Reasons to plan your nonprofit organization’s stories well in advance

What does your storytelling plan look like? Is it documented – perhaps something you share with your colleagues? Is it in your head? Do you have a storytelling plan? If you’re like many nonprofit communicators, you have no shortage of stories to...

How your website relates to Google Grants: Part 2

This is the second installment of our two-part series on how your website can affect your Google Ad Grant. Read part one on website compliance here.  The Google Ad Grant Program gives eligible nonprofits $10,000 per month in free in-kind advertising to fund...

How to increase your nonprofit’s donor or member engagement 10X by thinking like a tech startup

So you want to grow your member engagement? That's good, but question is, where should you start? We want to give you some simple and proven marketing methods that are widely used by technology companies but are not as common...

The Small Nonprofit Podcast: Organic social media with Brock Warner

Social media is one of those things that almost everyone has, but very few use well. On today’s podcast, we invited Brock Warner, fundraiser and author of the book From the Ground Up: Digital Fundraising for Nonprofits, to walk us through...

What’s really causing your “Zoom Fatigue”?

Spending our workday at a computer isn’t something new. So why is it that talking to people online is burning us out? If you’re an educator, manager, coach, advisor, or anyone else who has made the switch to remote working...

Get Real: 3 shifts to help your nonprofit stand out in 2021

There’s no sugar-coating it: Nonprofits struggled in 2020. If you were like the rest of the organizations in the sector, you probably felt like you were in the the pilot's seat on an airplane, constantly adjusting your course and constantly...

Spotlight on social media: Social media analytics

This post is part of Spotlight on Social Media Strategies, a new series designed to help you make the most of the changing landscape of social media. Be sure to check out our other posts in the series, Performing a...

Spotlight on social media: Understanding platform algorithms

This post is part of Spotlight on Social Media Strategies, a new series designed to help you make the most of the changing landscape of social media. Be sure to check out our other posts in the series, Performing a...

The Small Nonprofit Podcast: Embracing advocacy with Cathy Taylor

Advocacy is in the DNA of our sector. Every day, whether it’s a front line social agency, or an arts organization, nonprofits are doing great advocacy work at the community level.  How can we as a sector lift each other...

Spotlight on social media: Scheduling content with Later

This post is part of Spotlight on Social Media Strategies, a new series designed to help you make the most of the changing landscape of social media. Be sure to check out our other posts in the series, Performing a Social...