Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

I cant think of a term more widely used in the professional world than leadership. Throughout my life, from teenage years to now, my career has been filled with leadership training programs: Teen leadership, student leadership, emerging leadership, and executive leadership. Its an idyllic view of leadership.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 7, 2025

At a time of a leadership transition, planned or unplanned, more and more organizations are using interim leaders (aka interims) to help the board address organizational challenges, large and small, that may have existed during the tenure of the previous leader.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 17, 2022

Are you ready to get serious about measuring your nonprofit marketing success? 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.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

learn how to maximize your marketing strategy on Dec. Join Us to Enhance Your Fundraising Strategies See all the upcoming nonprofit training classes and certificate programs from the Nonprofit Leadership Center, including our fundraising and marketing events, to strengthen your skills, organization and communities.

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Concord Leadership

MARCH 13, 2025

In leadership, we often focus on confidence as the cornerstone of success. But what if I told you that one of history’s most effective leaders executed a flawless marketing and influence campaign while openly expressing doubt about her chances of success?

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 6, 2022

Whether you are a team of one or several, you probably have questions about how other nonprofit communications or marketing teams are set up and how they function. For example, should fundraising and marketing teams be integrated or separate but equal? All this might boil down into three essential roles for your marketing team.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JANUARY 11, 2021

Kimberly Zhang recently published How To Be Successful In Leadership As an Introverted Leader , and here is a summary of what she shared: Focus on Your Strengths. It used to be that introverts were only thought of as either passive or stand-offish – not great qualities for a leader.

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NonProfit PRO

MARCH 26, 2024

Marketing failures sometimes may be tied to leadership toward the top of the organization. Here's why — plus tips to remedy these issues.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MAY 8, 2024

Working in nonprofit marketing and communication teaches us many things, but perhaps most importantly, that we’re all in this together. We strive to advance our missions with limited budgets and manpower, juggling multiple priorities and often battling misconceptions about the value of good marketing. Have competing priorities.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JUNE 18, 2024

Let’s tackle the appropriate reaction for nonprofit communications pros to this situation: Your executive director or other senior managers may have just hired a marketing consultant without previously talking to you. Do they not see you as having leadership potential? They think it’s going to be great and are so excited!

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Ann Green

MARCH 10, 2025

Whether this is a simple Google Doc or an automated path in your LMS, your checklist should cover basic activities and tasks such as: Learn about the nonprofits mission, values, programs, and leadership. Review workplace policies, including communication and paid time off (PTO). Attend a virtual or in-person tour of the facility.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Written by: Randye S Spina, MBA Reading Time: 4 minutes I’ve served on several nonprofit boards in marketing and communications roles and have seen first-hand that marketing is often an afterthought. An easy way to do this is to set aside a slot on each board meeting agenda to discuss marketing. should be added to the document.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 22, 2021

As a result, we here at Nonprofit Marketing Guide have decided to pause our hosting of Tom’s webinars indefinitely. As Kristina and I were working through the Nonprofit Marketing Guide site redesign over the winter, our web developer asked us for our values for the About Us page. Is this pause permanent? We don’t know yet. .

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Your nonprofit can leverage these tools when creating materials to fulfill various communication needs, such as: Multi-channel marketing to spread the word about your mission digitally and in print. Engagement analytics to evaluate the performance of your marketing content and fundraising appeals so you can hone your strategies.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 5, 2021

In this episode of The NonProfit Voice, Nhu Te, editor-in-chief of NonProfit PRO, is joined by Dan Clasgens, digital marketing supervisor at Disabled American Veterans, and Chris Dingus, senior client success manager at Hustle.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

APRIL 13, 2021

What marketing metrics should go in a board report? Should they have a marketing and communications committee and, if yes, what would they do? The post Tell Me Where Your Board Has Been Genuinely Helpful in Marketing appeared first on Nonprofit Marketing Guide. Should they attend meetings? Do you have such a story?

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This is happening in the middle of budget season, grant reporting, wrapping up that fall event, and various program marketing initiatives. Every day, a great snowfall of new emails with marketing requests blankets your inbox, while also dreading the inevitable task of identifying from where 2022 funding will come. .

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

AUGUST 28, 2024

It’s up to your association to harness this momentum by not only reaching out to potential new members but also creating marketing materials that keep your existing members engaged. Behind any great marketing strategy is an effective plan. Marketing data. Determine foundational details. Choose communication channels.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

OCTOBER 14, 2021

I recently spoke with Tosha Anderson of The Charity CFO and A Modern Nonprofit Podcast about the importance of marketing and branding in the nonprofit sector. I shared my thoughts on the differences we saw during the pandemic between nonprofits that understand marketing and branding and those that do not. Check out her site!

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Fundraising Leadership

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

It is the 10th anniversary of Take The Lead Women, the extraordinary nonprofit organization co-founded by Feldt with the mission of gender parity in leadership. Ragan Communications just named Take The Lead Women and Women, Power and Leadership the winner of Best Interview in their annual 2024 Video, Visual & Virtual Awards.

