Nonprofit organizations are managing to carry out sophisticated public relations programming that cultivates relationships with their key audiences. Their public relations challenges, however, have routinely been understudied. Budgetary and staffing restraints often limit how these organizations carry out their fundraising, public awareness and activism efforts, and client outreach. This volume explores a range of public relations theories and topics important to the management of nonprofit organizations, including crisis management, communicating to strengthen engagement online and offline, and recruiting and retaining volunteer and donor support.

Nonprofit organizations are managing to carry out sophisticated public relations programming that cultivates relationships with their key audiences. Their public relations challenges, however, have routinely been understudied. Budgetary and staffing restraints often limit how these organizations carry out their fundraising, public awareness and activism efforts, and client outreach. This volume explores a range of public relations theories and topics important to the management of nonprofit organizations, including crisis management, communicating to strengthen engagement online and offline, and recruiting and retaining volunteer and donor support.

Non-profit organizations (NPOs) across the world are facing criticism alongside approbation. In order for NPOs to effectively support their causes, they require public trust. The editors of this book have persuaded PR experts from the UK and around the world, from a variety of PR specialisms operating across different organizational forms, to share their knowledge and experience. These contributions are scaffolded with authoritative academic and practical advice, as well as solutions. The book starts with foundations that underpin communications for causes. These include arguments that support the importance of non-profits in civil society; lessons in corporate governance; and a new approach to issues management. PR planning subjects tailored, or specific, to the sector include: strategic global communications planning, agile digital communications; branding internal communications and the securing of meaningful outcomes. Corporate partnerships are examined with a new ‘Fit to Partner Test’ and consideration of the mandated corporate social responsibility (CSR) in India, corporate volunteering in Brazil, and CSR in South Africa. Relations between governments and non-profits are also considered, both generally and with a particular focus on China. Communicating Causes looks at effective strategy and practice of PR in the modern non-profit. Including forewords by both John Grounds and Jon Snow, the expert perspectives offered in this book provide valuable support to current and future communicators.

Learn how to strategically execute public relations assignments! In Using Public Relations Strategies to Promote Your Nonprofit Organization, you will explore an easy-to-follow explanation on why nonprofit groups must take a more business-like approach in their communications. You will also discover instructions on how to make newsletters, annual reports, speaker's bureaus, and board selection easy yet effective. As a marketing, public relations or development professional, you will gain effective public relations tools that are within your established budget parameters. Public relations expertise is becoming extremely important to the survival of nonprofit organizations as more and more nonprofits compete for dollars. Using Public Relations Strategies to Promote Your Nonprofit Organization recognizes that nonprofit professionals may wear many different hats and may have very limited public relations or marketing training. Therefore, with Using Public Relations Strategies to Promote Your Nonprofit Organization, you will find that even a novice communicator will be able to perform marketing and public relations tasks in an effective, strategic manner. Some of the areas you will explore include: adopting a business strategy step-by-step guide to creating your annual report step-by-step guide to creating your nonprofit newsletter how to set up an effective speaker's bureau, strategically market your speaker's bureau, and monitor its effectiveness in generating revenue for your nonprofit organization writing speeches to promote your nonprofit organization using audiovisual aids and nonverbal communication in your speeches selecting and organizing a board of directors board of directors job description, recruiting and retention Using Public Relations Strategies to Promote Your Nonprofit Organization explains why you must take a more business like approach to public relations write nonprofit groups and assists the novice public relations specialist with executing basic PR tasks that are pertinent to an organization's profits. You will gain step-by-step guidance on steering your nonprofit organization to financial success.

The revised and updated edition of Promoting Issues and Ideas shows you how to develop and enhance your organization's public relations plan. This book -- equally valuable for old hands and newcomers to the field -- covers essential aspects of nonprofit public relations. You will learn to create informational materials; exploit public speaking events; expand media coverage; orchestrate special events; manage public relations crises; and much more! The revised edition also features information on new communication technologies available to nonprofits.

Help your nonprofit organization keep up with the competition!As the competition for funding among nonprofit organizations becomes more intense, so does the need to develop survival strategies that focus limited resources in the most effective ways. Marketing Communications for Local Nonprofit Organizations: Targets and Tools presents proven methods for effectively reaching the target markets essential to your organization’s future. This practical guidebook is divided into two easy-to-use sections: “Targets” details how to develop employees and volunteers, form alliances with for-profit organizations, and develop social entrepreneurship programs; “Tools” explains how to make maximum use of communications and media (advertising, direct marketing, public relations), fundraising, and Internet and e-commerce potential.Marketing Communications for Local Nonprofit Organizations: Targets and Tools also provides expert guidance on: multimedia marketing, including Web conferencing event planning and promotion branding and positioning promotional products tax, legal, cultural, and financial issues and much more!Marketing Communications for Local Nonprofit Organizations: Targets and Tools is an essential handbook for nonprofit organizations as they struggle against reduced government funding and a rapidly changing environment. Educators and students will also find the book invaluable as a how-to marketing guide based on effective methods and proven strategies.

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