What’s Your Top Strength as an #NPCOMM Director?
We are having some fun with a new quiz tool we are trying, courtesy of Interact. Want to find out your top strength as a nonprofit communications director? Take the Quiz!
Communications Team Models: What’s Best for Your Nonprofit?
In brand-new research for the 2017 edition of the Nonprofit Communications Trends Report, we discovered that four types of communications teams are most prevalent in our sector. While those teams are equally distributed, that’s really where the similarities end. Only two of the team models — Integrated and Centralized — performed well on the…
What Type of Communications Team Works Best at Your Nonprofit?
According to our research, 75% of nonprofit communications teams are organized in one of four ways, based on how the workload for the team is created. We’ve labeled these teams: Integrated Centralized Internal Agency CEO-Led Next week, Kivi is leading a BRAND NEW webinar that will break down each of these four types and…
Simple Rules, Part I: How to Make Better and Faster #NpComm Decisions
In their book, Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World (Amazon), Donald Sull and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt define simple rules as “shortcut strategies that save time and effort by focusing our attention and simplifying the way we process information.” They help us simplify complex systems and decisions so that we can move more quickly…
Mixed Links for Nonprofit Communicators March 3, 2017
Welcome to a slightly later than normal edition of Mixed Links… As part of a major ongoing study, Sea Change would like to hear from communicators to gain their perspective on creating harmonious and effective relationships across departments. Canva shares 10 tactics for launching on social media and generating buzz, inspired by companies who’ve done it [with…
6 Tips for Launching Your Own Member Month Campaign
December is done. Looking for your next great fundraising campaign? Try a member month campaign. Here are 6 quick tips for launching your own member month campaign. 1. Make It About THEM, Not Just YOU As tempting as it may be to use a membership month campaign to boost a slow fundraising month, member month campaigns MUST…
What’s Going on in March
Here’s what’s happening at Nonprofit Marketing Guide this month: Online Training: Mar 2: Beyond December: Raise Money Throughout the Year with These Seasonal Fundraising Campaigns Kerri Karvetski shares creative ideas on how to raise money throughout the year. Starts at 1:00 p.m. ET (10:00 a.m. Pacific) | Registration is $50 or included with an All-Access Pass Learn…
5 Strategies for Using Social Media for Media Relations
During my days as a newspaper reporter and editor, I was always on the lookout for story ideas. More often than not, these ideas didn’t come through news releases or pitches. They came through something I observed. Through a conversation with a neighbor. Or through something I overheard in the checkout line at the grocery store.…
Mixed Links for Nonprofit Communicators
How is everyone doing out there? Let’s wind down the week with some Mixed Links… It’s time to vote for the 11th Annual DoGooder Video Awards. Does your org have a budget under $2 million? Be part of the 2016 Individual Donor Benchmark Project. From the Nonprofit Tech Blog Carnival, we have 9 Fundraising Event Resources for…
Where’s the Love: Is Your Communications Strategy LGBTQ Inclusive?
Here at Nonprofit Marketing Guide, we believe that cultural competency is an important element of good nonprofit communications. Today, contributing writer Antionette Kerr takes a look at several ways you can improve LGBTQ inclusion in your organization and its communications. ~Kivi When people think about cultural competency, they tend to talk in terms of race,…
All the Rage: Fundraising on Fury and Revenge
Fundraising isn’t all lofty and inspiring. Lately, a lot of it is quite angry. And quite successful. via GIPHY Outrage over President Trump’s immigrant ban helped the ACLU raise more money online in one weekend than in all of 2016. Nathan Pryor hacked an Amazon Dash button to send $5 to the ACLU every time he felt outrage…
Five Ways to Plan for the Unexpected, #NPComm Style
I’m teaching about editorial calendars a lot this month, and here’s one of the key lessons: Stay strategic while also making room for the unexpected. You don’t know what’s going to happen in the future. But you do know that something is going to come up that you’ll have to deal with. So you need…