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The Charity CFO

MARCH 26, 2025

A peek into your lifeyour dog, your favorite leadership lesson, your morning routinecan create meaningful connection without crossing boundaries. But What If Youre Not a Marketing Person? Write down small wins, leadership lessons, or daily observations. Its about leadership. Be personalbut not private.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

JANUARY 3, 2023

One of the best ways to maximize your ROI on outreach is to cultivate your digital presence through marketing. While digital marketing is usually associated with the for-profit world, your social impact organization has just as much to gain from having a strong online identity. Collaborate with nonprofit influencers. Wrapping Up.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The Nonprofit Leadership Center (NLC) is pleased to announce that Michelle M. The Nonprofit Leadership Center exists to ensure our nonprofits have the tools to thrive and continue to do the work that is so important to our community. What’s your favorite class or learning experience from the Nonprofit Leadership Center?

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JUNE 22, 2021

Back at the end of May, we shared a new quiz that helps you determine how in touch your management team is with the realities of modern nonprofit communications and marketing. It’s a broader agreement with this statement: Marketing effectiveness depends on a confident, skilled professional. Here it is if you want to take it.

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Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Plan an event around setting social impact goals or sharing important cause marketing trends for the year. It says a lot about your leadership and values. The most recent issue of the Engage for Good newsletter points to this page on cause marketing law resources. Marketing Your Cause 1. Host a January trends webinar.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

MARCH 10, 2023

Time to spring forward…into the most helpful articles, posts, and tips for nonprofit marketers. This week we have examples of great personalized emails, choosing happy or sad images, March Madness for marketers, an inclusive tech glossary and more. Here are 5 Reasons Why Social Media is Essential for Small Nonprofits.

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 3, 2025

A strong team with donor cultivation, communication, and marketing skills can help expand your reach and inspire increased support. However, theyre also a test of your organizations management abilities , marketing capabilities, and technology. 4 Things to Know First appeared first on Nonprofit Leadership Alliance.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

MARCH 6, 2023

Here at the Nonprofit Leadership Center, we believe spring is the perfect time to make plans for your personal and professional development. April 2023 Level Up Your Leadership: How to Become the Leader Everyone Wants to Follow — April 4 Are leaders born, or is leadership something you can learn? REGISTER NEW!

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JULY 12, 2023

Creating a nonprofit marketing budget is much like growing and tending plants – though kind of in reverse. Your carefully nurtured marketing efforts will yield fruitful results. Plants need oxygen to survive, and marketing needs funds to thrive. Creating the marketing budget What will you need?

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Fundraising Leadership

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Read more about Loretta McCarthy in Take The Lead A Take The Lead board member for 10 years, since its founding, McCarthy says, “The thing that drew me to Take The Lead was there are many organizations out to train people on leadership techniques. of the angel market, an increase from 2022 (39.5%) and 2021 (33.6%).

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

JULY 2, 2021

Before you head out, let’s take a look at the most helpful articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. We have website designs, leadership tips, how Google works, what to post on social media and more. Lars Lofgren compiled a list of the Best Leadership Courses.

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 6, 2025

TrueSense Marketing, the national direct response fundraising firm based in Warrendale, Pennsylvania, promoted executive vice presidents Marcy Auman and Shawn Reed to co-presidents. It makes sense that the next evolution in our technical and personal approach to results and relationships happens under their combined direct leadership.

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Fundraising Leadership

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Many choices for great podcasts on leadership are available to listen and learn. million podcasts around the world to pick from, which ones are best for you as a busy person interested in womens business, leadership, and entrepreneurship topics? Lots of choices and options are good, but when you have close to 4.2

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

APRIL 28, 2024

To help you grow into a modern leader, we’ll explore these common nonprofit management skills you can (and should) develop at your own organization: Marketing Fundraising Public Speaking Interpersonal Communications Relationship-Building Strategic Planning Delegation Budget Allocation Problem-Solving Before training your team, invest in yourself.

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Nonprofit Marketing Guide

AUGUST 3, 2021

One approach to prioritizing is to think about how important communications and marketing are to the success of the organization’s larger, mission-oriented goal. For example, if you run a social service program that has a 10-12 month waitlist, you probably don’t need to do a lot of marketing to encourage people to use the service.

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NonProfit Leadership Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Two mentors at the Nonprofit Leadership Center recommended the Certificate in Nonprofit Management,” Erin recalls. “I But we walked away understanding the behavioral science behind marketing. Research, strategic planning and market segmentation all go into marketing. I decided to go all-in.”

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NonProfit Leadership Alliance

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Specify what you saw or heard about them, and explain how you think this characteristic could contribute to their leadership development. Centralizing this data in their profile will help you and other nonprofit staff cultivate the volunteer’s leadership skills further. Recognizing standout volunteers both privately and publicly.

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