Getting Attention

APRIL 9, 2012

This RFP is focused on development organizations but I hope more funding will follow from Gates and other foundations, as a recognition of how crucial engagement is to achieving organizational and programmatic goals. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a call for communications proposals to “help change the narrative on foreign aid.” At last—funding specifically directed to communications!

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 17, 2016

I just couldn’t get enough of presidential politics in the past few weeks, so for the next #NPComm Showdown, let’s look at the communications strategies of foundations started by two political powerhouses. The Clinton Foundation’s approach to the annual report is filled with best practices.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MAY 10, 2011

In our latest interview in our series on Junction C: Where Creating and Curating Meet Content and Conversation , Jereme Bivins, the social media manager for the Foundation Center, discusses his approach to working with five regional offices across the U.S.,

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Fundraising Coach

APRIL 18, 2016

More importantly, she's even worked in a foundation that gave out grants. She goes into much more detail in The Nonprofit Academy training Tips & Tricks from the Foundation Side of Grant Seeking. Tips & Tricks from the Foundation Side of Grant Seeking.

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Selfish Giving

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Today on CauseTalk Radio , Megan and I talk to Christine Riley Miller , Senior Director of Corporate Social Responsibility & Corporate Foundation for Dunkin' Brands , about the company's new, re-branded foundation, the Joy in Childhood Foundation.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 13, 2013

We've Moved! Update your Reader Now. This feed has moved to: [link] Update your reader now with this changed subscription address to get your latest updates from us. We've Moved! Update your Reader Now.

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Fundraising Coach

AUGUST 24, 2012

The Lance Armstrong Foundation faces a rocky phase despite all the good it’s doing in educating on cancer, helping raise awareness about prevention, and even giving inspiration to those fighting the battle. The Foundation needs to get ahead of the story.

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Mission Minded

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Private Foundations don’t have the same reasons as nonprofits do to build a strong brand. Foundations already have money. Recently, one of our clients, who serves as the head of a family foundation, said to me, “Grantmaking is the […]. Blog branding Foundations fundraising Let’s face it. What does it matter what anyone thinks about them? Plenty, it turns out.

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DonorDigital

MARCH 20, 2012

Donordigital joins in celebrating with its client National Parkinson Foundation in reaching its 10,000th Facebook fan. Donordigital worked with National Parkinson Foundation to run a Facebook Ad campaign with the goal of recruiting 10,000 new Facebook fans.

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Mission Minded

JULY 28, 2015

If you are a foundation planning to phase out an initiative, knowing how to leave grantees—and the larger community—feeling ignited rather than deflated is probably on your mind. You’ve spent the last several years investing in and coaching your grantees, and it’s time to transition the leadership and let the grantees take the reins. How […]. Blog Nonprofit Communications Nonprofit Messaging

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A. Fine Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The topic for this month’s Social Good Podcast is on the ways that foundation’s are using social media to support movement building. The guests are Suphatra Laviolette of the Marguerite Casey Foundation and Michael Smith of the Case Foundation.

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Cause Related Marketing

MARCH 13, 2012

The house was about 100 years old back then and the foundation was made of rock rather than concrete. I write this post from my home office in my basement, which is heated, well-lit and comfortable. The floor beneath my feet is carpeted. Had the basement lacked any of these features, we probably wouldn’t have bought this house. Such amenities are assumed. But as a college student I lived in one of those classic ‘pit’ kinds of apartments.

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Wild Woman Fundraising

JULY 14, 2011

In a recent Stanford Social Innovation review blog post , Paul Connolly talked about the new findings of the TCC group around the Packard Foundation’s grantees. I would like every single foundation reading this to understand this.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

APRIL 17, 2015

Meet Firecracker Foundation. On a day-to-day basis, The Firecracker Foundation works with survivors of childhood sexual trauma through long-term strategies of therapy, arts enrichment, and yoga practice. On a larger scale, however, The Firecracker Foundation is about community.

