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Although this letter is meant for the “community” (non-donors and donors), this is NOT how you should ever address people. Dear University of Maryland community: In late 2006, the University of Maryland publicly launched the $1 billion Great Expectations campaign. The post How NOT to write a letter to your supporter community appeared first on MarketSmart | . Here’s an old letter from my alma mater. MORE
Today I am hosting the #Commbuild Twitter chat and the topic is creative ways to celebrate online community members. Here are 10 ideas and ways to celebrate, acknowledge and reward your online community members for being there for you and for being awesome! Start by taking some time to plan out an acknowledgement and celebration strategy for your online community members: 1) Shift your focus. Will you have a specific budget for celebrating community members? MORE
Historically, the school has done a great job opening itself up to the community (and building a strong base of support) via frequent free or low-charge concerts at Curtis and other cultural venues throughout the city. Recently, in response to the Knight Foundation’s Random Acts of Culture program, Curtis students have been bringing their music to the community—performing in parks, Ikea, Starbucks, Barnes & Noble and other venues. MORE
Layla Fry, director of communications for Southwest Key Programs , emailed me this question: “My organization is interested in merging the now separate functions of fundraising and communications into a ‘Community Engagement Team’ as you recommended in your book. Many people mistakenly think the book is about social media, but it’s actually much more about this idea of breaking down the silos in our organizations and working toward community engagement. MORE
Beth Ann Spiegel. In this guest post, Beth Ann Spiegel shares a great example of what can happen when you really listen to your supporters and get to know your target audiences better. ~Kivi. Guest Post by Beth Ann Spiegel, Fund Development and Communications Associate of The Arc of Atlantic County. As nonprofit marketers, we can all probably relate to the situation Alice finds herself in during the first two chapters of Alice in Wonderland. MORE
When I talk to community-based nonprofits that serve local or regional areas about content marketing or thought leadership, I often hear excuses like, “We aren’t the experts. The national groups are. Why would anyone listen to us about this issue, when we just serve this little corner of the world?” ” While national groups may have easier access to national data or trends, it doesn’t mean that people trust them more, or what to hear from them rather than you. MORE
Today I am sharing sample “asks” or “appeals” that will work for community engagement. 6 Ways You Can Ask Your Community to Engage. The post 6 Proven Community Engagement Asks appeared first on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog. An engagement ask is simply another way, besides donating, that people can confirm that they share your values and want to participate in your good work. MORE
It’s a community experience where generations of family and friends often walk together to celebrate life. The brand can create a framework but it is the community who builds community. In the wee hours of the morning traffic challenged Peachtree Street in Buckhead (Atlanta) experiences a few quiet hours before the mad rush hour/s begin. But not on the Fourth of July. MORE
Who would get excited about all of us together starting an online community where we promote each other’s online fundraising? Here are a couple of ideas that I’m thinking we could offer if together we decided to create this community. Ok, so I’m getting excited about a new idea. Would you be willing to commit to comment and vote for each other to win/raise money for your organization? Online fundraising can be really hard especially when you’re first getting started. MORE
Last week I shared some ways you can ask your community to show their support that don’t involve donating. Today, I am back – along with our favorite fake organization – The Center for Wayward Squirrels – to show you six more ways to make a community engagement ask. 6 MORE Ways You Can Ask Your Community to Engage. The post 6 MORE Proven Community Engagement Asks appeared first on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog. MORE
In the nonprofit event world, email communication is still king in driving interest to your fundraising events, ticket sales and registrations, or getting supporters excited about supporting your cause. Marketing CrowdRise Updates MORE
To better illustrate this, I performed a quick data pull and community visualization using social network analysis techniques of nearly 12,ooo tweets mentioning @OttawaHealth or @OttawaSante over the course of 4 weeks (June 17-July 7, 2020). As seen in the slide I created below, there are nearly 7,000 unique users interacting with the Ottawa Health account from a variety of closely-knit communities. MORE
Join us TOMORROW for a BRAND NEW WEBINAR that will show you how to do all of that and more: Beyond Opens and Clicks: Maintaining a Healthy Email List and Re-Engaging Your Community. The post How to Maintain a Healthy Email List and Re-Engage Your Community appeared first on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog. Maintaining a healthy email list is essential to running an effective email marketing or fundraising program. MORE
