Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

We are super excited that pre-ordering for the newly revised second edition of The Nonprofit Marketing Guide is now open! The book went to #1 in the nonprofit category on Amazon. The post Get the New Edition of The Nonprofit Marketing Guide [and Get a Bunch of Bonuses Too!]

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

Once you set your marketing plan in motion, you’re not done. You should periodically perform a nonprofit self-audit to see how your website, email marketing, and social media are performing. You see, marketing is a cycle of execution, analysis, and tweaking. How are your marketing activities going to help you get there?

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The Killoe Group

JUNE 13, 2023

A well-designed nonprofit marketing plan can help your organization expand its reach and boost revenue. Use these tips to step up your marketing strategy.

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NonProfit PRO

JUNE 15, 2021

Attract the right guests, engage them, and keep the buzz going long after your event.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

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. Step One: Join Our Nonprofit Marketing Guide Community and Find Your People!

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The Agitator

MARCH 6, 2012

Here’s your chance to strengthen your nonprofit fundraising results with tested strategies shared by 219 of your peers around the world. Download your free copy of The Nonprofit Marketing Wisdom Guide to capitalize on their smarts, effort and experiences for your organization.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

Being a nonprofit marketer can be an overwhelming experience. Nancy recently released The Nonprofit Marketing Wisdom Guide 2012 at GettingAttention.org which contains tested, proven strategies shared by nonprofit marketers, consultants and fundraisers from around the world.

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Getting Attention

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Here’s your chance to strengthen your nonprofit marketing results, with tested, proven strategies shared by 219 of your peers around the world: Download your free copy of The Nonprofit Marketing Wisdom Guide 2012 right now to capitalize on their smarts, effort and experiences for your organization.

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Fundraising Coach

APRIL 15, 2011

I just finished The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause [amazon affiliate link]. Whether you’re looking at mailings, printed communications, improving SEO, word-of-mouth, or social media, Kivi’s got suggestions for you and your nonprofit.

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Getting Attention

JANUARY 26, 2011

It’s your input that makes it possible for me to cover what you need to know to increase your nonprofit’s marketing impact! You were particularly generous last December, when I asked you to share your most important nonprofit marketing lesson or key principle learned — either from hard knocks or new found success — in 2010.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

We recently asked more than 50 nonprofit communicators about their top problems with their style guide or brand book. The first answer was that the style guide was outdated. The second answer was that the style guide was incomplete. Here are three recommendations to get your nonprofit style guide back on track.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

Through our All-Access Pass training program and our Communications Director Mentoring Program, I meet many nonprofit communicators in coordinator or assistant positions who want to be promoted to the manager or director level. Many of you reading this blog are the first communications director at your nonprofit.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

At Nonprofit Marketing Guide, we provide professional development for nonprofit communications staff on what we call the 10 Keys to Nonprofit Communications Success. In this 4-minute video, I walk you through the nonprofit writing certificate. Can’t see the video?

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

During our recent webinar on updating your nonprofit’s style guide for 2024, we addressed head-on how much of the debate around so-called “woke” language actually begins in the nonprofit sector. Nonprofit language influences the language that others use. White Programs v.

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Nonprofit Megaphone

APRIL 5, 2024

In the digital age, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) content writing has become a vital strategy for nonprofits to increase visibility and engagement. Yet this aspect of “new marketing” comes with its own learning curve, and related best practices are constantly changing.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

For example, AI-generated content has included Misinformation or inaccuracies Harmful bias Unvetted or unclear sources Illegal use of proprietary, copyrighted, and private information In our 2024 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report , despite these problems, we found that most nonprofits use AI.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Effective Lifecycle Email Marketing for Nonprofits (Strategies + Examples) Do you want to gain more email subscribers for your nonprofit organization and keep these supporters giving again and again? Email marketing is an effective tool for nonprofits. Generating more email signups isn’t hard at all for nonprofits.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

For those coming into the nonprofit world from corporate communications, perhaps the most perplexing realization is that most nonprofit communications teams don’t draft and manage their own budgets. The post Draft and Manage Your Nonprofit Communications Budget appeared first on Nonprofit Marketing Guide (NPMG).

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Nonprofit email marketing is still a great way for nonprofits to reach the right people with the right message at the right time. It’s a great tool especially when you connect your email engagement work to your nonprofit’s big mission goals. But nonprofit email marketing can be complicated!

