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Pandemic Creates More Planning and Collaboration on Communications

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

In the survey for the upcoming 2021 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report, we asked three questions about the impact of the pandemic on your communications work. Similarly, 33% said the level of collaboration was about the same as a typical year, with 11% saying they saw less collaboration as a result of the pandemic.

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The Art of Communications Collaborations

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

It made it clear how vital a focus on collaboration is, especially when we’re all trying to do a lot with a little in the nonprofit world. Getting on the Same Page In the nonprofit realm, communicators often juggle the tricky task of keeping everyone on the same page. True collaboration is imperative for achieving our goals.

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Collaborating and Working Remotely: Advice from a Nonprofit Communications Director Who’s Done It For Years

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

She shared some great advice on doing so successfully with others in her cohort of the Communications Director Mentoring Program last year. If you are struggling at all with internal communications or collaboration while you and/or others are working remotely, this is for you. So, she recorded this 20-minute video for you.

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How to Write a Collaborative Communications Strategy

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

When Cathy White shared with our Mentoring Program participants the collaborative process she went through to create her communications strategy, I knew other communications directors would be interested in hearing about it too. As such, I was tasked with creating a five-year communications strategy. Cathy White.

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Collaboration and Communications Work

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

We see it every year in the data from the Nonprofit Communications Trends Report. Nonprofit communications directors want better collaboration internally on how content gets planned, created, and published. It’s the C in CALM: Collaborative, Agile, Logical, and Methodical. Big Picture Communications Timelines.

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What Nonprofit Communications Directors Should Name and Own

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

.” Here are some of the ideas and issues you should be naming and owning in your nonprofit as a communications director. The Marketing and Communications Planning Documents. What should your marketing and/or communications plans look like? They just know they need someone to do communications. Name it and own it.

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4 Steps to Work Through Collaboration Problems

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Under normal circumstances, communications directors need to collaborate with their coworkers and managers, and that’s even more true now. But collaboration is messy because people are messy! Don’t make the collaboration problem all about you and your needs. We’ll share advice on collaborating soon.