NonProfit Leadership Alliance

MARCH 22, 2023

Written by: Doug Scott Reading Time: 5 minutes Nonprofit video stories have the power to evoke an emotional response in prospective donors and compel them to act on behalf of your cause. Let’s get started! The most effective nonprofit videos tell stories in a way that photos and written words simply can’t mimic. Problem-solve.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MAY 7, 2024

Let us walk you through the concept of digital infrastructure, the main benefits that follow the implementation of best practices, and most importantly, maximizing your return on investment. Let’s get started! Equipment like servers, storage drives, computers, routers, and switches are just a few examples.

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Selfish Giving

JUNE 21, 2023

The negative side is when you start to dabble around and skirt the edges of what you want to be known for, or even straddle both sides, which is what one might accuse AB [Anheuser-Busch] of. "The How one nonprofit newsjacked the new Little Mermaid ??‍ It's too risky not to be. Now is not the time to be dabbling in gray areas.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

What do you mean I am not the main character? OK, Main Character Syndrome may not be an actual mental health diagnosis (for now), but most of us have that one friend who thinks the world revolves around them and they deserve all the credit and attention. It’s the same for nonprofit storytelling. Will everything work out?

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Building influence and driving change in an organization can be a challenging task, particularly for those without formal authority. As social change leaders, you are responsible for fostering a culture of growth and development within the organization, ensuring that employees have the necessary skills to drive the organization forward.

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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. Starting a Nonprofit: Basic FAQs What is a nonprofit?

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

Storytelling should be a priority at your nonprofit. It’s one of the seven writing styles that all nonprofit communicators should master. What Makes a Good Nonprofit Story? For example, a “founding” story is a purposeful nonprofit story. Need more inspiration to get started?

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Candid

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Once you’ve established a new nonprofit , one of your first considerations will likely be fundraising. In this guide, we’ll walk through four essential steps to build an operating budget for your new nonprofit. Since you’ve already identified many of your organization’s expenses, start by outlining and categorizing those costs.

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Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 22, 2017

12, about 900,000 sponsored wreaths were placed on the graves of veterans by a nonprofit called Wreaths Across America. Every wreath was purchased from the for-profit wreath company that created both the nonprofit and the annual event." I couldn't say enough good things about them. WAA's payroll is less than $400,000.

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Jeff Brooks

APRIL 9, 2024

Don’t pile up phrases before the main clause. This is a great start for effective writing that engages donors and helps motivate them to action. It’s light on how-to-write material, but has a ton of foot-noted background information — the kind of stuff bosses sometimes listen to. But you should have a copy on hand.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2024

If your nonprofit’s team is facing fundraising burnout , you’re likely looking for low-lift fundraising opportunities that don’t require as much time or effort to secure necessary funding. In this guide, we’ll explore how nonprofit endowments work and what steps to take to start fueling your long-term fundraising success.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JUNE 21, 2023

the community development financial institution where I work, lends to families and businesses throughout the state of Maine. Image Credit: Ketut Subiyanto on pixels.com The need for childcare is well known. So too are the costs of not having childcare. What can be done to address this gap? Recruiting a cohort is tricky.

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Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I’m writing this post in Kansas City where I presented at the Philanthropy Midwest Conference on How Mobile is Changing Nonprofit Fundraising and Marketing. I put a lot of work into this presentation, as I really wanted to share some useful advice with my listeners on how to get started with mobile. Mobile starts with you.

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Candid

DECEMBER 14, 2023

There’s a sentence that every communications professional at a nonprofit has heard (and if you’re like me, dreads): “We need a toolkit for that launch.” Why it doesn’t work In nonprofits, marketing, communications, and fundraising functions often overlap. What were we doing wrong? So why were we expecting our partners to do so?

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Selfish Giving

JUNE 7, 2023

I started by researching woodchucks and learning everything I could about them. This week, I have another animal story for you that offers a few lessons about corporate partnerships. Most of you know that I'm an AVID gardener. I'm even experimenting with a vegetable garden this year.??? My first one! Deer can wipe out a garden in one night!

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NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 21, 2024

Practitioners are starting to listen to the “historically ignored knowledge of survivors, youth, frontline defenders, and those with lived climate-related experiences to understand better how to provide a fully encompassing environmental and mental health—or environ(mental)—approach that includes climate, social, and cultural justice.”

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

APRIL 30, 2024

Instead, the AI summarize tool determines important points in a text first, comprehends the main idea behind them, and conserves them to create abstract summaries. Moreover, short human attention spans have significantly reduced website visitors’ dwell time. The summarizing tool can be a great assistance to you in this regard.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Your website is one of the most important tools your nonprofit has at its disposal. However, not all nonprofits use their websites to their fullest potential. It explains your nonprofit’s purpose in a concise, compelling way that encourages people with similar values to get involved. they’d like to engage with your nonprofit.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 1, 2024

If you’re starting a new nonprofit, you already know that you need to raise money. No two nonprofits are exactly alike. As a new nonprofit, you don’t have these benefits. You can start with a clean slate and build the fundraising plan you want. In the beginning you may self-fund your fledgling organization.

