You searched for work from hom - Nonprofit Marketing Guide (NPMG) https://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/ Helping nonprofit communicators learn their jobs, love their work, and lead their teams. Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:40:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Nonprofit Social Media and Newsletter Ideas for September 2024 https://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/nonprofit-social-media-and-newsletter-ideas-for-september/ https://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/nonprofit-social-media-and-newsletter-ideas-for-september/#respond Thu, 29 Aug 2024 16:14:49 +0000 https://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/?p=18185 Need social media and newsletter ideas for September? Then you are in the right place! You can also use these writing ideas for blog posts, videos and more. These writing ideas for September come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. Fill out the form below to get October’s prompts emailed to you [...]

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Need social media and newsletter ideas for September? Then you are in the right place! You can also use these writing ideas for blog posts, videos and more. These writing ideas for September come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. Fill out the form below to get October’s prompts emailed to you the week of September 4th.

On the Calendar

You’ll find events with specific dates on the shared Google Calendar.

9/02: Labor Day. Is your organization helping find jobs for those out of work? Interview a volunteer on how they juggle a career and volunteering.

9/06: Read a Book Day. Review a book that highlights your cause. Suggest books to your volunteers that will help them get fired up. (International Literacy Day is on the 8th)

9/08: Grandparents Day. If you work with seniors, do a photo spread of them with their grandchildren. Or have people who have lost their grandparents write letters to them.

9/09: National Boss/Employee Exchange Day. Swap roles with your boss (or vice versa) and document the day for Reels, TikTok, etc.

9/10: Swap Ideas Day. Find another nonprofit to collaborate with to share ideas on a common problem. Find a staff member who works in another area and ask them their thoughts on a problem your area has (like what should we include in our content).

9/12: National Day of Encouragement. Get those quotes ready and give your followers a boost of confidence. Or share how your clients have overcome the odds to show others they can do it too.

9/13: Positive Thinking Day. Share how you WILL eradicate the issues your cause faces. Or talk about toxic positive thinking as it relates to mental health issues.

9/22: Autumn Equinox. Relate the changing of the leaves or fall trends to your cause. Or just make fun of the pumpkin spice everything that’s coming.

9/25: National Comic Book Day. What comic book hero would stand for your cause? What villain would be against you? Can you compare these characters to real-life people in you organization? You can also create your own comic book hero!

9/28: Ask a Stupid Question Day. Is your organization one that’s hard to explain? Know some people who are embarrassed to admit they don’t know the answers? Do a top-ten list of stupid questions you have received. Or turn this idea upside down and take an “apathetic” question like “How can we possibly make a difference, so why bother?” and tell how you will.

September is also:

  • Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15th – October 15th)
  • National African Immigrant Heritage Month
  • National Preparedness Month
  • Baby Safety Month
  • Self Improvement Month
  • Classical Music Month
  • Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
  • Hunger Action Month
  • Ovarian Cancer Month
  • National Prostate Health Month
  • Pain Awareness Month
  • National Recovery Month
  • Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

Other Dates in September:

  • International Day of Charity is the 5th
  • International Literacy Day is the 8th
  • Stand Up to Cancer Day is the 13th
  • World Suicide Prevention Day is the 10th
  • 911 Remembrance Day is the 11th
  • International Day of Democracy is the 15th
  • Mexican Independence Day is the 16th
  • Talk Like a Pirate Day is the 19th
  • International Day of Peace is the 21st
  • Business Women’s Day in the 22nd
  • World Rivers Day is the 22nd
  • Native American Day is the 27th

Metaphor of the Month

This month’s metaphor is School. Think about classrooms, virtual learning, textbooks, a syllabus, principals, teachers, students, tests, desks, chalkboard, smartboards, recess, dress codes, subjects, computers, detention, field trips, homework, back-to-school shopping, and report cards.

How can you relate these things to your organization?

Pop Culture, Events, and News

This NFL season kick offs on the 5th.

The US Open for tennis will wrap up the 8th.

There is a Presidential Debate scheduled for the 10th.

The MTV Video Music Awards are the 11th.

The Emmy Awards are the 15th.

The 37th Hispanic Heritage Awards are on the 27th.

Oktoberfest in Germany happens as well as local fests in the US.

Movies coming out in September include Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Transformers One, Speak No Evil, The Killer’s Game, Megalopolis, The Wild Robot, Lee, and Never Let Go .

