NonProfit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

She adds, “Art has the ability to make the unimaginable imaginable, the unthinkable thinkable and the unknown known.” “There’s no such thing as an island. You can’t build a wall and hope things stay on one side of the wall.” But awareness is only the first step.

Environmental 103

Environmental Food Insurance Homelessness 103

NonProfit Hub

MAY 13, 2019

When the unthinkable happens, be sure to exhaust all of these resources before you throw in the towel. They want you to stick around, so they might feel most compelled to give. So, shamelessly ask for help. If they say no, you’re right back where you were—no harm, no foul.

Finance 69

Finance Foundations Production Nonprofits 69

NonProfit Quarterly

MAY 4, 2023

However, moving away is unthinkable for some Salmora residents, who want to maintain their traditional livelihoods. Every year after a flood, dozens of communities migrate elsewhere. Most of Hazarika’s neighbors have stopped making pottery and have migrated to cities in search of better opportunities.

Agriculture 91

Agriculture Public and Social Policy Governance Construction 91

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Highlight your successes, what unthinkable thing might happen if support slips, or the big hairy goal that requires everyone to be all in to achieve. Stories are the heart of your campaign, so put some serious thinking into which stories you’ll use for your appeals. They should give donors the feels and inspire them to give.

Fundraising 86

Fundraising Fundraising Recruitment Advertising 86

Sea Change Strategies

JUNE 17, 2013

I have high cholesterol and about 5 weeks ago I did what I once thought unthinkable. I cut dairy and meat from my diet. That must be tough, you might say. But the truth is, it hasn’t been so bad. There are actually tons of dairy and meat substitutes that are pretty tasty and have made the leap quite easy.

Non-Profits 45

Non-Profits Marketing Marketing Leadership 45

Stanford Social Innovation Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

” In July, after over a decade of operation in Nicaragua (and an unwavering commitment to the organization I founded), I found myself uttering this unthinkable phrase at a board meeting. . “Maybe we should dissolve.” In an already unstable economic climate, the ground beneath our organization had crumbled beneath us.

Civil Society 103

Civil Society Governance Public and Social Policy Nonprofit Administration and Development 103

NonProfit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It’s possible art can do the unthinkable, reach the unreachable. But it’s possible art can do the unthinkable, reach the unreachable. You are removing yourself from the world, which is unbearably and relentlessly hard. You are disappearing into a new world where you can be safe because you make the rules there.

Children 102

Children Governance Technology Culture 102

Fundraising Coach

JULY 27, 2016

In this day and age, it’s almost unthinkable to promote anything without at least considering social media. How to know you’re ready for the next step: Have you secured at least one sponsor for your event? If so, you’re good to go — to start promoting your event! Step 5: Promote your fundraiser online and offline. But that’s okay.

Fundraising 72

Fundraising Fundraising Altruism and Helping Charitable Contribution 72

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 16, 2023

Jay Acunzo of the Unthinkable podcast says that creativity is about resourcefulness not resources. Think about what your audience really needs and wants to hear from you – what would add value to their busy lives? You may be thinking, Julia, I work for a small nonprofit and I am a department of one. Scrappy content is king! .

Public and Nonprofit Management 52

Public and Nonprofit Management Culture Marketing Marketing 52

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 26, 2016

Here are five key facts from this year’s study that would have been unthinkable just ten years ago: Overall, 13% of online gifts were made from mobile devices – a number that likely reflects both user preference and increasing adoption of mobile optimization best practices by nonprofits.

Advertising 41

Advertising Retention Marketing Marketing 41

NonProfit Quarterly

MARCH 5, 2024

This is a movement that moved a once unthinkable demand to one with mainstream public support in a remarkably short amount of time. In narrative change, we can support efforts to shape the dialogue and discussion of public issues in a way that begins to move the frame of how people understand key issues in society.

Philanthropy 109

Philanthropy Public and Social Policy Foundations Ethics 109

Stanford Social Innovation Review

MARCH 7, 2023

In the 2000s, a once unthinkable era of collaboration between the philanthropic, private, and public sectors took flight under the auspices of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), which saved millions of lives in Sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere around the globe.

Philanthropy 100

Philanthropy Culture Collaborations Education 100

Blue Avocado

JANUARY 2, 2024

While insiders focus on what’s practical and achievable, social movements ‘change the political weather’; they make the previously unthinkable first thinkable and then conventional wisdom.” Accordingly, a new generation of philanthropists, such as oil heiress Leah Hunt-Hendrix, are pledging their support to grass roots activism.

Universities 52

Universities Law Foundations Nonprofits 52