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iMarketSmart

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Every nonprofit organization needs more of two things: time and money. Okay, every organization (nonprofit or for-profit) could use more of those two resources.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 3, 2010

Foundationcenter.org is a similar resource, but offers information about grants from private foundations, public foundations, and corporations throughout the United States. Although there are many ways to search for funding sources, the Foundation Center and Grants.gov will give you access to a majority of the grant opportunities in the United States that could potentially fund your project. To search for foundation and private grant opportunities, follow these 3 steps.

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Seeking Grant Money Today

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The Foundation Center, the leading source of information about philanthropy worldwide, has launched an online learning community for the social sector. The Foundation Center, which maintains offices in Atlanta, Cleveland, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, has long been known as the premier resource for fundraisers and others seeking grants. The "Ask Us" link on each page connects visitors to expert assistance from Foundation Center staff via live chat or e-mail.

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Nonprofit Marketing Blog

MAY 12, 2011

We are a community foundation operating in a low wealth area. You want to show how your foundation relates to one person’s - or one group of people’s - deeply held emotional beliefs. You need to make your foundation relevant to each of these audiences, on their terms. Think of your community as the hero of your story - not your endowment or your foundation. I also read the words, “Building a charitable foundation for our community.&#

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A Small Change

JULY 22, 2009

Jolkona Foundation has some great ideas about how to measure donor impact. What inspired you to start the Jolkona Foundation? One to one” refers to the fact that all donations via the Jolkona Foundation website make a specific impact with which the individual donor can identify.

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J Campbell Social Marketing

MAY 8, 2017

Baldrick's Foundation The Greater Boston Food BankThere is a misguided argument that I have heard recently from nonprofits, as they prepare their fundraising appeals or their online marketing campaigns: There is no way we can pull the heartstrings like this when telling stories. .

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A. Fine Blog

JUNE 15, 2015

The title of this post is the title of a post written by Darren Walker announcing the future direction of the Ford Foundation. And how will these organizations be “partners” with the foundation? One of my most memorable experiences with my program officer from the Packard Foundation when I received my first grant from them. The history of foundations as “partners” with their grantees is a road littered with the corpses of good intentions gone bad.

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MAY 25, 2011

The intent of our report Connected Citizens: The Power, Peril and Potential of Networks , was to explore the role of networks in community life and how loose networks of individuals are affecting social change. . Recent rapid advances in digital media and technology have changed how people connect to information and how they connect to each other. People are moving from passive consumers to active users. This is also true among communities.

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Getting Attention

AUGUST 15, 2012

As the VP of Communications and Marketing at the Case Foundation, guest blogger Allie Burns is charged with spreading the word about the Foundation’s great work with the ultimate goal of mobilizing more people to make giving a part of their everyday lives.

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Getting Attention

JULY 24, 2012

Welcome to guest blogger Meghan Hurley, Special Events Intern at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a senior at Loyola University Maryland. . Congrats to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) for 40 years of persistent work to improve access to, and quality of, health care.

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J Campbell Social Marketing

MARCH 11, 2014

I’m speaking at the Essex County Community Foundation’s Institute for Trustees on March 22 , and the topic is “Online Marketing & Social Media: What a Board Member Needs to Know” If you’ve seen me speak, you know I cram in a ton of information into my sessions, and this one is just one hour. Marketing Nonprofits Social Media Strategy Checklist content marketing Essex County Community Foundation Institute for Trustees

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J Campbell Social Marketing

MARCH 4, 2014

4) United Nations Foundation – Her Day, Every Day. Infographics Marketing Nonprofits Amnesty International Compassion International infographics Movember nonprofit graphics nonprofit storytelling UN Foundation visual marketing Water Aid

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J Campbell Social Marketing

AUGUST 27, 2013

Baldrick’s Foundation at the Inspire / BIO Conference in July. Baldrick’s Foundation. Baldrick''s Foundation Case Study: How One Nonprofit Raised Thousands Using Facebook – Part 1. I first became aware of the St.