If you’re trying to organization and mobilize people to get things done in your community, I’ve got a couple of resources for you. Here are two documents from the Center for Community Change. . “Funding Community Organizing: Social Change Through Civic Participation&#. “Untapped: How Community Organizers Can Develop and Deepen Relationships with Major Donors and Raise Big Money&#. MORE
Pilloton founded Project H Design , a non-profit design firm where they apply the design process to catalyze communities and public education from within. In short, Poilloton and the Project H team “design solutions that empower communities and build collective creative capital.&# What if public health wasn’t just the responsibility of public health folks but resonated and took root in our communities? MORE
Engaging Your Library Community Through Storytelling and Social Media from Julia Campbell – J Campbell Social Marketing. Participants will learn why storytelling is so vital to a successful nonprofit marketing and fundraising strategy, and how they can use their organization’s stories to grow support and engage communities. The post Engaging Your Library Community Through Storytelling and Social Media appeared first on JCSM. MORE
A few months after I wrote the book Google+ for Nonprofits , Google+ released a new feature called "Communities." In communities, everyone sees each others posts and comments, giving much more opportunity for people to build stronger connections. When I invited him to do a primer on Communities for Google+, he ended up writing a much longer post! You can read the full post at Google+ for Your Nonprofit Marketing Mix: Profile, Page, & Community. Community. MORE
crowd sourcing initiative that I always use in my presentations, has just launched a new initiative called Apps for Democracy “Community Edition&#. Citizens get to submit their community improvement ideas in real-time and vote using this insights portal. Apps For Democracy Community Edition from Peter Corbett on Vimeo. MORE
I met Elizabeth Hundley Finley, the development and communications manager for the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina , a couple of weeks ago at an AFP workshop I presented. She told me the story of how she recently changed her Twitter handle and her approach to how she used Twitter and I was so impressed with her deft maneuvering that I asked Elizabeth to share her story with you. Guest Post by Elizabeth Hundley Finle y. MORE
In this episode , we discuss: Social media is about being your authentic self and building your community. **The The goal for getting on social media (from a marketing standpoint) is to create a dynamic, engaged community of people. Social media marketing is using online tools to build a community and engage with your people where they are.” – @JuliaCSocial. “It MORE
Advocacy Cause Marketing Civics Climate Change Community Environment Fundraising Greening Marketing Media Review Nonprofit Politics Public Media relationships Reviews Social Media Technology advocacy communication Copenhagen OneClimate OneWorld Online Communities Social network Social networking serviceOf course those who are engaged in the pressing issues of environmental degradation and global warming want to reach out to audiences as wide as possible. MORE
How many of you view fundraising as community building? Do you partner with your donors to provide them opportunities to engage their friends and community in your cause? There are more and more opportunities through social media to engage our donor communities and I’m curious if you’ve had a chance to do just that? Have you built annual giving programs that allow your donors to have conversations with you about what their money is doing? MORE
I’m taking part in the virtual book tour that Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer are doing to explore concepts from Open Community: a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. Kivi: What the heck is an “Open Community?”. Your Open Community is your people who are bonded by what your organization represents and who care enough to talk to each other (hopefully about you!) Kivi: How does Open Community tie into nonprofit marketing and communications? MORE
If you go in looking to engage, interact and build up a community of people who are interested in your mission/brand, then down the road you have a better chance of successfully running a fundraising campaign.” How will you help your community? What are the guidelines for your community manager? That’s the mantra recommended by social media strategist and blogger Ephraim Gopin in his recent Fundraising Success article, Attention! MORE
On this blog and in her webinars and book, Kivi talks about how you should try to become your community’s favorite nonprofit because research has shown that people give two-thirds of their charitable donations each year to one favorite charity. One of the ways you become their favorite is by providing your community with great content that they keep coming back for. Here are some tips for creating a well-balanced diet of great content your community looks forward to: 1. MORE
