This week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants is back at its birthplace here at Nonprofit Communications. Our topic this week is Nonprofit Newsletters and we have lots of opinions to share about what works and what doesn’t. If you are responsible for your newsletter, read on. If someone else in the office does it, forward this…
Including personal profiles in your newsletter is great way to tell an important story about your organization, while also recognizing the contributions of a single person. I write a lot of donor profiles, for example, that tell nice stories about the individuals and acknowledge their generosity, while highlighting the organization’s accomplishments — i.e. “Jane Donor…
Nedra at Spare Change has posted this week’s edition of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants with the week’s best posts on social marketing. It includes several posts on creative ways to get your audience’s attention and to make your messages more lasting. I’m hosting the Carnival here next week and the theme is “Newsletters.” What…
This week’s edition of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants was about getting your message through the clutter. I just came upon another creative example of how a nonprofit is getting its issue in front off its audience – in this case, state legislators. The Community Reinvestment Association of North Carolina distributed a 2007 wall calendar…
This week’s edition of the Carnival is up at Getting Attention and Nancy has compiled a fabulous list of posts that address these questions: How do nonprofit communicators engage audiences who are saturated by marketing messages and images? And how do we compete with for-profits who bring more resources to the table? She’s got more…
There is no such thing as the “general public” in nonprofit communications, and especially in fundraising. From the core of your message to how you deliver it, your communications need to target specific people or at least specific groups of people. But if developing a targeted communications plan is a new concept for you, knowing…
This week Carnival-goers should skip on over to Donor Power Blog where Jeff Brooks has assembled an edition with advice and commentary on charity rating services, motivating your audiences, the impact of corporate funding, making cause-related marketing work, connecting with donors in meaningful ways, how people learn, and annual reports — All good stuff. Next…
In December 2006, I taught a “Blogging for Nonprofits” workshop as part of Duke University’s certificate program in nonprofit management. You can access the course materials here: Kivi’s “Blogging for Nonprofits” Course. Here is the course outline. Blogging Basics What is a Blog? Blogging Lingo How Blogs are Different from Other Online Tools How Nonprofits…
Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention is asking nonprofits to complete a very quick survey on their communications/marketing challenges for 2007. I’m looking forward to Nancy’s report on the results, so I encourage you to share your insights and experiences in the survey.
This week’s edition of the Carnival appears at Data-Scribe’s blog. Leila has highlighted posts on donor relations, starting a nonprofit blog, and more. On Monday we’ll head over to Donor Power Blog. Get your posts in to npc.carnival AT yahoo.com by this Friday night if you want Jeff to review them. I’ve made a few…
The Columbus Foundation asked me to write an article on annual reports for one of their newsletters. That article appears below. If you’d like a customized article for your foundation or association newsletter on nonprofit annual reports or another nonprofit communications topic, contact me at kivi *AT* writing911.com or 336-499-5816. Even though nonprofit organizations aren’t…
This week’s carnival is up at the Nonprofit Consultant Blog. Ken reports having a hard time narrowing it down to seven posts this week, so you are in for some great stuff. Posts cover social marketing, branding, public speaking, fundraising and more. Next week we return to Data-Scribe Blog. If you’d like to contribute a…
