Presented by our partner IdeaEncore, a nonprofit resource center and a community of people who exchange information, provides insightful, easy-to-consume information shared by leaders in the nonprofit sector. What Makes for an Effective Nonprofit Leadership Development Program? – The Bridgespan Group (Free) Prioritization Toolkit - Partners for Change, Inc. ($10, or free for Partners for [...]
Do you have a communications plan? If so, do you use it? Is there more you can do to increase your visibility and make a difference? Welcome 2012 with a boost for your marketing and outreach work with this year’s first Media Maven. Join your nonprofit and activist colleagues for an engaging learning and networking opportunity.
Thursday, January 19th – 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
What: Webinar – Must Do Marketing for Nonprofit Leaders When: Tuesday, December 6 at 1 p.m. Description: Whether your organization is large, medium, or small, marketing is a crucial but often overlooked strategy for increasing your impact. While most nonprofit leaders know it’s integral to raising awareness, many haven’t built their organizations’ ability to connect [...]
Compassionate Communications changes our consciousness so that the habits of the past are replaced by the passion of the present. – Pan Vera Foundations of Compassionate Communications takes place on Saturday November 19th from 9 am – 6 pm in White River Junction. The purpose of the workshop is to: Free yourself from the effects [...]
We love the Pew Research Center’s regular email alerts and found this today. Just 18 months after the introduction of the iPad, a new Pew Research Center study details the way in which the tablet is creating a revolution in how people get their news. About one-in-ten Americans now own a tablet, and more than [...]
Thanks to our friend Brett Meyer of NTEN, for sharing the results of their 2011 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report. > Download the report here. Some Findings: more than half of nonprofits have no formal budget for commercial social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, making it all the more impressive that 30% of the [...]
Thanks to our dear friend Brett Meyer of NTEN, for sharing this with Common Good Vermont. Writing last month’s post about how NTEN differentiates between types of open rate made me think about the ways we’ve worked to boost our numbers. We’re on pace to deliver more than 1,000,000 messages in 2011, so our data [...]
When: Thursday, November 3, 2011 Time: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Location: Main Street Landing Film House. 60, Main Street Burlington, VT. Presented by Curve Trends Marketing, ww.CurveTrends.Com Description: It’s a given that social media is imperative to the life of your business. We understand that advertising plays a critical role in shaping our bottom line. Branding, multi-channel [...]
Thanks to our dear friend Annaliese Hoehling of NTEN, for sharing this with Common Good Vermont. What We Talk About When We Talk About Open Rates Every e-mail marketer worth her salt knows how to calculate an overall messaging open rate: messages opened ÷ messages delivered. It’s probably the easiest calculation you can make that [...]
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Commentary: Nonprofits Have a Great Story to Tell
Todd Cohen offered this commentary on Inside Philanthropy, a blog on philanthropy and nonprofit news and issues that appears in The Philanthropy Journal. A crucial task for nonprofits struggling in the broken economy is to do a much better job talking about the essential role they play serving people and places in need. Through the stories they [...]