Tags: small nonprofits Philanthropy Red Cross social media Online Communities MORE
Rather than focusing on just revenue, your nonprofit organization should be focusing on building relationships with your donors and expanding your engagement with your community. . Bring your nonprofit’s fundraising success to new heights by focusing on these 5 ways to expand community engagement: Donor Communication. Community Events. Community Drives. Think of pursuing your mission and engaging your community as twin sides of the same core goal. MORE
Recent articles in the New York Times and Fast Company about the excesses of some Donor Advised Funds point to a likely new reality for community foundations: that when a more reform-minded Congress is next seated, new rules will likely be put in place that will dramatically change the landscape for community foundations. The post 3 Things Your Community Foundation Should Communicate Now appeared first on Mission Minded. MORE
The folks at Glynn Devins Marketing have shared a keynote address that traces a case study they did with a local (Kansas) retirement community demonstrating the success of a drive on Facebook to increase ‘Likes’ and to offer donations as ever more people share their contact with that retirement community. Outreach to older Americans through social media might have once seemed a bit like trying to create an oasis in a desert: a great deal of effort lost in the sand. MORE
Here’s what’s happening this month at Nonprofit Marketing Guide…. Online Training: September 3: Marketing Bequests: How to Ask for That Final Gift with Tom Ahern. 90-Minute Webinar] Tom shares secrets from around the world on how to tactfully ask for bequests from your current donors. MORE
She founded the Ignited Online Fundraising Community and is author of the forthcoming book, Withism’s from Lori: Boldness, Clarity and Wisdom for Fundraising Professionals Making a Difference. NPM360: I’m particularly interested in your online fundraising community. Through a monthly webinar, an e-newsletter that I share with that community, or some email exchanges, they get support, they get listened to, they get new tips and tools. MORE
Here are 10 ways to build loyalty among your online community members through celebration and acknowledgement! Start by taking some time to plan out an acknowledgement and celebration strategy for your online community members. Instead of always thinking about the information we want to relay and making all marketing campaigns about us and our agenda, why not make it about our online community? Will you have a specific budget for celebrating community members? MORE
These neighborhoods are described as ones in which improved educational and developmental, commercial, recreational, physical and social assets are sustained by local leadership and lead to improved well-being and community quality-of-life. The idea of using social marketing to change neighborhoods and communities may seem absurd to people who believe that social marketing is ONLY about behavior change (or worse yet, using social media). MORE
Cover of The Fly [Blu-ray]When I was in high-tech I was a technical writer/editor, project manager and (often) software tester. Because of this background, I have a habit of thinking that the place to start with stakeholder engagement is with education. If I just do the right job of educating the stakeholders on the challenges,they'll be better prepared to support the team's efforts. When I. MORE
It’s the number one goal for nonprofit communications professionals: Community Engagement. But what does Community Engagement mean? That’s not exactly what we are after in our nonprofit communications world when we speak of community engagement. MORE
Engaging our community to keep people inspired by and active in our work. “Engaging our community” is the #1 nonprofit communications goal overall. Over 70% of nonprofits working in Other Public Benefit Research or Advocacy; Environment and Animals; and Human Services, Housing, Food, and Jobs said community engagement was a high or essential priority for 2017 (left side of the graph). MORE
Last week my time was completely eaten up by a event for a small nonprofit I volunteer for, which was why there was no new post. The event came together like a couple of rain-swollen rivers at a confluence. I was in charge of printed materials and signage and when I’ve done this stuff in the past, I generally have a few weeks to get it all together. This time, I pretty much got my marching MORE
Blogs Cause Marketing Communications Community Dashboards eNewsletter How-to Marketing Media Review Nonprofit Public Media Public Relations Resource Reviews Site Administration Social Media Software Review Technology Charitable organization communication Facebook Google Non-profit organization Nonprofit organization Online Communities Pinterest Social network TwitterWe introduced Scoop.it MORE
It is important as you develop and grow your online community that you have an intentional culture. Create some kind of opportunity for your community to engage you online via a comment box, forum, or Facebook page. When you are creating an online community, you want to think about your audience this way too. Related posts: Question: Building Community Online Strategy: Capital Campaign Interview Online Fundraising is Hard Online Giving Thoughts. MORE
