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The Latest from the Nonprofit Marketing Community

Thursday, September 2, 2010
Can you even tell the story of how he has his own garden now, and his own landscaping business? Fitted with high-tech legs, Scout Bassett, at left, and Sarah Reinertsen run together on a track. Photograph courtesy Challenged Athletes Foundation. The story where the hero is thrown out of his home. I: Departure. The Call to Adventure. Welcome!
 
Monday, August 30, 2010
Now a Portland-based company has launched Causeon. From GoodSearch to CauseWorld , the Internet is littered with cause-centric businesses that were founded on the belief that generous consumers would drive success but didn’t. Maybe Causeon can show Groupon that causes should be a more prominent part of its business.
 
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Instead of posting a single grant opportunity, in this post today, I've decide to list a few organizations that can assist anyone (in the world, anywhere) in locating potential grant (funding) opportunities and supportive assistance. For International Non-Government Organizations (outside of the U.S.)
 

The Best from the Nonprofit Marketing Community

Faithful readers:The following is from my periodic column in the business weekly, the Salt Lake Enterprise. In it I profile how a fast-growing company and a innovative charity connected five years ago in a way that has greatly benefited both parties.
Skip helps business leaders create “Champion Organizations” with improved personnel, productivity and profits. Procrastinated on business opportunities. These behaviors had caused significant damage to my client’s business, estimated at about $5 million over 10 years: Communication Sin #1: Lack of Specificity.
I just came across an interesting blog post by Stephen Monrad with title of " Can non-profit organizations meet all the needs for-profit businesses currently meet? For example, I'm aware of a catering company that is a tax-exempt nonprofit. nonprofit can also run a for-profit business. Tags: profit Nonprofit business
However, in terms of using the report to drive decisions about business or nonprofit blogging, keep the second half of the study's title in mind: the ideas in this paper are based on the "self-reports" and opinions of bloggers who responded to an open call in May 2006 to participate. business. business_blog. nptech.
[Blogger's Note: What follows is an email exchange between Jack, who owns a promotional products business in Greensboro, North Carolina, and your's truly.]Hi Hi PaulI have a small promotional products logowear business and want to donate a portion of sales to my client’s charities. How do I get started?
The concept of asymmetry explains how small, start-up companies or organizations can effectively compete and steal marketshare from larger, established ones. Tags: competition assymetry Nonprofit mergers management business My friend, Tom, over at the True Talk Blog, has an interesting post called "Asymmetry is the New Black."
terrible business idea. It’s a terrible business idea because when the bloom is off the venture the cafe won’t be able to sustain itself from customer donations, much less give back to causes. Absolut wouldn’t be on its fifth city-inspired vodka if they weren’t good for business. Or something like that.
In today’s rocky economy it may be small businesses that have may have the most to gain from integrating cause marketing into their marketing efforts. It can help a company stand. Tags: Causewashing Trout Unlimited TOMS Shoes Small Business Cause-Related Marketing Galactic Pizza General Mills BoxTops for Education Kiva
In my never-ending quest to root out new cause-related marketing buzzwords, I came across this one: “all-benefits companies.” Tags: Unique Selling Proposition PeaceKeeper Cause-Metics All Benefits Companies Paul Newman Newman's Own A.E. all know the story of Newman’s Own. Hotchner
Which can leave you with something of an inferiority complex about the fact that you haven’t actually had time to begin testing them properly – because you’ve been too busy raising money. Apparently 73 of the Fortune 100 companies are on Twitter, with 540 Twitter accounts between them.