Wouldn’t you like to more easily find content related to the work of nonprofit communications professionals on Twitter, Instagram, and other hashtag-friendly places? Let’s make it so! Please start using the hashtag #npcomm when you are talking about your work in a professional capacity and want other nonprofit communications pros to see it. Have a…
OK, I don’t really know what I am calling this thing. Smackdown Match-Up Head-to-Head Compare & Contrast Side-by-Side Something along those lines. Whatever we end up calling it, we are planning a series of blog posts and tip sheets that look at the communications of two national nonprofits working in the same space. Where are…
Need some new ideas for your newsletter, blog, or social media? Consider one of these five summer-inspired themes: 1) Summer Heat. How does hot weather impact your services or your clients? Can you offer advice to your readers about anything related to summer heat? Humane societies can offer tips for keeping pets cool. Agencies that address…
In mid-March, I started following 22 national nonprofits online with a fresh new email address and social media accounts. I selected them in pairs — two working on hunger, two international child sponsorship groups, two presidential foundations, etc. (Find the full list here.) It’s no surprise that advocacy organizations like the Humane Society and NARAL…
Is podcasting making a big comeback? It seems like every year, I read an article saying Yes. Despite all the interest in more visual content, there’s something very compelling about rich audio content that doesn’t require you to stare directly at it or to hold it in your hands. Pop in some earbuds or use…
I’ve encouraged an open conversation about the long-term impact of this year’s Give Local America Day fiasco, including inviting guest commentary. Jay Love, CEO of Bloomerang, took me up on the offer with today’s post. ~Kivi Online days of giving like Giving Tuesday, Brackets for Good, and Give Local America have become wonderful fundraising tools for…
I’m thinking about hiring interns or apprentices here at Nonprofit Marketing Guide to help with some evolving ideas. But I’m not sure which, or what it would look like exactly, so I would love some feedback. For a variety of reasons, I don’t want another regular employee, at least right now. Nor do I want…
Many nonprofit communications directors feel like they work in a constant state of chaos. You likely feel overwhelmed and understaffed. Odds are you don’t have enough time to think or plan, so you just do, do, do. And the to-dos don’t stop coming. Your desk is the dumping ground for every good idea in the…
Our team is working on the creation of a new guide on nonprofit storybanking and photobanking. You get great stories and photos, but how do you organize them? How do you find what you need months later? How do you give the right people access? When does the content “expire” and should it be deleted? What…
We talk a lot about storytelling in the nonprofit sector: how stories build through their first, second, and third acts and how all story arcs need beginnings, middles, and ends. When I do storytelling training, I compare the stories that nonprofits tell to a TV series. You have the short-lived, episodic stories that start and…
Yesterday, May 3, was Give Local America Day. In many of the 50+ communities that participated, today — May 4 — is now also Give Local America Day. That’s because Kimbia’s giving platform crashed for most of yesterday, so they had to extend the campaign into today. Kimbia is going to have hell to pay…
Here at Nonprofit Marketing Guide, we survey communications and fundraising staff all the time. So it’s interesting for me to hear what staff who aren’t directly responsible for those functions have to say about nonprofit marketing. Marc Pitman of the Concord Leadership Group recently surveyed over 1,000 nonprofit leaders, 60% of whom are executive directors…