On streaming platforms, we have Apollo 12: Survival, Uglies, Wolfs, and Rez Ball.

TV Premieres include English Teacher, Last One Standing, Slow Horses, Tell Me Lies, The Perfect Couple, Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist, Power Book II: Ghost, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Selling Sunset, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Bob’s Burgers, Billionaire Island, Emily in Paris, The Old Man, How to Die Alone, Three Women, The Great North, Universal Basic Guys, My Brilliant Friend, Sister Wives, Tulsa King, Halloween Baking Championship, Dancing with the Stars, High Potential, Agatha All Along, The Golden Bachelorette, Survivor, Frasier, The Penguin, 60 Minutes, Matlock, Rescue HI-Surf, 9-1-1: Lonestar, Brilliant Minds, The Voice, Murder in a Small Town, Penelope, Chicago Fire, Med, and P.D., Grotesquerie, The Masked Singer, 9-1-1, Doctor Odyssey, Grey’s Anatomy, Hell’s Kitchen, Nobody Wants This, The Simpsons, and The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – The Book of Carol.

Source of the Month

Blog Round Up. Pick a topic related to your cause and create a blog post with links to recent articles, studies or blog posts.

If you would like these ideas sent to your inbox a month in advance, sign up for our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts. I send this email newsletter the first week of every month with prompts for the following month. For example, I will email the prompts for October around September 6th.

Sign up now to get prompts emailed to you in advance monthly.

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We love to see nonprofit communications teams grow! I always do a little dance in my chair when someone in our community says they’ve been approved to hire a new comms team member. But then the question becomes, what should that new communications hire do? How should we write that job description?

In other words, what’s the vision for how your nonprofit communications team should grow?

There’s no right or wrong answer, but there are a few ways to think about this.

Don’t Try to Clone Yourself

This is an easy mistake, especially if you’ve been working as a team of one for a while. You need another person like yourself!

But that’s a trap for you and the person you hire. They will never meet your expectations, and honestly, you probably won’t even be able to define those expectations well. It also robs you of the most significant benefits of growing your team: adding diverse skills and insights that will hopefully balance you out rather than trying to duplicate you.

Instead, Think of Additional Roles or Specialties

First, consider what you and any other team members already do well. Then, think about where you and any others hope to grow professionally. Then, consider what gaps that leaves in your team.

Next, consider whether these approaches make sense for your organization.

Hire By Communications Skills

Do you need someone who is good with words and can take on a lot of original writing and editing of work drafted by others? Is the amount of written work your organization produces overwhelming current staff?

Or do you need someone who is at home with visual communications, like photography, graphics, and video? We can all make do with tools like Canva, but it may be time to hire someone who really knows what they are doing and can produce much higher-quality design work faster than everyone else who has learned on the job.

Hire by Communications Channel Management

Do you need your new communications hire to understand email marketing from start to finish, for example? This person might need to know about email list building and segmentation, crafting good conversion copy for emails, and creating the right graphics, too. The same could be said for a media relations/PR position, which requires particular skills and relationships.

Hire by Roles on Projects

In other cases, you may be looking for someone to fill a role within a project management framework like MOCHA, RACI, or CALM. You may need more helpers or contributors to many different projects (more of a utility player), or you may need people who can lead projects and make final judgment calls.

Hire by Internal Service Lines

I’m not a huge fan of this approach because I think it often leads to too much fragmentation of the communications and marketing strategy. Still, you could also hire team members who work for the comms team but are essentially embedded within programmatic teams, too. So, if you serve both children and elders, you might have a team member who focuses on comms related to children’s programs and another who focuses on comms for programs serving elders.

Hire to Fill Gaps in the Marketing Strategy

Yet another approach would be to look at where your team is missing someone who understands and can implement work on a core part of your marketing strategy. For example, do you need people whose job is to focus on the people you are communicating with, such as market researchers, data managers, or “business” development folks? Do you need a brand manager? Or a content strategist who drives messaging decisions?

You can’t expect someone to do all the things. I hope this post helps you sort through your options!

Want more? Big Duck has helped many nonprofits grow their communications teams and shares advice on their blog. 

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]]> Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Stephanie Mlot https://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/day-in-the-life-of-a-nonprofit-communicator-stephanie-mlot/ Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:17:32 +0000 https://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/?p=19505 Stephanie Mlot I am so excited to bring you a brand new submission for our Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator series! This series lets you describe your workday in your own words. I would love to start sharing your days again so submit your day by filling out the form at the [...]

