Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Got nonprofit email newsletter questions? Do I have to do a nonprofit email newsletter? Give Your Newsletter a Reason to Live Are You Pretending that People Really Want Your E-Newsletter? Do I Have to Keep Producing This Crappy Newsletter? Should I send the email newsletter to our whole list? What to PUT in Your Newsletter Another Brilliant Marketing Idea You Can Steal What should an email newsletter look like? Nonprofit Email Newsletters

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

I’ve just pulled some preliminary data about how often nonprofits say they will mail their newsletters, and of course, it depends on whether you talking print or email. Send Your Email Newsletter at Least Monthly. But 32% say they won’t send a print newsletter at all.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 6, 2017

We are getting ready for our next Nonprofit Marketing Accelerator – Updating Your Community: Integrating E-Newsletters and Social Media. What’s Your Newsletter’s Purpose in Life? Others write donor-centric newsletters and DO use it as a fundraising tool.

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Wild Woman Fundraising

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

I love nonprofit newsletters. They have TWO newsletter editors. And this newsletter was the pits! Get ready for a brutally honest nonprofit newsletter critique. I am on their mailing list and I get these paper newsletters that are… SO BORING.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 26, 2017

You or your team are regularly producing content — in this case, an email newsletter — that you know isn’t any good. Yes, please, for everyone’s sake, stop producing your crappy newsletter. . What would a great newsletter look like?

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JULY 26, 2012

Is the classic nonprofit newsletter still relevant? What changes have you made, or what changes are you seeing or recommending, in nonprofit newsletters — in print and online? E-Newsletters Nonprofit Communications Print Newsletters

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 8, 2013

E-Newsletters Trends 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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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 29, 2019

Today I am sharing the internal newsletter used by Community Partners in LA. Lauren Kay, director of communications, shared this with me about their newsletter: Lauren Kay “We’ve been growing and now have a staff of 42.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 7, 2015

Email newsletters consistently rank among the top 3 when we ask nonprofits what their most important communications channels in our annual trends report survey. You also spend more time on creating email newsletter articles than most other types of content.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JUNE 21, 2016

Puzzling over what makes really good newsletter content, especially in email? . Make your newsletter more Personal by. Make your newsletter more Useful by. Make your newsletter more Timely by. How do you make your newsletter more PUT: personal, useful and timely?

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Wild Woman Fundraising

JUNE 3, 2014

But here’s why you should continue your nonprofit newsletter this summer. Are you frustrated that few people give through your e-newsletter? If you aren’t getting a lot of newsletter donations now, there’s a reason for that.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 27, 2012

Thanks to all of you who took our survey this month on nonprofit newsletters. I’ve shared some of the results already in posts on how social media is influencing newsletters and how often you should send email newsletters to supporters. Print Newsletters.

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EveryAction

MARCH 29, 2018

Just ten years ago, nonprofit newsletters were the go-to channel for collecting donations. Here are six reasons why you should rethink your email newsletter. After all your hard work, it’s a bummer to know that not many people are even reading your newsletter in the first place.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Earlier this summer, I suggested what to PUT in your newsletter — content that is Personal, Useful and Timely. How you think about your newsletter comes through to your supporters right there at the sign-up form on your website. E-Newsletters

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 8, 2012

When I first started working in nonprofit communications, the job was really all about the newsletter. The nonprofit newsletter, first in print and then in email, was the mainstay of communications between the nonprofit and its supporters. Is the nonprofit newsletter still all that? .

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Getting Attention

APRIL 19, 2016

Take the fantastic e-newsletter produced by DC Central Kitchen (DCCK), the most vibrant, innovative food distribution and meal recycling program I know. How does your email newsletter to keep your people up-to-date, connected, and active?

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I asked for your thoughts on how your newsletter has changed , including how your organization’s use of social media has affected your newsletter, whether print or online. ” “We use social media to share more frequent updates than in our newsletter.

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EveryAction

APRIL 6, 2015

Distributing a regular newsletter requires a lot: curation, content creation, and then there’s capturing the attention of your audience despite inbox overcrowding. marketing open rates newsletter

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 14, 2015

Does your donor newsletter cost more to send than it brings in? That’s a pretty common trait among donor newsletters, but it’s not the idea of the donor newsletter that’s wrong – it’s how you’re approaching it that’s wrong.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 31, 2012

Yesterday, I hosted the August edition of the Nonprofit Blog Carnival on nonprofit newsletter trends. In my many varied internship experiences over the past year, I have become quite friendly with the non-profit newsletter. Antoinette Siu.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

At the end of September, we redesigned our weekly email newsletter to include more white space and smaller blocks of text. We use MailChimp for all our newsletters. Here is their old newsletter: Email newsletter before the redesign. E-Newsletters

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Do you think your email newsletter stinks? Stop treating your newsletter this way! Your organization’s email newsletter has the potential to be a communications powerhouse! You just need to know the strategies, tactics, and design options that make awesome email newsletters. Register now to learn everything you need to know about successful email newsletters.