A community garden in Montreal, Canada (Photo credit: Wikipedia). But with spring comes new buds, rebirth, baseball, and the opportunity to establish that community garden that you and your neighbors have been talking about all winter. The University of Missouri Extension Program has released one of the best guides we have ever seen about getting your community garden out of the dreams of you and your neighbors and getting it into the ground for everyone to enjoy. MORE
We are all looking for the secret sauce in reaching out to our communities whether it is the perfect language in your next solicitation letter or the call to action at your next gala. Unless you have a great referrals program and your board members and friend do a really good job of introducing you to the community it is hard to just meet new major donors. I have been amazed at the value of engaging and being connected in your community. MORE
These are your community members, your donors, the people who make your work possible. The post How to Communicate with Your Donors, Members, and Online Community Right Now – #NPCOVID19 appeared first on marketing for the modern nonprofit. I’ve been thinking about you. I want you to be safe. You ARE social distancing, right? Just checking. Many of you have reached out asking me what to do RIGHT NOW. What to post on social media? Should we even post? MORE
Engaging Your Nonprofit Community Through Storytelling & Social Media from Julia Campbell – J Campbell Social Marketing. The post Engaging Your Nonprofit Community Through Storytelling & Social Media appeared first on JCSM. Here are the slides from my presentation this morning to the People’s United Nonprofit Consortium on the topic of nonprofit storytelling and social media. Enjoy! MORE
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It’s the number one goal for nonprofit communications professionals: Community Engagement. But what does Community Engagement mean? That’s not exactly what we are after in our nonprofit communications world when we speak of community engagement.
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Today I am sharing sample “asks” or “appeals” that will work for community engagement. 6 Ways You Can Ask Your Community to Engage. The post 6 Proven Community Engagement Asks appeared first on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog. An engagement ask is simply another way, besides donating, that people can confirm that they share your values and want to participate in your good work.
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JANUARY 26, 2011
Pilloton founded Project H Design , a non-profit design firm where they apply the design process to catalyze communities and public education from within. In short, Poilloton and the Project H team “design solutions that empower communities and build collective creative capital.&# What if public health wasn’t just the responsibility of public health folks but resonated and took root in our communities?
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Last week I shared some ways you can ask your community to show their support that don’t involve donating. Today, I am back – along with our favorite fake organization – The Center for Wayward Squirrels – to show you six more ways to make a community engagement ask. 6 MORE Ways You Can Ask Your Community to Engage. The post 6 MORE Proven Community Engagement Asks appeared first on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog.
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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Here’s what’s happening this month at Nonprofit Marketing Guide…. Online Training: September 3: Marketing Bequests: How to Ask for That Final Gift with Tom Ahern. 90-Minute Webinar] Tom shares secrets from around the world on how to tactfully ask for bequests from your current donors.
J Campbell Social Marketing
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Here are 10 ways to build loyalty among your online community members through celebration and acknowledgement! Start by taking some time to plan out an acknowledgement and celebration strategy for your online community members. Instead of always thinking about the information we want to relay and making all marketing campaigns about us and our agenda, why not make it about our online community? Will you have a specific budget for celebrating community members?
iMarketSmart
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016
Although this letter is meant for the “community” (non-donors and donors), this is NOT how you should ever address people. Dear University of Maryland community: In late 2006, the University of Maryland publicly launched the $1 billion Great Expectations campaign. The post How NOT to write a letter to your supporter community appeared first on MarketSmart | . Here’s an old letter from my alma mater.
J Campbell Social Marketing
MARCH 23, 2020
These are your community members, your donors, the people who make your work possible. The post How to Communicate with Your Donors, Members, and Online Community Right Now – #NPCOVID19 appeared first on marketing for the modern nonprofit. I’ve been thinking about you. I want you to be safe. You ARE social distancing, right? Just checking. Many of you have reached out asking me what to do RIGHT NOW. What to post on social media? Should we even post?
