Nonprofit Marketing Guide

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

I was determined to get to the root cause and find solutions to the barriers that were stopping us from executing these important mission-forward activities. Here is where I found myself embracing project management. This didn’t sit right, considering how much impact some of these projects and ideas could have had.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

APRIL 10, 2024

Getting on the Same Page In the nonprofit realm, communicators often juggle the tricky task of keeping everyone on the same page. Incorporating fun activities and team-building exercises can enhance camaraderie and make collaborative efforts more enjoyable and successful. Mix Work with Play. Establish Effective Systems and Processes.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

You set goals, like these twelve communications goals for nonprofits , including community engagement, raising awareness of issues, and fundraising. And every day you manage tactical communications channels like email, social media, print marketing, PR and more. The answer is Communications or Marketing Strategies. .

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 10, 2023

New Me” stuff, January is a perfect time to evaluate how you manage your time. But try to avoid doing the audit when you are covering for a co-worker, about to go on vacation, working on a major one-off project or other times with unusual activity. Is Time Management the Key to Happiness? The post Stop Overcommitting!

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

DECEMBER 8, 2021

While the position poses some challenges, it’s also incredibly rewarding and with some clear boundaries and reasonable expectations, the workload can be more manageable. . With marketing, I begin by first building a calendar for all the activities happening throughout the year and from there build a rolling 90-day content calendar. .

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In previous posts, I’ve shared with you the twelve most common nonprofit marketing and communications goals and the twelve most common nonprofit marketing and communications strategies. Today let’s talk about the types of objectives you should have in your communications plan.

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Communication Retention Nonprofits Education 209

Affnetz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Exploring Donor Management Software: A Go-To Guide for Small Nonprofits / By Mike Crum The best software for fundraising activities include a range of impressive features that help with the different stages of a fundraising cycle. This major pitfall can be avoided by investing in the best software for fundraising activities.

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Affnetz

JUNE 10, 2024

Summer Camp Management Software | Streamline STEAM Lessons / By Affnetz Over the years, I’ve developed innovative solutions that harness technology to solve real-world challenges. While camps provide incredible experiences for kids, integrating STEAM lessons effectively can be a headache for camp managers.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 25, 2019

Welcome to the latest installment in our series on the “Day in the Life” of nonprofit communicators! She is also on the Action Civics Advisory Committee for Sacramento County and an active volunteer at her daughter’s elementary school. I often check in with any active partners during this time. Don’t see the form?

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NonProfit Leadership Center

OCTOBER 17, 2023

A good volunteer manager should help your organization recognize this and build a team approach. Outcomes-based evaluations measure a significant change that has occurred to an activity. Did the activities performed lead to the outcome(s) that your nonprofit believes your clients and/or community needs?

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s one of the most common complaints we hear from nonprofit communicators: I don’t have enough time to do all this work. . But we also know that if you work in nonprofit communications, 99% of the time, you’ve been asked to do too much (or have agreed to do too much or have too many great ideas on your own).

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

AUGUST 26, 2020

No matter where you are in the process of creating more effective communications and marketing for your nonprofit, you can always do more. These five levels are from our Five Levels of Nonprofit Communications Effectiveness based on years of research for the annual Nonprofit Communications Trends Reports. Level 1: Beginner.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The best way to do this is to maintain open lines of communication with them. . But your organization shouldn’t stop there when planning your communication strategy. Instead, make sure you’re segmenting your donor base when planning how to communicate with them. Why Donor Segmentation Matters for Communication.

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Bloomerang

MAY 20, 2024

In the dynamic world of nonprofits, managing supporters effectively often feels like juggling too many tasks at once. Enter Bloomerang Membership Management , a feature-rich add-on that merges donor and membership data seamlessly, helping you create a holistic engagement strategy. But what if you could simplify this?

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 25, 2022

Need to improve your Active Listening Skills in the Workplace ? Bonnie Meyer shares 4 Communications Strategy Tips for Donor Retention. Nonprofit Communications Training for You… The Annual All-Access Training Pass. April 21: Social Media Trends for Nonprofit Communicators in 2022 with Kivi Leroux Miller.

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Socailbrite

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Yet it is action, not avoidance, that will inspire others to do the same and, ultimately, create a culture of effective activism for change. For nonprofit organizations and communicators in particular, we have a responsibility to find ways to inspire constituents to act on important issues that affect us all.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 17, 2022

One of the reasons that measuring nonprofit marketing communications work is so hard is that we have a lot of different marketing and communications objectives to consider. Measurement Frameworks for Communications and Marketing. For example, having people attend an event or donate money are impacts of your communications.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

While many will argue it’s all about pay, according to Gallup research , the highest quit rate is among those that are “not engaged” and “actively disengaged” workers. Millions of people have quit their jobs across all job categories with many more considering it. State of the Global Workplace: 2021 Report.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

MARCH 4, 2024

Please join us in welcoming Isabella Perello Khalili as our new program operations manager. In this role, Isabella will help manage many of our learning experiences, including classes , custom solutions , cohorts and our annual conference. There is a new face at the Nonprofit Leadership Center!

