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Compelling Communications for Nonprofits
Start developing communications materials for your nonprofit, with tips from Numa Communication’s easy to use Nonprofit Publications That Get Results: 6 Steps for Creating Highly Effective Marketing Collateral Regardless of Your Budget. They offer advice on how to develop and distribute pamphlets, newsletters and other publications that can help market your nonprofit. For developing a sleek, professional looking publication, Get Read: A guide to creating reader-friendly publications, from NewCitizen Books, offers great advice, even if you aren’t an expert in graphic design.
No matter the medium for your communications and marketing strategies, Tactical Technology Collective’s Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design will help you integrate compelling data visuals into any and all of your communications. If in-person or online presentations are part of your communications strategy, download Wholonomy Consulting’s popular e-book The Six Secrets of High Engagement Presentations ($15) or A Goodman’s Why Bad Presentations Happen to Good Causes.
A publication based your organizations programs and research can be a great tool for advocacy and effectively showcasing your organization’s accomplishments. Every Nonprofit’s Guide to Publishing ($17.99) from Nolo Press will take you step by step through creating magazine and newsletter publications and advice on how to use them for fundraising. For tips and advice on creating an e-book or book and publishing it, join Nonprofit Webinars and Dalya Massachi of Writing for Community Success for a free webinar, Indie Publishing for the Nonprofit Leader, tomorrow, October 24th at 3:00 pm Eastern time (12:00 pm Pacific time). And remember to make sharing on IdeaEncore part of your content marketing strategy for creating more impact.
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