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Stephanie Mlot

I am so excited to bring you a brand new submission for our Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator series! This series lets you describe your workday in your own words. I would love to start sharing your days again so submit your day by filling out the form at the end of this post.

Stephanie’s Bio

After 15 years working as a journalist, I joined the third-sector marketing world in 2023 and haven’t looked back since.

She works at both home and in the office and this is their typical day:

Before 8:00 am: My alarm goes off at 8 a.m. On days I’m heading to the office, I allow myself no more than five minutes before rolling out of bed to get ready. The days my commute is three feet to the home office, I relax under the covers a bit longer.

8:00 am to 10:00 am: I usually arrive at the office around 9:45 a.m., sign in, and set up my workspace. I’m staring at the computer screen and checking our social media accounts for overnight messages and reactions. My to-do list is front-and-centre on the desk, and I’m ready to tick tasks off and add more as they come.

10:00 am to 12:00 pm: My home office is located just outside my bedroom door, whilst my husband often works from home downstairs. We sometimes convene for lunch, but otherwise keep in our separate spaces for most of the working day. I regularly eat lunch with coworkers in the office cafe, but tend to take my food at my desk when home.

12:00pm – 2:00 pm: The office is a barrel of laughs, with folks chatting, offering hot drinks, and collaborating all day. At home, there’s usually a podcast playing whilst I try not to get distracted by the neighbourhood goings-on outside my window.

2:00pm – 4:00 pm: I work varied hours across four days, so there’s a routine but still room for flexibility. At the end of a WFH day, I’ll email my manager a bulleted list of what I accomplished that day. It’s all friendly waves and goodbyes from my desk in the office.

After 4:00 pm: Whatever hasn’t been ticked off the day’s to-do list gets pushed to tomorrow. The laptop gets turned off, the phone gets put away, and I try my darndest not to check work email until at least 9:30 a.m. the next day.

Thanks for sharing your day, Stephanie!

Want to be featured in this series? Tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro by filling out the form below.

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]]> 10 Easy Ways to Lower Your Stress Levels https://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/easy-ways-to-lower-your-stress-levels-npcommlife/ Thu, 01 Aug 2024 19:11:27 +0000 https://nonprofit-marketing.local/easy-ways-to-lower-your-stress-levels-npcommlife/ You rushed out the door this morning and left your raincoat or umbrella, and it, of course, rains. You didn't get gas yesterday because you just wanted to get home after a long day and now you have to unexpectedly drive across town to take your child to the doctor. You didn't prepare a [...]

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You rushed out the door this morning and left your raincoat or umbrella, and it, of course, rains.

You didn’t get gas yesterday because you just wanted to get home after a long day and now you have to unexpectedly drive across town to take your child to the doctor.

You didn’t prepare a blog post for today because you were stressed because you’ve been working on a big project and now you are scrambling to post something. (OK, that one was me today!)

For all of us out there who end up piling on more stress trying to avoid stress, here are 10 tips from Gretchen Rubin’s 20 Very Easy Tips for Lowering Your Daily Stress Level.

“A little effort now means a lot less stress, later.”

Gretchen Rubin

  1. Get up thirty minutes earlier than usual. I started with 15 minutes cause I am SO NOT a morning person and even that has helped.
  2. Before you go to sleep, prepare for the morning. If I am working out in the morning, I pick out what I am going to wear and have the dogs poop bags ready to go (weird I know, but they always give me trouble opening them on mornings when I am rushing).
  3. Bring a hat and an umbrella. This isn’t quite as important since I work from home, but I do keep an umbrella in my car.
  4. Make a list. Pfft this one is easy for a list-making fool like me and it does in fact relieve stress instantly.
  5. Listen to a favorite song. “I’m gonna keep on dancing at the Pink Pony Club” puts me in a better mood instantly.
  6. Keep an extra set of keys. This has saved the day on more than one occasion.
  7. Exercise. As cranky as I am in the morning getting up to either walk the dogs or go work out, I am instantly in a better mood after (unless Hazel saw a cat, then I am probably still cranky and possibly in pain).
  8. Throw something away. OK, bye bye sticky note that’s been sitting on my desk for three months with “$566” written on it that I have no idea what it’s for anymore, but didn’t want to throw away “just in case”.
  9. Don’t say mean things about other people. As much as I want to say talking crap about someone who deserves it is cathartic, in the end I usually only get more wound up.
  10. Put a Bandaid in your wallet. There is one in my crossbody #momlife

For the full list, visit the Positively Positive blog.

