Marketing and Communications
Successful storytelling, engagement, and outreach is essential for a nonprofit organizations. Explore the art and science of effectively conveying your nonprofit’s mission, connecting with your audience, and amplifying your impact through strategic marketing and communication strategies.
Finding Your Voice As a Nonprofit
The nonprofit community is asking important questions: What is our responsibility to speak out on behalf of our staff, clients, and community?
Lide Haiti: Helping women and girls help Haiti
The Lidè Foundation provides instruction in the arts and literacy to over 550 adolescent girls at a dozen locations in rural Haiti.
Branching out: Raising more dollars by understanding donors’ differences
Broaden your fundraising tactics to be more inclusive of multigenerational giving. Employ technology to save time and resources.
First-Person Nonprofit: Making the Case (Statement!)
Alice Rossignol puts her pen to paper about a big professional first. She decided to leap – or maybe she got pushed.
Promoting a Worthy Cause? Don’t Miss These Six Ideas for Getting Exposure for Your Nonprofit
Ready to boost exposure for your work? Here’s six promotion ideas that should help get exposure for your nonprofit.
How to Schedule a Nonprofit Meeting: Point of Vu
Humor columnist Vu Le comments on the joys of meeting scheduling with The Official Rules for Scheduling Nonprofit Meetings.
How To Use Text Messaging for Nonprofit Outreach
Doug Plank of MobileCause explains the benefits of using text messaging to reach people for nonprofit outreach.
Social Media for Nonprofits: 6 Do’s and Don’ts
Sick of people telling you a hundred things your nonprofit should be doing with social media? Kaitlyn Trigger provides some dos and don’ts.
Stick With Old Media: Not Cool But it Works
In the age of social media, Holly Minch dares to defy the Twitter evangelists and make the case for the power of traditional print and radio.
America’s Dirtiest Job: Nonprofit Telemarketer?
Should telemarketers really be despised? Blue Avocado readers share their experiences making telemarketing calls for their nonprofits.