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J Campbell Social Marketing

APRIL 1, 2014

Baldrick''s Foundation wenham museum Is this the look you get when you bring up social media at your nonprofit? There is no doubt about it – social networking has changed the game in terms of how people communicate, share information and learn about new things in their lives.

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Wild Woman Fundraising

MAY 10, 2012

They came all the way from The SickKids Foundation in Toronto, Canada for the conference. Noelle: SickKids Foundation is my first foray into fundraising. Laura: I started my career at SickKids Foundation as an intern in the communications department. Get Schooled!

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J Campbell Social Marketing

MARCH 11, 2016

Baldrick’s Foundation contacted me to highlight some of the great strides the organization has taken in the area of social media fundraising. St Baldrick’s operates a foundation-wide content calendar and uses it for programming, marketing, fundraising, and PR efforts.

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Non Profit Marketing 360

JANUARY 24, 2013

Shot from a film sponsored by the A3 Foundation. According to their own site, “The A3 Fellows Program is the inaugural program for the foundation placing emerging artists with seasoned artists to learn and grow.

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Non Profit Marketing 360

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

But did you know the Verizon Foundation also supports such nonprofits and charities with grants in money, kind, and service? The Foundation focuses on issues pertaining to K-through-12 education, health care, and sustainability/environmentalism, so if your organization is involved in any of these fields, you should reach out and touch them (Er, wrong service. They stress the fact that the foundation will not support land or major hardware/software purchases.

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Wild Woman Fundraising

MAY 8, 2012

If you’re working at a community foundation, you might consider putting together something like this for your state, combining 2010 census data and google maps to show areas of greatest need. You’re working for a social services nonprofit. You’re writing a grant.

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Non Profit Marketing 360

OCTOBER 24, 2011

In our ongoing series on helping our readers find sources of grants and apply for them, we turn to the Gates Foundation, founded by Microsoft’s previous CEO, Bill Gates and his wife Melinda. In the public imagination, the good work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation goes a long way to erase all those terrible memories of Windows Millennium, Service Pack Y (incompatible with Service Pack X), and Blue Screens of Death.

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Non Profit Marketing 360

OCTOBER 24, 2011

In our ongoing series on helping our readers find sources of grants and apply for them, we turn to the Gates Foundation, founded by Microsoft’s previous CEO, Bill Gates and his wife Melinda. In the public imagination, the good work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation goes a long way to erase all those terrible memories of Windows Millennium, Service Pack Y (incompatible with Service Pack X), and Blue Screens of Death.

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Non Profit Marketing 360

MAY 22, 2012

Michael and Susan Dell established their foundation in 1999 in an effort to present their booming company as a corporate citizen. The efforts of the foundation are to multiply the work of Dell’s individual employees: Being a good corporate citizen is more than just writing a check to a nonprofit and checking ‘complete’ next to your external branding strategy. In all these cases, the foundation clearly wants to support the youth in the US and abroad.

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J Campbell Social Marketing

MAY 31, 2017

In conclusion, I feel strongly that if your small nonprofit has a great content foundation in place with a website, email, and blog, you can increase awareness of your programs and raise money for your organization.

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J Campbell Social Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2013

Baldrick’s Foundation uses social media to raise thousands of dollars and engage thousands of supporters. Baldrick’s Foundation website traffic – and a huge percentage of that is generated by the participants and Ambassadors, who are out there posting, tweeting and sharing every single day.

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Non Profit Marketing 360

JULY 17, 2012

In our ongoing periodic series on sources for grants, we have focused on foundations tied to the great tech companies of our day. In this installment we present a foundation not obviously linked to that sector of the economy, though in fact it is intimately entwined. Over the last decade-plus, the foundation has offered over $3 million to projects concerning education, health, the environment, and disaster relief (local and international).

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A Small Change

JULY 23, 2009

Yesterday your read about the motivation behind Jolkona Foundation and a little bit more about some what they are trying to accomplish with the ability to measure the impact of each donation. What is an example of the kind of partnerships you create with the Jolkona Foundation? For every gift that organization receives through Jolkona Foundation, they will send before-and-after photos of the person receiving that specific gift.

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