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]]> Seven Tips for Modern Nonprofit Email Newsletter Designs https://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/seven-tips-for-modern-nonprofit-email-newsletter-designs/ Tue, 16 Jul 2024 20:33:52 +0000 https://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/?p=19413 We recently presented a new webinar on modern nonprofit email newsletter designs. If you missed it, All-Access Pass holders can watch the recording in our private community. We looked at more than a decade of nonprofit email newsletter designs and compared those to best practices today, which was very eye-opening for many participants. Are [...]

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We recently presented a new webinar on modern nonprofit email newsletter designs. If you missed it, All-Access Pass holders can watch the recording in our private community.

We looked at more than a decade of nonprofit email newsletter designs and compared those to best practices today, which was very eye-opening for many participants. Are you still emailing like it’s 2020, 2017, or even 2012?

Here are seven pointers we recommend for any nonprofit considering a newsletter redesign. Based on the number of webinar participants who said they wanted to implement this change, I’m sharing these in order of importance. Eighty-four nonprofit communicators participated in the polling for reference.  Keep in mind they wouldn’t have voted for it if they had already made the change.

1. Shorten, Shorten, Shorten.

Nonprofit email newsletters are almost universally too long. Shorten, shorten, shorten. If you have that much great info to share via email, consider sending your newsletter more often instead of cramming everything in.  This was the most popular change participants wanted to make, with 65% saying they would like to shorten their nonprofit’s email newsletter.

More: Three Trends That Beg for Shorter Email Newsletters

2. No Paragraphs Longer Than Three Sentences.

One easy way to shorten your newsletter is to stop with the big blocks of text! Shorten your sentences and paragraphs! Keeping your nonprofit email newsletter design short also means making it skimmable, which means shorter blocks of text. A little over half of participants, 54%, said they wanted to try this.

3. Simplify the Header.

Don’t blow the most important email real estate right at the top with a meaningless graphic. Your “from” line should tell them it’s from you, and you don’t need to name your newsletter with an enormous graphic. Keep it small. Forty percent of webinar poll takers wanted to simplify their headers.

4. Add Motion to the Top.

Everywhere you look online, we know video works. But how do you capitalize on that with email? Adding animated gifs to your newsletter can work, whether you use three seconds from a video you link to or a more traditional animated gif you create in something like Canva. Forty percent of webinar poll takers also wanted to add motion to the top of their email newsletters.

5. Use One Main Article Followed by Secondary Teasers.

Here’s another way to keep your newsletters shorter and skimmable: Prioritize the content for your readers. Give more space to the single most important message and follow that with something more akin to bullets or teaser copy. About a third, 36%, wanted to try this approach to their nonprofit email newsletter design.

6. Left Justify Everything.

There’s no need to get fancy. When folks are skimming emails, it’s too much work for their eyes to dart around left, right, and center, trying to figure out what they should be looking at. Left-justify everything so it’s easy to skim. About a quarter, 26%, thought this could be helpful with their email newsletter redesign.

7. Limit the Use of Extraneous Lines and Photos That Don’t Add Meaning.

If it doesn’t add meaning, get rid of it. We reviewed many nonprofit newsletters with extraneous lines and photos that didn’t add any meaning but were just filler. A well-placed icon can often convey more meaning than a vague photo! A fifth, or 20%, of participants wanted to consider this tip when redesigning their nonprofit email newsletter.

See our Nonprofit Email Newsletter Best Practices and Tips for more.

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]]> 7 Tips to Get Motivated at Work During Summer https://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/time-to-chase-the-summer-blahs-away-7-tips-on-getting-motivated-at-work-again/ Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:01:06 +0000 https://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/?p=14885 You aren't imaging things.  It’s hard to get motivated to work during the summer. It's so hot. Your friends are on vacation. The kids are home. But you still have emails to send, social media to update, newsletters to publish and the 101 other things you're asked to do as a nonprofit communicator. Assuming [...]

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You aren’t imaging things.  It’s hard to get motivated to work during the summer. It’s so hot. Your friends are on vacation. The kids are home.

But you still have emails to send, social media to update, newsletters to publish and the 101 other things you’re asked to do as a nonprofit communicator.

Assuming you can’t just skip work all summer, how can you make it through the next few months?