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 15, 2020

For the last several years, we’ve blogged and trained nonprofit communicators about the importance of monitoring email engagement – not just open and click-through rates on individual emails, but how many people on your email list have opened at least one email within a set period time, such as the last three months. .

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Affnetz

AUGUST 22, 2023

Exploring Donor Management Software: A Go-To Guide for Small Nonprofits Exploring Donor Management Software: A Go-To Guide for Small Nonprofits / By Mike Crum In today’s digital age, technology has transformed the way Nonprofit organizations operate and connect with their supporters.

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Affnetz

APRIL 30, 2024

By tailoring communications to individual preferences and interests, nonprofits can create a more meaningful connection with donors. Identifying a donor’s motivational triggers and then segmenting your communications to donors based on their deepest interest is essential to keeping a donor’s attention.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Their biggest selling point is the convenience: Most nonprofit communicators have to manage Facebook Pages as part of their jobs, so they are already in there anyway. I’m still an active participant in several Facebook Groups centered on hobbies of mine. People know how Facebook works, so there is no learning curve.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Despite the growth of online fundraising and other nonprofit software solutions that allow you to execute your tasks from anywhere, communicating with different team members virtually can be more difficult than gathering in a central office space and meeting in person. Encouraging everyone to take a communications course.

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Big Duck

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Explore insights on fostering collaboration, onboarding communications leaders, and managing day-to-day activities to build culture, retain staff, and foster growth.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 5, 2023

If you work in nonprofit communications, suddenly you are a professional photographer. And you are also supposed to know how to edit photos and then sort, manage, and store them all in some meaningful way. I learned a lot from Andy Mann, one of the participants in our Communications Director Mentoring Program.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JULY 13, 2020

Here is another submission for our Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Quarantine Edition. Punita’s Bio : My name is Punita Khanna and I am Director of Community Relations for Dr. Susan Love Foundation for Breast Cancer Research. Necessary communication is by text to respect each other’s work commitments.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

If you’re a leader at a museum, you know that managing this type of organization involves many moving parts. Fortunately, management becomes significantly simpler when you have the right tools on your side. In this guide, we’ll look at four essential features to look for when considering museum management solutions.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

DECEMBER 13, 2023

To learn more about what we are offering in 2024, see Reveal Video: Our 2024 Nonprofit Communications Training Schedule. You must be able to articulate how those marketing activities will contribute to generating more revenue or increasing impact. This context is essential when you’re considering your budget request.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

It’s a story about how a small group of dedicated professionals — in this case, rangelands professionals — are becoming communications leaders in their sector and bringing their colleagues along. They synthesized that into a 13-page communications guide for rangelands professionals. They knew they needed help.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

AUGUST 14, 2024

Being able to move our ideas, teams, and organizations forward relies on our ability to organize and communicate clearly and seamlessly. SOPs, project management tools, and automation software help with consistency and quality control. Procedures are specific methods or steps for performing tasks or activities.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

APRIL 29, 2019

A couple of weeks ago, I shared some tips from other nonprofit communicators on how to communicate internally at your organization as well as other resources on getting people to meet deadlines and the best communications apps to use. Today I am sharing the internal newsletter used by Community Partners in LA.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Or just go to an organization whose marketing communications you admire. With that kind of money at stake, you know someone is actively managing the testing. Pick a big national or international nonprofit that you think is generally using similar messaging to yours or is trying to reach the same kinds of people.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

JUNE 1, 2023

All the while I am a mom – picking up and dropping off kids, helping with homework, acting as a chauffeur to after-school activities EVERY NIGHT during the week. And I am still responsible for all the cooking, cleaning, laundry, and managing schedules. For me, I must build timelines and manage projects to accomplish top priorities.

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 10, 2024

That means that building a reliable, sustainable major gift moves management process is more important now than ever. Moves management describes the steps of the major donor journey, from solicitation to renewal and upgrade. That’s why asking for a major gift in the right way is essential to effective moves management.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JULY 18, 2023

Community engagement is nonprofit communications professionals’ number one marketing and communications goal. Our Nonprofit Communications Trends Reports show that year after year. But what does Community Engagement mean, and how can your nonprofit do it and measure it?

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

JUNE 5, 2024

Break Down Silos Silos and barriers between generations and departments can hinder communication, collaboration, and innovation within nonprofit organizations. Cultivate a Culture of Respect Respectful communication and mutual understanding are essential for bridging generational and knowledge divides within nonprofit teams.

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