually respond with “the general public” or “everyone.”

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Fundraising Coach

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Volunteers are key to helping nonprofits stay up and running. From donating their time to help out with vital programs and initiatives to lending their professional expertise and skills, volunteers help keep nonprofits on track to complete their goals. Invest in volunteer management software. Make the experience engaging.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2023

As a nonprofit professional, you know how important hosting fundraising events is to both expanding your donor base and retaining existing donors. By giving supporters a way to connect with other like-minded supporters and your nonprofit’s staff, you can facilitate community and deep relationships at these events.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 24, 2020

There’s strong competition among nonprofit organizations when it comes to fundraising in the U.S. million tax-exempt nonprofit organizations , and many have to compete for the attention of the public and donations. This proactive approach is often used in infomercials, motivating the audience to buy products again.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

If you loved our 2018 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar get ready for our new, improved, and updated 2019 calendar! We've searched far and wide for the best and brightest nonprofit conferences from all around the country! Nonprofit Management. Marketing & Communications. Marketing & Communications.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

JUNE 19, 2023

A growing number of young people are looking at alternatives to college and learning about the exciting world of online business ideas as a result of increasing tuition expenses and changes in the labor market. They may get up useful skills and industry-specific information, which increases their marketability for jobs.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 5, 2024

Over the past 30 years, it has made substantial improvements in the living conditions and social status of people with disabilities due to rapid economic growth, administrative and legislative actions, and the dedicated efforts of nonprofit organizations that champion the disability community.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 19, 2022

As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you have the power to turn the winter season into an opportunity to engage your supporters with a peer-to-peer fundraiser! These peer-to-peer fundraising ideas require participants to make personal fundraising pages to share with family and friends based on your campaign’s main fundraising page.

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Bloomerang

MAY 10, 2022

Every member of your nonprofit team already knows how to build strong relationships with friends, co-workers, family members, significant others, and more. Donor stewardship—also known as stewarding your donors—is the act of building relationships with supporters after they make a donation to your nonprofit. What is donor stewardship?

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

APRIL 27, 2023

In contrast, a 2017 report found that only 5 percent of nonprofits were using artificial intelligence, and only 28 percent of nonprofits were using data for predictive or prescriptive purposes. The public sector isn’t much different. In the private sector, market forces drive investment in data to stay competitive.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

This might involve gaining a knowledge of the emotional triggers that lead to people donating money or signing up to volunteer for a nonprofit organization. The search behaviors of your audience will change as social challenges and public interests continue to develop over time.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

The Nonprofit Content Marketing Cookbook: Your Guide to Creating and Curating Content that Educates, Motivates and Inspires will be released later this month. This e-book brings together in one place all of the thinking, teaching, and writing I’ve been doing over the last two years on nonprofit content marketing.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

AUGUST 7, 2023

Tina James​ Senior Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility, Florida Blue Tina James, the senior manager of corporate social responsibility at Florida Blue, is one of 20 outstanding professionals of color selected to participate in the Nonprofit Leadership Center’s 2023 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 27, 2022

These establish motivation from the main character’s original identity. This can be internal (private meaning) or external (public reputation). If the goal isn’t easy to visualize, it won’t be motivating. So, it won’t motivate a gift. A gift must first be motivated by simple, social-emotional story.

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Ann Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

During this period of social distancing, it’s been especially hard for nonprofits like yours to communicate and feel connected to your donors. Luckily, the pandemic brought about more effective technology, providing your nonprofit with new ways of doing things, and you can leverage these tools in your virtual donor appreciation efforts.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 20, 2022

These establish motivation from the main character’s original identity. Without this, even a catastrophic threat won’t motivate action. To motivate dramatic action, the problem must be disruptive. Otherwise, it won’t motivate action. The narrative arc. Story moves through a narrative arc. The inciting incident.

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iMarketSmart

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It provides motivation. Examples include, “Would you be willing to consider including us as one of the nonprofit organizations in your will?”[18] We’ll be announcing our board participation at the banquet. The motivation isn’t about death. 52] It tested 24 bequest gift descriptions among nearly 10,000 participants.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JUNE 7, 2017

Making a little progress every day is really important to staying motivated and happy in your work. But when you feel like you are getting pulled in a hundred different directions, as many nonprofit communicators are, that can be tough. Actively Manage Your Decision Points. ” Here are 5 I like.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 1, 2017

But wait—should you really be starting a nonprofit? An L3C is a variation of a limited liability company (LLC), which is a private organization where the owners actively participate in management and don’t face personal liability for the organization’s debts and obligations. Can I start an L3C?

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iMarketSmart

APRIL 10, 2023

If a donor wants a publication, newsletter, or event details, that’s easy.[55] Footnotes : [1] This enhanced identity can be either private (meaning) or public (reputation). But it dramatically decreased the morality rating of nonprofit organizations. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 44 (5), 869-885. [13]

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iMarketSmart

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

2] It might be external, public, and commercial. In fundraising, story works to motivate the donor. Marketing Letters, 30 (1), 75-90. Be comprehensible and recognisable, as well as useful to the actors – fundraisers, philanthropists, advisers and (in the case of fundraisers) their managers and leaders; and. Story works.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

AUGUST 27, 2023

Harnessing the Power of Microsoft Dynamics Consultant in AI Marketing Discover how to leverage expertise for effective strategies. The rapid development of AI has changed the face of marketing, allowing companies to forge more meaningful relationships with their clientele. Ready to elevate your business?

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iMarketSmart

JULY 17, 2023

Givers benefit from their enhanced public reputation. Givers get no benefit from their public reputation. One experiment used a public radio station pledge drive.[12] Adding this phrase, “Did you know that other participants gave £5 and they said that participants such as yourself should give £5?”[27]

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

By understanding core motivations, intentions, perspectives reflected in this webinar, you will be able to build a stronger case for support, increase the impact you have, and gain strategies for creating and preserving community. I have been in the nonprofit space for about 15 years now and … There we go. There’s my bio.

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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.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As a non-profit marketing and development professional, I have spent my career figuring out how to cut through the noise of a crowded marketing space. In doing so, my job is to write and design to connect and motivate my audience: be it to volunteer, donate, sign a petition, engage, et cetera. Effective Marketing.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

JUNE 20, 2023

The reasons range from inertia (“we’ve always done it this way”) to questionable motivations (perhaps that employee wellness program isn't actually designed with employee wellness as its primary goal). We publicize our salaries in job listings, of course. Often, culture is simply neglected.

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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. A motivating flyer could inspire dozens of people to volunteer for your new program, and a per­suasive letter to a senator might inspire new legislation.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 26, 2023

“UNABLE TO INTERVENE” 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.” The most important thing about the concept of wealth extraction for me is intentionality…This isn’t a market inefficiency.

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