For this week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, let’s take a look at several nonprofit makeovers. You might just discover a few big or little changes you could make on your own to increase your nonprofit’s effectiveness. Jono Smith at Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog shows a before-and-after of the Network for Good home page — Can…
This week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants focuses on how to reach younger generations. What do people in their teens and twenties care about? What makes them want to get involved with you? If you are curious about the answers, check out this week’s edition of the Carnival. Get Your Blog Post Highlighted Next Week Next…
I hate to do this, but I’m postponing the webinar scheduled for this Friday on how to write for the web and email. I’ve got a terrible chest cold and if I talk for more than five minutes at a time, my voice cracks like a 13-year-old boy’s and then disappears into a barely audible…
Jeff Brooks at Donor Power Blog has posted this week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants with a “scary” theme in honor of Halloween. Find out what scares some of the top bloggers on nonprofit issues. I missed the carnival deadline, but posted my own scary story this morning. Next week, the Carnival visits a new host,…
When I was a young federal employee back in the early 90’s, I was all about the process of preparation and planning. Now that I’ve been self-employed for going on a decade, I lean more toward the “just do it” camp. By necessity, lots of nonprofit communicators are there too, because they don’t have the…
Independent Sector has just released Principles for Good Governance and Ethical Practice, after three years of discussion on the best ways to encourage self-governance and self-regulation in the nonprofit sector. If you receive any foundation funding, you can bet that those funders will insist you adopt these practices and work toward their full implementation. Several…
This week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants is now up at Spare Change. Nedra has compiled a great list of case studies and resources. It’s yet another can’t-miss edition of the Carnival. Next week we travel to Donor Power Blog with host Jeff Brooks. It’s an open call, but in honor of Halloween, you get bonus…
Michele Martin at the Bamboo Project has posted this week’s edition of the Carnival. We participated in Blog Action Day on Monday and so the posts you’ll read all relate somehow to the environment. My personal fave in the group is Michele’s on how environmental groups are using social media. Check it out in the…
Feedback on the annual reports e-book I released in August has been great. Here are a few of the comments I’ve received in the last month from people who have purchased “How to Write a Nonprofit Annual Report.” “I found your book to be a tremendous help. Each year I have the challenge of producing…
One of the easiest ways that nonprofit communicators can go green in their operations is to use recycled paper all the time — in your office equipment and office supplies like folders and when you buy print. Long gone are the excuses about paper quality and, for the most part, price (or at least they…
The North Carolina Center for Nonprofits (one of the leading state nonprofit associations) has just published Principles and Practices for Nonprofit Excellence: A Self-Help Tool for Organizational Effectiveness. Several other state associations have similar guides for their members. You’ll find several communications and marketing best practices included in the NC guide and most others: —…
Yesterday I replied to the arguments made by people who want to reprint blog posts or RSS feeds in full, often without proper credit. Let me be clear: I have no problem with others excerpting or discussing my posts – I wholeheartedly encourage that. That’s part of the natural beauty of the blogosphere. My problem…