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Here’s a quick preview of what we’ll be doing at Nonprofit Marketing Guide in September. September 7: Social Media Starter Kit: Best Practices for Nonprofits on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn with Kerri Karvetski. September 20: Rethinking Your Nonprofit Newsletter: Making It More Relevant for Today.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

If you haven’t had a chance to dive into the 2024 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report yet, put in your earbuds and listen to my conversation with Farra Trompeter of Big Duck on the Smart Communications podcast. You can also find a transcript of the conversation here.

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NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

When it comes to marketing, nonprofits constantly have to balance broad outreach with limited resources. In this guide, I’ll discuss four focus areas of your Google Ad Grants strategy. One way to accomplish this is by leveraging Google Ad Grants.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 15, 2016

The same lesson applies to the relationships nonprofits have with their donors. The concept of inbound marketing takes all of that knowledge and incorporates it into a real-life framework for nonprofits and businesses to use when engaging their audiences. Don’t know what inbound marketing is (or how to use it, for that matter)?

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Here are the Top 10 Blog Posts published by Nonprofit Marketing Guide in 2023 according to WordPress most viewed: Note: Several of the Nonprofit Social Media and Newsletter Ideas for each month usually do well enough to make the top 10, but seemed a little like cheating to include each one of them. Let us know!

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

A nonprofit brand and style guide is right up there with an editorial calendar as a top tool for nonprofit communications pros. Style Guide (word choices that convey voice and tone, preferred ways to say things, grammar/punctuation choices, formatting guidelines, etc.) Can’t see the video? Email Kivi.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Editorial style guide or brand book, whatever you call it, your nonprofit will benefit from written documentation about how the content you create should look and sound. The Types of Nonprofit Style Guides Cheat Sheets: Maybe you just need a simple one- or two-pager summarizing the most important points you want everyone to implement.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

If you haven’t led a nonprofit website redesign process, your time is coming! In the nonprofit sector, we often stretch that out to more like every 3-5 years. But many organizations also include rebrands or refreshes when doing a nonprofit website redesign. appeared first on Nonprofit Marketing Guide.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

If you read this blog regularly but aren’t yet in our free Nonprofit Marketing Guide community, the time to join is NOW ! The post If You Read This Blog, You Need to Get into Our Community Now appeared first on Nonprofit Marketing Guide. Here’s why.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

I am working on the slide deck for Thursday’s webinar Social Media Trends for Nonprofit Communicators in 2024 and thought I would share some of the data I am finding on how people feel about using AI to generate content. One of the themes I am seeing is that AI use will skyrocket, but that is causing social medias users to be leery.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Would the most helpful articles, posts, and tips for nonprofit marketers from the last week or so make it better? This week we’ve got how much social media managers make, how little nonprofit employees make, why it might be time for a MySpace comeback, brand and style guide examples, how to make decisions and more.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

I am here with the most helpful articles, posts, and tips for nonprofit marketers from the last week or so. This week we have the most effective social media content, a Giving Tuesday guide, tips for better blog posts, social media updates, and more. It’s time for Mixed Links… Planning a website rebuild?

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MARCH 9, 2023

Email Marketing Strategies for Nonprofit Organizations Email marketing can help any Nonprofit, Charity or NGO to engage with potential donors and to nurture previous donors. Check out these tips and get started with email marketing for your Nonprofit. One of such tools is Respona.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Our main goal at NonprofitMarketingGuide.com is to provide training and mentoring for nonprofits who have small communications staffs and budgets, but big enthusiasm and ideas. 25 Metaphors Nonprofits Can Use to Get Their Messages Across – and the Decrepit Dozen to Avoid. The First 100 Days of Your New Nonprofit Marketing Job.

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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. This is part of our larger CALM not BUSY framework for nonprofit communications pros. When does the work ebb and flow in your nonprofit? Healthy growth demands rest.

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 22, 2024

Whether you’re looking for a platform to collect fundraising data, automate marketing messages, or simply streamline giving for donors, choosing the right fundraising software is critical to your nonprofit’s ability to raise support. If you’re not sure how to start your search or what to look for , this guide is for you!

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Fundraising Coach

MARCH 6, 2024

Strong donor relationships help your nonprofit build robust supporter networks, make donors happy to support your mission, and foster lasting support. In this guide, we’ll explore three ways your nonprofit can inspire these positive feelings among donors through online fundraising. Leverage the right tools and technology.

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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. It made it clear how vital a focus on collaboration is, especially when we’re all trying to do a lot with a little in the nonprofit world.

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