By Guest Blogger Claire Voyant If you’re a later baby boomer, maybe you remember “The Archies†singing their animated hearts out during the Saturday morning cartoons. “Sugar, Sugar . . . ah, honey, honey. You are my candy girl . . . †Now that you’re a grown-up, working in the wonderful world of nonprofits,…
Rob Blizard A good friend of mine, Rob Blizard, has written an interesting article (pdf) for the Planned Giving Today newsletter on the effectiveness of online tactics like web pages and email in marketing planned giving to nonprofit donors. If you aren’t hip to the development lingo, planned giving refers to gifts often associated with…
“Do we really have to include the letter from the executive director/CEO/president in our newsletter?” “Do we really have to include an executive message in our annual report?” Nonprofit staff ask me these questions with the same look on their faces that a child has when she asks, “Do I really have to eat this…
The Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants for this week is now up at Solidariti. You’ll find some great posts on marketing, technology, fundraising, and more. Priscilla says she received more great entries than she could include (we keep the Carnival to seven posts to increase the likelihood that you’ll have time to read them all). Thanks…
I recently asked this question in a different way on the Nonprofit section of LinkedIn Answers. The sum advice from all the responses was this: Keep it short. Focus on accomplishments. Thank your supporters. My annual reports e-book tells you everything you need to know to write a traditional nonprofit annual report, whether it’s 8…
As you know, I’m hosting a webinar this week with search engine optimization (SEO) expert David Westbrook. It’s going to be full of great tips on how to do your keyword research and search engine optimization, which is really essential if you expect your website to produce new supporters. David will speak in plain English,…
By Guest Blogger Claire Voyant Storytelling. As marketing and PR professionals, we know storytelling works, but sometimes it’s hard to convey that to our clients (you nonprofits out there). After all, our clients are serious people doing serious work. Just the word sounds a little “light” doesn’t it? Storytelling. Like a group of children sitting…
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You’ll find this week’s edition of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants at Donor Power Blog. Jeff asked for posts related to “in like a lion” in honor of March finally arriving. See what he came up with. Next week the Carnival moves to the Southern Hemisphere with Priscilla at Solidariti. If you are new to…
Beth Kanter has a great fictional example on her blog today about a nonprofit called “Seagulls Global Internship International” that works with students. Those students have turned against the nonprofit by creating a Facebook group to criticize the new organizational logo. Beth asks, what would you do if you were the social networking manager? Would…
Next Thursday’s Nonprofit Marketing Guide webinar is on keywords and search engine optimization (SEO) for nonprofits and will feature guest speaker David Westbrook, an SEO expert with lots of nonprofit experience. If you just crinkled your nose and said, “Huh?” or if you are your office’s accidental techie and default webmaster, this webinar is for…
I’m working on a new webinar for later this spring currently titled “Nonprofit Writing Sucks – How to Write Like the Smart, Passionate Human Being You Are Instead of the Wonky, Dead-Inside Droid You Sound Like Now. ” Yes, I agree, the title needs some work, but you get the gist. I’ve been collecting examples…
