This is definitely not your average fundraising event! See what happened when the Millionair Club Charity made a stronger effort to get out in the community to meet new people and form a wider diversity of relationships. ~Kivi Guest Post by Tim Takechi of Millionair Club Charity. In the early morning of August 11, 2013, Seattle businessman Larry Kaminer…
To help your nonprofit understand the benefits of having a mobile marketing strategy and how to implement one, we asked the good folks at The mGive Foundation to guest blog for us. Earlier, they let us know the top reasons to use mobile. Today Jenifer Snyder outlines several ways to starting building your mobile list. ~Kivi Guest…
In this year’s Nonprofit Communications Trends Survey for 2014, we are asking the questions about communications frequency a little differently. We’ve split appeals with a call to action (like “donate now”) from newsletters or other informational communications. We’ve heard from 605 nonprofits so far (our goal is 2,000), and here’s what the preliminary results tell…
We’ve talked before about how people don’t really read all of your content. Laurel Dykema is back with some tips on how to get your point across even to busy readers. ~Kivi Guest Post by Laurel Dykema of Mission India “AVALANCHE!” Twitter-ers are tweeting. Facebook-ers are posting. Pinterest-ers are pinning. Instagram-ers are picture-taking. More micro content…
Last month, we asked for your feedback on training topics for our 2014 Webinar Series. Today I’m sharing the top seven most popular webinar topics out of the list of 14 we gave you, in order, along with our plans to meet those needs. Also, congrats to three winners of All-Access Passes through the random…
We are asking for your predictions and insights this month for the 2014 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report. Please take the trends survey now. As of right now, 415 nonprofit staff have completed the survey. We are asking a new question this year: Do you feel overworked, underworked, or is your workload about right? The preliminary results…
This is the second of a two-part series by Rachel Muir, CFRE fundraising consultant, speaker and trainer, to help you deepen your donor engagement via cultivation events. Read part one here. ~Kivi Guest Post by Rachel Muir In yesterday’s post, I shared 5 questions you should ask yourself to develop a donor cultivation event: 1) What…
This is the first in a two-part series by Rachel Muir, CFRE fundraising consultant, speaker and trainer, to help you deepen your donors’ engagement to your mission via donor cultivation events. ~Kivi Guest Post by Rachel Muir Successful major gift fundraising demands a strategic cultivation plan and goal for each donor in your portfolio. I…
It’s Worksheet Wednesday . . . sort of. This week, I don’t have a completed worksheet for you. Instead, I want your help making a new one. I get this question all the time: How much can one communications person at a nonprofit really be expected to do? I tried to answer it right about…
One of the biggest challenges for nonprofit marketers and fundraisers is producing all of the content you need to do your job well. Everywhere you look on your to-do list is something new that you need to write – direct mail, emails, newsletters, your website, social media, blog posts, advertising, proposals . . . it…
We’ve just opened up the survey for the 2014 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report. Please take it now! Last year more than 1,500 nonprofits participated and we hope to make that more than 2,000 this time. If you take the survey, you’ll be the first to get the full free report in early January. We ask…
Happy Friday! Let’s chase all that Halloween candy with some Mixed Links… A few weeks ago, we shared the giving habits of Canadians versus Americans to shed some light on the differences (and similarities) between the two countries. This new infographic reviews the differences between Canadian and American media consumption habits. The end of the year will…