A Small Change
MAY 23, 2011
We are all looking for the secret sauce in reaching out to our communities whether it is the perfect language in your next solicitation letter or the call to action at your next gala. Unless you have a great referrals program and your board members and friend do a really good job of introducing you to the community it is hard to just meet new major donors. I have been amazed at the value of engaging and being connected in your community.
Social Media Bird Brain
JANUARY 15, 2009
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JUNE 1, 2016
In this episode , we discuss: Social media is about being your authentic self and building your community. **The The goal for getting on social media (from a marketing standpoint) is to create a dynamic, engaged community of people. Social media marketing is using online tools to build a community and engage with your people where they are.” – @JuliaCSocial. “It
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NOVEMBER 12, 2013
Today I am hosting the #Commbuild Twitter chat and the topic is creative ways to celebrate online community members. Here are 10 ideas and ways to celebrate, acknowledge and reward your online community members for being there for you and for being awesome! Start by taking some time to plan out an acknowledgement and celebration strategy for your online community members: 1) Shift your focus. Will you have a specific budget for celebrating community members?
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
SEPTEMBER 30, 2015
When I talk to community-based nonprofits that serve local or regional areas about content marketing or thought leadership, I often hear excuses like, “We aren’t the experts. The national groups are. Why would anyone listen to us about this issue, when we just serve this little corner of the world?” ” While national groups may have easier access to national data or trends, it doesn’t mean that people trust them more, or what to hear from them rather than you.
A Small Change
AUGUST 26, 2009
It is important as you develop and grow your online community that you have an intentional culture. Create some kind of opportunity for your community to engage you online via a comment box, forum, or Facebook page. When you are creating an online community, you want to think about your audience this way too. Related posts: Question: Building Community Online Strategy: Capital Campaign Interview Online Fundraising is Hard Online Giving Thoughts.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
JANUARY 24, 2017
Engaging our community to keep people inspired by and active in our work. “Engaging our community” is the #1 nonprofit communications goal overall. Over 70% of nonprofits working in Other Public Benefit Research or Advocacy; Environment and Animals; and Human Services, Housing, Food, and Jobs said community engagement was a high or essential priority for 2017 (left side of the graph).
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SEPTEMBER 15, 2015
Engaging Your Nonprofit Community Through Storytelling & Social Media from Julia Campbell – J Campbell Social Marketing. The post Engaging Your Nonprofit Community Through Storytelling & Social Media appeared first on JCSM. Here are the slides from my presentation this morning to the People’s United Nonprofit Consortium on the topic of nonprofit storytelling and social media. Enjoy!
Non Profit Marketing 360
JULY 5, 2012
Advocacy Cause Marketing Civics Climate Change Community Environment Fundraising Greening Marketing Media Review Nonprofit Politics Public Media relationships Reviews Social Media Technology advocacy communication Copenhagen OneClimate OneWorld Online Communities Social network Social networking serviceOf course those who are engaged in the pressing issues of environmental degradation and global warming want to reach out to audiences as wide as possible.
A Small Change
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Who would get excited about all of us together starting an online community where we promote each other’s online fundraising? Here are a couple of ideas that I’m thinking we could offer if together we decided to create this community. Ok, so I’m getting excited about a new idea. Would you be willing to commit to comment and vote for each other to win/raise money for your organization? Online fundraising can be really hard especially when you’re first getting started.
Non Profit Marketing 360
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Blogs Cause Marketing Communications Community Dashboards eNewsletter How-to Marketing Media Review Nonprofit Public Media Public Relations Resource Reviews Site Administration Social Media Software Review Technology Charitable organization communication Facebook Google Non-profit organization Nonprofit organization Online Communities Pinterest Social network TwitterWe introduced Scoop.it
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JULY 20, 2009
How many of you view fundraising as community building? Do you partner with your donors to provide them opportunities to engage their friends and community in your cause? There are more and more opportunities through social media to engage our donor communities and I’m curious if you’ve had a chance to do just that? Have you built annual giving programs that allow your donors to have conversations with you about what their money is doing?