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The Charity CFO

APRIL 26, 2024

That’s why it’s so important to know what to look for in a nonprofit accountant. The next step is to ask your potential nonprofit accountant a few questions to see if they’d be a good fit for your organization. Here are seven questions to ask a nonprofit accountant before working with them.

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iMarketSmart

JUNE 13, 2022

When the donor either is or identifies with the main character. Backstory shows the main character’s original identity. This shows the main character’s challenge. These show the main character’s victory and altered (or enhanced) identity. But the story doesn’t start at the ask. Many stories can be good stories.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

But would it help you to know that all people who produce content for a living, whether they are writers, musicians, artists, or nonprofit communicators repurpose their content? You can repurpose a top 10 list you published in your email newsletter as a starting point for a video script. Simply start the article in a whole new way.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JULY 5, 2023

If so, then you are likely a nonprofit thought leader! Nonprofit Expert + Marketing = Nonprofit Thought Leader Marketing is the main difference between experts and thought leaders. And you don’t have to work for a big national nonprofit. People trust their local nonprofits’ expertise!

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The Charity CFO

JANUARY 22, 2024

The nonprofit exists today to provide a central network for America’s Heroes to find volunteers willing to board their pets during times of service or hardship. Doing, Owning, Growing It It may come as a surprise in 2023, however when starting a platform in 2011 a lot has changed since then.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

If you’re looking to collect feedback from your constituents, you may want to consider holding a nonprofit focus group. What’s the point of a nonprofit focus group and when should you hold one? Although there are many benefits to holding a nonprofit focus group, the main goal is to collect specific data from a certain group of people.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

APRIL 23, 2024

It describes their main features and gives you tips on how to use them in your daily life as a student. Luckily, technology has a lot of tools that can help students organize their plans, get more done, and feel less stressed about being a student. This piece talks about different types of tech tools that can help you manage your time.

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Candid

AUGUST 9, 2023

To college students, it might mean the start of a new year of knowledge and self-discovery. Louis recently used Candid’s data to explore the link between nonprofit mission statements and fundraising efforts. Brad uses Candid data to better understand the scope and scale of religious organizations in the nonprofit sector.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Donor plants jump up at your gala’s auction , raise their hand high, and start, or advance, the bidding. This person may or may not have prior affiliation with your nonprofit. The context around donor plants Galas, either online or in-person, often feature a charity auction as the main event. More on this in a bit.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MARCH 10, 2023

How to Start with Nonprofit Influencer Marketing in 2023 Want to make good use of the power of influencer marketing to promote your nonprofit, charity or social enterprise? Check out these tips by Lilian Sue. How does influencer marketing fit in the larger picture on marketing strategy for non-profits?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 4, 2022

Nonprofit fundraising had been due an upgrade to catapult it into the modern era for a while. Innovation was a “need right now” rather than a “maybe later,” and nonprofits were forced to join the twenty-first century — breeding all kinds of virtual solutions. That brings us to the state of nonprofit fundraising today.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 7, 2024

By Luz María Velázquez & Patricia Torres We are Lumi and Paty. Our stories are different, but they have similarities. We both have worked across a variety of disciplines, including teaching, ethics, economics, architecture, and design. And although we belong to different generations, we share a culture and experiences as Mexican women.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Wait until after their grant consideration window has passed and then reach out to start an introduction. Maine Health Access Foundation. According to The World Health Organization , of the 1 billion people around the world currently experiencing a mental disorder, more than 80% are without any form of quality, affordable care.

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Bloomerang

JULY 10, 2021

For these nonprofits, the pandemic brought about simultaneous surges in both support and need for their services—an exciting but certainly unprecedented and potentially stressful challenge. We’ll make our case and explain an alternative approach below, but first, let’s start with the fundamentals. What is a feasibility study?

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 19, 2024

Many nonprofit professionals first interact with grants by helping write a grant proposal. Grant writing is a fairly universal, shared activity among nonprofits. Grant writing is a fairly universal, shared activity among nonprofits. You want to start a grant writing side hustle as a freelancer. What is your skill level?

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

Start With the Basics: Platform, Domain Name, and Site Map The first thing you need to do in building your non-profit website is choose a platform. Start With the Basics: Platform, Domain Name, and Site Map The first thing you need to do in building your non-profit website is choose a platform. You just drag-and-drop.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

MARCH 2, 2023

If you are still trying to figure out where to start? The main thing here is to get only up-to-date information from the seller. This is all you need to start a transaction. 12 Tips for Managing a Successful eCommerce Store. Competing in e-commerce is not easy today due to the competitive market situation globally.

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Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

APRIL 23, 2024

While some utilize it to build aesthetically pleasing and functional websites , others can use it to showcase specific parts of their business and treat it as an extension of their main website. 6 Ways WordPress Can Catapult Your Business Growth to New Heights WordPress is a popular CMS among growing businesses and for good reason.

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