Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Welcome to the Home of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants!

About This Carnival

This carnival is a collection of the best advice and resources that consultants, support organizations, and nonprofits themselves are offering to the nonprofit community through their blogs. It publishes on the 1st and 15th of each month (or next business day) and rotates around to different blogs called “hosts.” Kivi Leroux Miller of Nonprofit Communications (this blog) is the founder and coordinator of the Carnival.

Reading the Carnival

We use BlogCarnival.com to manage our editions. See the tabs in the right-hand column to read past editions and to see who is hosting the carnival in the coming weeks. If you want to be notified automatically when a new edition has been posted, subscribe to the carnival in the subscription box in the right-hand column below the BlogCarnival widget.

Submission Guidelines

Would you like your blog to be included in this carnival? Write your blog as usual and pick your best post of the week, if there is no special theme that week. Otherwise, submit a recent post that addresses the theme. Go to BlogCarnival.com to submit your post using the form there or send an email to npc.carnival AT yahoo DOT com with your name, your blog’s name and the URL of the post (not your blog homepage). The deadline  varies, but is generally 48 hours before the publication date (1st and 15th of the month, or next business day). The edition’s host will pick the 5-10 blog posts he or she wishes to highlight.

If you want to be notified about weekly deadlines, themes, etc., sign up for our contributors’ mailing list.

The “Big Top” Blogroll

The Big Top Blogroll is our list of bloggers who have hosted the Carnival at least twice in the last year. If you’d like to add this blogroll to your site, here’s how.

If you use PHP or another “include” method to add raw HTML into your blog, use this URL, which returns the blogroll as HTML. Or go here to export the list as OPML.

As Kivi updates the blogroll, it will be automatically updated on your site as well.

Hosting the Carnival

If you are interested in hosting, please check the BlogCarnival schedule and then let Kivi know which upcoming open date you’d like. A few weeks before your edition is due, you’ll need to post any theme for your week on your site, along with any other special directions you want to give bloggers. You’ll be given the password for the yahoo account to collect the submissions.

Keeping in Touch

If you’d like to get weekly reminders about the deadlines, themes, etc., sign up for our contributors’ mailing list

Help Promote the Carnival - Use Our Badge

Naturally, we highly recommend that you include the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants in your blogroll. Link to http://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/blog/carnival-of-nonprofit-consultants/

Even better, include the carnival logo on your site.