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
I’m taking part in the virtual book tour that Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer are doing to explore concepts from Open Community: a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. Kivi: What the heck is an “Open Community?”. Your Open Community is your people who are bonded by what your organization represents and who care enough to talk to each other (hopefully about you!) Kivi: How does Open Community tie into nonprofit marketing and communications?
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
Beth Ann Spiegel. In this guest post, Beth Ann Spiegel shares a great example of what can happen when you really listen to your supporters and get to know your target audiences better. ~Kivi. Guest Post by Beth Ann Spiegel, Fund Development and Communications Associate of The Arc of Atlantic County. As nonprofit marketers, we can all probably relate to the situation Alice finds herself in during the first two chapters of Alice in Wonderland.
Non Profit Marketing 360
DECEMBER 20, 2011
The folks at Glynn Devins Marketing have shared a keynote address that traces a case study they did with a local (Kansas) retirement community demonstrating the success of a drive on Facebook to increase ‘Likes’ and to offer donations as ever more people share their contact with that retirement community. Outreach to older Americans through social media might have once seemed a bit like trying to create an oasis in a desert: a great deal of effort lost in the sand.
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Rather than focusing on just revenue, your nonprofit organization should be focusing on building relationships with your donors and expanding your engagement with your community. . Bring your nonprofit’s fundraising success to new heights by focusing on these 5 ways to expand community engagement: Donor Communication. Community Events. Community Drives. Think of pursuing your mission and engaging your community as twin sides of the same core goal.
Social Marketing and Social Change
AUGUST 23, 2011
These neighborhoods are described as ones in which improved educational and developmental, commercial, recreational, physical and social assets are sustained by local leadership and lead to improved well-being and community quality-of-life. The idea of using social marketing to change neighborhoods and communities may seem absurd to people who believe that social marketing is ONLY about behavior change (or worse yet, using social media).
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OCTOBER 14, 2009
If you’re trying to organization and mobilize people to get things done in your community, I’ve got a couple of resources for you. Here are two documents from the Center for Community Change. . “Funding Community Organizing: Social Change Through Civic Participation&#. “Untapped: How Community Organizers Can Develop and Deepen Relationships with Major Donors and Raise Big Money&#.
Getting Attention
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
Historically, the school has done a great job opening itself up to the community (and building a strong base of support) via frequent free or low-charge concerts at Curtis and other cultural venues throughout the city. Recently, in response to the Knight Foundation’s Random Acts of Culture program, Curtis students have been bringing their music to the community—performing in parks, Ikea, Starbucks, Barnes & Noble and other venues.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
SEPTEMBER 19, 2018
Join us TOMORROW for a BRAND NEW WEBINAR that will show you how to do all of that and more: Beyond Opens and Clicks: Maintaining a Healthy Email List and Re-Engaging Your Community. The post How to Maintain a Healthy Email List and Re-Engage Your Community appeared first on Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog. Maintaining a healthy email list is essential to running an effective email marketing or fundraising program.
Non Profit Marketing 360
MAY 2, 2012
A community garden in Montreal, Canada (Photo credit: Wikipedia). But with spring comes new buds, rebirth, baseball, and the opportunity to establish that community garden that you and your neighbors have been talking about all winter. The University of Missouri Extension Program has released one of the best guides we have ever seen about getting your community garden out of the dreams of you and your neighbors and getting it into the ground for everyone to enjoy.
Diva Marketing Blog
JULY 4, 2014
It’s a community experience where generations of family and friends often walk together to celebrate life. The brand can create a framework but it is the community who builds community. In the wee hours of the morning traffic challenged Peachtree Street in Buckhead (Atlanta) experiences a few quiet hours before the mad rush hour/s begin. But not on the Fourth of July.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
OCTOBER 26, 2010
I met Elizabeth Hundley Finley, the development and communications manager for the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina , a couple of weeks ago at an AFP workshop I presented. She told me the story of how she recently changed her Twitter handle and her approach to how she used Twitter and I was so impressed with her deft maneuvering that I asked Elizabeth to share her story with you. Guest Post by Elizabeth Hundley Finle y.
