Meet Kivi Leroux Miller
What I Know, I’ve Learned As a . . .
Do-It-Yourself Nonprofit Marketer. As a staff member, volunteer, board member, and consultant, I’ve helped dozens of nonprofits large and small, community-based and nationwide, to get the word out about their work; recruit new members, donors, and volunteers; and develop creative strategies that worked, all on limited financial and staffing resources. I wouldn’t know what to do with a million dollar budget. I’m used to working in the four and five-figure ranges.
Writer and Trainer. I’m really good at taking loads of information and boiling it down into the essentials, whether it’s creating a two-page white paper out of mountains of research or writing a short, inspirational donor profile based on a rambling hour-long interview. I’ve used these same skills to create highly rated webinars, in-person workshops, and e-books that nonprofits in all 50 states and more than two dozen countries have used to improve their own communications.
Grantmaker and Grantseeker. In positions as a federal agency grant manager and foundation project director, I oversaw the distribution of millions of dollars in grants to nonprofits. As a nonprofit project director, volunteer board member, and consultant, I’ve also written scores of successful grant applications. I understand what it’s like to be on both sides of the proposal.
Board Member. I’ve served as board president, vice president, treasurer, secretary, and regular ol’ board member for several different nonprofit organizations. (I’m currently on the board of Positive Wellness Alliance and Lillian’s List.) I appreciate the big picture and the minutiae of running successful nonprofit organizations.
Entrepreneur. I started my own business in 1998 and have managed all aspects of it — I not only deliver services to my clients, but I’m my own IT director, bookkeeper, advertising director, and HR manager. Running a small business is a lot like running a small nonprofit. You learn how to do lots of new things, discover what you can do yourself and what you really need to hire out, and, hopefully, love showing up for work everyday.
Looking for the Typical Bio? Here You Go . . .
Kivi Leroux Miller is president of Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com and EcoScribe Communications, and the author of “The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause” (available May 2010, Jossey-Bass).
Through training, coaching and consulting, she helps small nonprofits and communications departments of one make a big impression with smart, savvy marketing and communications. She teaches a weekly webinar series and writes a leading blog on nonprofit communications at Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com. She also presents highly rated in-person workshops on a variety of nonprofit marketing topics around the country and through Duke University’s certificate program in nonprofit management. More than 2,000 nonprofits in 50 states, across Canada, and in more than two dozen countries have participated in Kivi’s webinars.
Kivi enjoys writing, hiking, volunteering, vegetarian cooking, and teaching her kids how to bake. After many years in the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington, D.C., she now lives in rural North Carolina with her husband, two young daughters, three cats, a dog and countless backyard wildlife.
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More from Kivi Leroux Miller
Please visit the following websites to learn more about nonprofit communications and the work I do.
NonprofitMarketingGuide.com Weekly webinar series, on-demand e-courses, free articles and more.
NonprofitAnnualReports.net Everything you need to know about writing nonprofit annual reports.
NonprofitNewsletters.net Everything you need to know about writing nonprofit newsletters.
EcoScribe.com About my consulting business.
Writing911.com Free advice, tip sheets, and e-courses on a variety of writing topics.
NewsletterWritingTips.com More tips on newsletter writing.
WritingforNonprofits.com My other blog on freelance writing.
