A nonprofit's real-world survival guide and nitty-gritty how-to handbook This down-to-earth book shows how to hack through the bewildering jungle of marketing options and miles-long to-do lists to clear a marketing path that's right for your organization, no matter how understaffed or underfunded. You'll see how to shape a marketing program that starts from where you are now and grows with your organization, using smart and savvy communications techniques, both offline and online. Combining big-picture management and strategic decision-making with reader-friendly tips for implementing a marketing program day in and day out, this book provides a simple yet powerful framework for building support for your organization's mission and programs. Includes cost-effective strategies and proven tactics for nonprofits An ideal resource for thriving during challenging times Fast, friendly, and realistic advice to help you navigate the day-by-day demands of any nonprofit Written by one of the leading sources of how-to info and can-do inspiration for small and medium-sized nonprofit organizations, Kivi Leroux Miller is,among other things, a communication consultant and trainer, and president of EcoScribe Communications and Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com.

The Nonprofit Communications Engine is a framework designed to help nonprofit leaders build, refine, and optimize their organization's ability to communicate effectively.

Communicate or die! That's what fundraising consultant and communications expert Jeff McLinden cautions nonprofit CEOs, development directors and marketing managers in this practical handbook. Designed to help you not only share your message to prospects and donors, but to engage them for long-term involvement with your cause, you'll learn dozens of critical principles and best practices for effective -- and profitable -- donor communications. What are the "power channels" that help you raise more money? How do you take best advantage of what's working in this hyper-competitive fundraising environment? How can you employ "cross-channel" marketing communications and new technologies to engage your stakeholders in meaningful "conversations" that raise more money? You'll learn the answers to these questions and, more importantly, learn how to apply them to your own nonprofit organization. With three decades of experience working for some of the largest and most well-known nonprofit organizations -- plus twenty years as a consultant, teacher and trainer -- McLinden reveals tools, tactics, and techniques that can help you create a more powerful, more effective and more profitable communications strategy. WIth the struggle for donor dollars becoming increasingly more competitive, you can't afford to limp along hoping your direct mail appeals and newsletters are going to do the job in keeping volunteers, members and donors actively engaged. "The Nonprofit Communications Handbook" will help you reach your critical fundraising objectives -- and help you keep your donors, partners and members engaged...for a LIFETIME!

Grow your nonprofit with tried and tested online and offline marketing techniques In the newly revised second edition of The Nonprofit Marketing Guide, CEO and founder of Nonprofit Marketing Guide LLC, Kivi Leroux Miller, delivers a step-by-step walkthrough of how to create an online and offline marketing program that will grow and scale with your organization. Written with the benefit of the author’s ten years of survey data from thousands of nonprofits and experience coaching hundreds of communications pros on nonprofit marketing, the book offers practical and cost-effective strategies you can implement immediately. You’ll discover: How to create realistic marketing strategies and communications plans for nonprofits of any size How to build and engage of community of supporters around your organization How to create and deliver powerful messaging that inspires action Bonus templates and worksheets in an online workbook for readers Whether you have any marketing or communications experience of not, The Nonprofit Marketing Guide will also earn a place in the libraries of all stakeholders in nonprofits who seek ways to help their organization grow organically.

This handbook brings together multidisciplinary and internationally diverse contributors to provide an overview of theory, research, and practice in the nonprofit and nongovernmental organization (NGO) communication field. It is structured in four main parts: the first introduces metatheoretical and multidisciplinary approaches to the nonprofit sector; the second offers distinctive structural approaches to communication and their models of reputation, marketing, and communication management; the third focuses on nonprofit organizations’ strategic communications, strategies, and discourses; and the fourth assembles campaigns and case studies of different areas of practice, causes, and geographies. The handbook is essential reading for scholars, educators, and advanced students in nonprofit and NGO communication within public relations and strategic communication, organizational communication, sociology, management, economics, marketing, and political science, as well as a useful reference for leaders and communication professionals in the nonprofit sector.

In the current economic climate, nonprofits need to focus on ways to stand out from the crowd, win charitable dollars, and survive the downturn. Effective, mission-focused communications can help organizations build strong identities, heightened reputations, and increased fundraising capability. Brandraising outlines a mission-driven approach to communications and marketing, specifically designed to boost fundraising efforts. This book provides tools and guidance for nonprofits seeking to transform their communications and marketing through smart positioning, branding, campaigns, and materials that leverage solid strategy and great creative, with a unique focus on the intersection of communications and fundraising.

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.