The Agitator
JUNE 5, 2012
If you go in looking to engage, interact and build up a community of people who are interested in your mission/brand, then down the road you have a better chance of successfully running a fundraising campaign.” How will you help your community? What are the guidelines for your community manager? That’s the mantra recommended by social media strategist and blogger Ephraim Gopin in his recent Fundraising Success article, Attention!
Social Media Bird Brain
OCTOBER 14, 2010
Last week my time was completely eaten up by a event for a small nonprofit I volunteer for, which was why there was no new post. The event came together like a couple of rain-swollen rivers at a confluence. I was in charge of printed materials and signage and when I’ve done this stuff in the past, I generally have a few weeks to get it all together. This time, I pretty much got my marching
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MAY 24, 2016
Engaging Your Library Community Through Storytelling and Social Media from Julia Campbell – J Campbell Social Marketing. Participants will learn why storytelling is so vital to a successful nonprofit marketing and fundraising strategy, and how they can use their organization’s stories to grow support and engage communities. The post Engaging Your Library Community Through Storytelling and Social Media appeared first on JCSM.
Mission Minded
AUGUST 15, 2018
Recent articles in the New York Times and Fast Company about the excesses of some Donor Advised Funds point to a likely new reality for community foundations: that when a more reform-minded Congress is next seated, new rules will likely be put in place that will dramatically change the landscape for community foundations. The post 3 Things Your Community Foundation Should Communicate Now appeared first on Mission Minded.
CrowdRise
AUGUST 7, 2019
In the nonprofit event world, email communication is still king in driving interest to your fundraising events, ticket sales and registrations, or getting supporters excited about supporting your cause. Marketing CrowdRise Updates
Non Profit Marketing 360
APRIL 6, 2012
She founded the Ignited Online Fundraising Community and is author of the forthcoming book, Withism’s from Lori: Boldness, Clarity and Wisdom for Fundraising Professionals Making a Difference. NPM360: I’m particularly interested in your online fundraising community. Through a monthly webinar, an e-newsletter that I share with that community, or some email exchanges, they get support, they get listened to, they get new tips and tools.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
AUGUST 6, 2014
On this blog and in her webinars and book, Kivi talks about how you should try to become your community’s favorite nonprofit because research has shown that people give two-thirds of their charitable donations each year to one favorite charity. One of the ways you become their favorite is by providing your community with great content that they keep coming back for. Here are some tips for creating a well-balanced diet of great content your community looks forward to: 1.
Public Sector Marketing 2.0
MAY 28, 2009
crowd sourcing initiative that I always use in my presentations, has just launched a new initiative called Apps for Democracy “Community Edition&#. Citizens get to submit their community improvement ideas in real-time and vote using this insights portal. Apps For Democracy Community Edition from Peter Corbett on Vimeo.
Social Media Bird Brain
JULY 1, 2010
Cover of The Fly [Blu-ray]When I was in high-tech I was a technical writer/editor, project manager and (often) software tester. Because of this background, I have a habit of thinking that the place to start with stakeholder engagement is with education. If I just do the right job of educating the stakeholders on the challenges,they'll be better prepared to support the team's efforts. When I.
Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog
JULY 6, 2011
Layla Fry, director of communications for Southwest Key Programs , emailed me this question: “My organization is interested in merging the now separate functions of fundraising and communications into a ‘Community Engagement Team’ as you recommended in your book. Many people mistakenly think the book is about social media, but it’s actually much more about this idea of breaking down the silos in our organizations and working toward community engagement.
Fundraising Coach
MARCH 5, 2014
A few months after I wrote the book Google+ for Nonprofits , Google+ released a new feature called "Communities." In communities, everyone sees each others posts and comments, giving much more opportunity for people to build stronger connections. When I invited him to do a primer on Communities for Google+, he ended up writing a much longer post! You can read the full post at Google+ for Your Nonprofit Marketing Mix: Profile, Page, & Community. Community.
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