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Ann Green

MARCH 12, 2019

A newsletter can be a great way to engage with your donors, but the key word here is can. Unfortunately, not very much because most donor newsletters can be used as a cure for insomnia. It’s possible to create an engaging newsletter your donors will want to read. Here are a few ways to create a better nonprofit newsletter. A print newsletter can be a good investment. I think you’ll have more success if you can do both print and electronic newsletters.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 13, 2014

Sarah recently went through our communications director mentoring program and shared the changes her schoolmade to their email newsletter as well asthe feedback she got from the parents at her school. Here is the updated design: What might the next evolution of the newsletter include?

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Wild Woman Fundraising

DECEMBER 21, 2015

I’ve seen so many bad nonprofit newsletters. Their newsletter is ALWAYS interesting, and ALWAYS full of useful advice, even when the topic may seem dry or hopeless (like bee colony collapse). I’ve included an example from the Smithsonian e-newsletter as well.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 4, 2011

Just how valuable is the content in your nonprofit’s newsletter? Many nonprofits include a newsletter as a member or donor benefit, and therefore don’t send it to others. Look at the content you are putting in your newsletter.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

APRIL 3, 2013

Fundraising Nonprofit Communications Print NewslettersWe'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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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JANUARY 23, 2013

E-Newsletters Nonprofit Communications nptech Professional Development Publication Management Social Networking timeWe'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.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In two weeks Tom Ahern joins us for a brand-new e-clinic called Donor Newsletters That Raise More Money. Below is a sample of what he will be discussing with nonprofits during the 5+ hours of training and newsletter coaching during the e-clinic. A newsletter isn’t an ask.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

JULY 21, 2015

We love “Before and After” posts, so I jumped at the chance to get Lindsay Ackerman to share about Mission India’s recent e-newsletter format change. The same day I went back to the drawing board, recreating the e-newsletter from scratch — with a one-column template.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

AUGUST 30, 2012

Welcome to this month’s edition of the Nonprofit Blog Carnival , where we are looking at trends in nonprofit newsletters. Shari at VolunteerMatch shares the email newsletter overhaul they recently embarked on, including a reader survey. How often you should send email newsletters.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MAY 30, 2017

Thinking of axing your donor newsletter because it costs more than it’s worth? It’s not the idea of the donor newsletter that’s wrong – it’s how you’re approaching it that’s wrong.

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iMarketSmart

MAY 13, 2019

Too often planned giving newsletters are written by lawyers and the lawyers at nonprofits think they are just dandy. Your planned giving newsletter is designed to educate people about planned gifts, right? Let’s suppose you decided that 10,000 people should get your newsletter.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MAY 31, 2016

Are you just breaking even (or losing money) with your donor newsletter? That’s a pretty common trait among donor newsletters, but it’s not the idea of the donor newsletter that’s wrong – it’s how you’re approaching it that’s wrong.

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Ann Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Many nonprofit organizations use a newsletter as a way to engage their donors, but the opposite is happening. That’s because most donor newsletters can be used as a cure for insomnia. You can create an engaging newsletter your donors will want to read.

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Wild Woman Fundraising

AUGUST 21, 2012

They need to stay on top of, for example, the best ways to write e-newsletters. How Nonprofit E-Newsletters are Changing originally appeared on Wild Woman Fundraising on August 21, 2012. They aren’t. Nonprofit enewsletters aren’t changing.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 23, 2012

Well, it’s time to fix what’s broken with your newsletter. Yep, without even seeing it, I can tell you that there are very likely some things you need to change with your print or email newsletter. I’ve heard from many donors that they don’t even look at newsletters anymore, even if it comes from their favorite nonprofit. Yep, nonprofits are sending out selfish newsletters. Newsletter

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 23, 2012

Well, it’s time to fix what’s broken with your newsletter. Yep, without even seeing it, I can tell you that there are very likely some things you need to change with your print or email newsletter. I’ve heard from many donors that they don’t even look at newsletters anymore, even if it comes from their favorite nonprofit. Yep, nonprofits are sending out selfish newsletters. Newsletter

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Non Profit Marketing 360

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

If you’ve ever wondered whether your printed or email newsletter really does you any good, you’re in good company. There are pieces on newsletter overhauls, why newsletters don’t work, why newsletters are still valuable, and what donors really want.

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J Campbell Social Marketing

JUNE 25, 2014

I receive a lot of email newsletters – from nonprofit organizations, from businesses and from consultants. This was mostly due to lack of time to read all of them, but it was also due to the fact that most email newsletters are just plain awful.

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Turns out that the current name of the e-newsletter is . ”E-Newsletter.” I do have a ton of nonprofit e-newsletters in my inbox called “E-Newsletter” so it’s not like that’s a horrible thing. I don’t know what MetroWest Health Foundation should call its newsletter, but here is how I would work through the decision. Why do people want to get the newsletter in the first place?

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Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

MARCH 9, 2016

Trying to improve the open rates for your email newsletters? You can try changing up your content, your format, your subject lines, your frequency, and even who the newsletter comes from. Or, you can change who receives your newsletter. E-Newsletters Measuring Success

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