The 9th edition of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has been posted at Aspiration Tech. The topic is nonprofit operations, and you’ll find some great tips to help your nonprofit run more smoothly. Our topic for the coming week is “Nonprofit Horror Stories.” This should be a good one! If you want to share, send…
I have great relationships with several printers whom I rely on to make my clients’ written materials look great. Here’s how you can develop a great relationship with a printer too. 1) Expect outstanding customer service. You deserve to be treated well. The printing industry is very competitive, so if your printer’s customer service people…
This question came in last week to AskKivi.com, the site where you can ask me all those publications questions not answered on my other websites. “What is a good ratio of program to budget information for annual reports for a nonprofit organization?” I’d go with the 80-20 rule on this one. Eighty percent should be…
Welcome to the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, #8. We had no special theme this week, so I have picked seven posts from the nonprofit blogosphere that I found particularly useful and enlightening. Here you go: Nedra Weinreich at Spare Change has been sitting on a grant evaluation panel and shares some great advice on how…
Nonprofits often rely on consultants to perform work that their staffs aren’t capable of doing because they lack the time, skills, or interest in doing the work themselves. Learn how to get the most out of your consulting relationships with the posts in the this week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, hosted by Data-Scribe Blog. The…
Nonprofit managers, ask yourselves these seven questions before you hire a freelance writer. Before you start interviewing . . . 1. What do I want a freelance writer to do? The more specific you can be about what you need, the better you’ll be able to recruit a freelance writer who can meet your needs.…
Nedra Weinreich at Spare Change is hosting this week’s carnival and her theme is “Marketing for Nonprofits.” Check out the carnival for posts both thought-provoking and pragmatic. Next week the Carnival heads to Data-Scribe Blog and the theme is “Working with Nonprofit Consultants.” To be notified when each edition of the Carnival has been posted,…
Nonprofits have great stories to tell — and telling them well is what brings in more support, whether it be cash, volunteers, new partners or political help. But writing up all of those stories and formatting them for publication can be time-consuming. To save yourself some time while still gaining all the benefits of good…
After a week off, we are back with the fifth edition of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. Our host this week is N-TEN Connect and the theme is Technology for Nonprofits. Visit the edition here for some outstanding posts and commentary from our host. Next week’s topic is Marketing for Nonprofits and we’ll be at…
To get the folks on your mailing list to read your newsletters, you need to provide them with something of value. Just updating them on what you’ve been doing isn’t enough. One way to do that is to help them solve problems they face. You can do that with several different types of newsletters articles:…
I get this question all the time when I teach newsletter courses. It’s a very common question because (1) the nonprofit staff asked to “do the newsletter” rarely have any graphic design experience and (2) all they have on their computers is the Microsoft Office Suite, so they start with Word or Publisher and quickly…
I have launched a new online directory for nonprofits at www.500GoodCauses.com. It’s a “word cloud” directory made famous in the past few weeks by Joel Comm and his 500Words.com site. I’ve taken Joel’s software and am using it for good causes! It works like this: Each of the 500 words or phrases on the site…