Here are seven ideas to help you stay motivated at work during summer:

Look at Your Work in a Different Way

Instead of thinking of your lead newsletter article as a burden, think of how it will educate, motivate, or challenge your supporters. Or you can think of it as an important part of your professional development. You are enhancing your writing and marketing skills.

Prioritize Your To-Do List

If your to-do list is overwhelming, narrow it down to the three tasks you HAVE to do today. Then go back and add your other tasks as you go.

Break Your Work Into Smaller Steps

Anything you are working on starts with one smaller step. Don’t worry about the end result and just start with step one.

Just Get Started Already

Sometimes you are just not going to want to do something no matter how much you try to motivate yourself. This is when you Just. Have. To. Start. Working. As I mentioned above, breaking the work into smaller steps should help. It maybe time to take a deep breath and dive in.

Get Hyped

Got a song that gets you pumped? Or maybe a motivational speaker or article can help spark that work? Find it and use it! I am currently on a Chappelle Roan kick.

Reward Yourself

Create some motivation by giving yourself a treat when you complete a task. Chocolate, time on TikTok, a walk – whatever you think of as a treat can work.

Celebrate Your Wins

Keep a daily “Small Wins Diary,” regularly talk about small wins with others (Pass Holders, have a space in our Community devoted to this), and refocus your thoughts away from frustrating “how” questions to the more fulfilling “why” questions related to why you do your work.

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]]> Nonprofit Marketing Training: You Have Lots of Choices https://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/nonprofit-marketing-training/ Wed, 03 Jul 2024 19:21:10 +0000 https://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/?p=19376 Here at Nonprofit Marketing Guide, we specialize in nonprofit marketing training. We do this in our quest to help you learn your job, love your work, and lead your team. But we know everyone learns differently. Everyone has a different amount of time to devote to professional development. Everyone is at a different level [...]

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Here at Nonprofit Marketing Guide, we specialize in nonprofit marketing training. We do this in our quest to help you learn your job, love your work, and lead your team.

But we know everyone learns differently. Everyone has a different amount of time to devote to professional development. Everyone is at a different level of experience and learning on the job. Some want hard skills training, and others want to talk it out with colleagues before they make decisions at their organizations.

That’s why our nonprofit marketing training menu offers so many different styles and topics—and we’ve just added a couple more!

Nonprofit Marketing Training – Live Formats in Real Time

Webinars

Each month, we offer one or two 60-minute training webinars on topics in nonprofit marketing and communications, covering both tactical and strategic skills. Here’s the current schedule. Anyone can register for these a la carte, and they are also included at no additional charge in the All-Access Pass.  Popular webinars include social media, email marketing, and video trends for nonprofits.

Master Classes

Five or six times a year, we offer a three-hour Master Class on Zoom. This approximates an in-person workshop experience, including training, small group work time, lots of worksheets and resources, and plenty of time for Q&A. Our most popular Master Classes are the “Seven Writing Styles All Nonprofit Communicators Should Master” and the “Communications Planning Master Class.” Anyone can register for these a la carte, and they are also included in the All-Access Pass. 

Jump Starters

Once a month, we offer an hour-long small group workshop on a specific topic to our All-Access Pass holders only. During Jump Starters, you get a bit of training, time to discuss strategic questions with other nonprofit communicators, 15 minutes of quiet time to start on a provided worksheet, and time for open Q&A.  Popular Jump Starters include prioritizing which metrics to track on social media or email, developing personas or journeys, and setting boundaries with coworkers.

And we’ve recently added two new formats– Study Halls and Chitchats — within our free, private community!

Study Halls

Every month or two, we’ll hold a mini-training session we call a Study Hall in our private community. You’ll get a bit of training (5-10 minutes), and you will likely get a worksheet or template. In this way, Study Halls are similar to Jump Starters, but not as intensive. We will also use Study Halls for feedback and fine-tuning sessions where you share your work with others and provide feedback to each other. Many of these will be free for anyone to attend, although some will be limited to All-Access Pass holders only.

Community Chitchats

Chitchats are a chance for us to come together and discuss a certain topic. These will be Zoom-style meetings in our community on specific topics but without a training agenda. It’s more of an opportunity for community members to share their insights and questions with each other, and we’ll simply provide facilitation and relevant resources.

Study Halls and Chitchats will be about 30 minutes long and generally more casual and less structured than Webinars, Master Classes, and Jump Starters.

Check out the full schedule of events in our community.

Nonprofit Marketing Training – At Your Own Pace

Everything above takes place in real-time. Put it on your schedule and join us live! We do record some of these sessions, but not all of them. For example, Master Classes and Jump Starters are rarely recorded.

We do, however, have many resources and recordings for folks who cannot join us live for whatever reason. We know that many members of our community live outside North America, and time zone differences make live participation tough. We also know how busy many of you are during the workday.

No worries –our private community is a gold mine of resources, recorded webinars, and self-paced certificate courses.

Free Resources and Discussions

Start with our Free Resources Library where you will find a vast array of worksheets, how-to guides, checklists, and some webinar recordings. Then connect with other nonprofit communicators in our discussion spaces. If you do it at work, there’s a place to talk about it with others in our community! All-Access Pass holders have an even greater library of materials, including many more webinar recordings and in-depth worksheets, templates, and guides on all kinds of nonprofit marketing and communications topics.

Micro-Credentials and Professional Certificates

We are working this summer to expand our micro-credentialing program and our professional certificate program. We are designing these to be meaningful learning experiences. You can’t just say you read a few blog posts or watched a video and call it a certificate! But we’ll make everything we ask you to do relevant, fun, and meaningful.

Three Books

Kivi Leroux Miller is the author of three books on nonprofit marketing and communications. These books are used as texts for university and certificate programs across the U.S. and Canada. But these are not your average boring textbooks. These were written first as pragmatic guides for working professionals and then adopted later by academics because they are so relevant to working in the sector.

  • The Nonprofit Marketing Guide, second edition
  • Content Marketing for Nonprofits
  • CALM not BUSY

The Communications Director Mentoring Program

The Communications Director Mentoring Program is our premier training and coaching program. With a cohort of up to 16 people in each session, this six-month program runs from January to June and again from July to December. It covers everything a professional communicator or marketer working in the nonprofit sector needs to know. In six months, you’ll gain the knowledge and experience that it often takes three to five years to build in the sector on your own.

Consider yourself invited to join our community of nonprofit communicators working on their own professional development individually and together! We hope to see you in one of these trainings soon.

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]]> Nonprofit Social Media and Newsletter Ideas for July 2024 https://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/nonprofit-social-media-and-newsletter-ideas-for-july/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:02:26 +0000 https://www.nonprofitmarketingguide.com/?p=17957 If this summer heat is causing writer's block, then look no further! We’ve got you covered for social media, blog post, or newsletter ideas for July. These July writing ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. Fill out the form below to get August’s prompts emailed to you next week.On the Calendar7/1: [...]

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If this summer heat is causing writer’s block, then look no further! We’ve got you covered for social media, blog post, or newsletter ideas for July. These July writing ideas come from our Monthly Nonprofit Writing Prompts email newsletter. Fill out the form below to get August’s prompts emailed to you next week.

On the Calendar

7/1: Canada Day. For our friends to the North, this is a day to celebrate Canadian heritage and pride.

7/1: International Joke Day. Make fun of yourself a little. Have a funniest joke contest. Share your best “Dad” jokes or if you deal with kids, then have them share their favorite jokes.

7/4: Independence Day (U.S.). What do you want your readers to declare their independence from? Or share your favorite summer recipes.

7/7: Tell the Truth Day. Create social media posts with truths about your cause that supporters can use on their networks or counter any lies your detractors are spreading.

7/13: Embrace Your Geekness Day. Perfect for those orgs who deal with training or other “geeky” causes. “How to” posts would also work here.

7/17: World Emoji Day. Can you communicate your mission or other aspects of your organization just using emojis? Great idea for social media.

7/18: Nelson Mandela International Day. How can the legacy of Nelson Mandela inspire your supporters to take action?

7/21: National Junk Food Day. Do an expose on all those so-bad-but-so-good treats your staff has squirreled away in their desks. Or if you deal with nutrition issues, share healthy alternatives.

7/30: International Day of Friendship. Highlight “friends” of your mission even if they are other nonprofits.

Other important dates in July:

  • American Zoo Day (1st)
  • National Workaholics Day (5th)
  • Hijri New Year (8th)
  • World Population Day (11th)
  • Parent’s Day (28th)

It’s also:

  • Parks and Recreation Month
  • National Picnic Month National
  • Cell Phone Courtesy Month
  • National Ice Cream Month
  • National Lost Pet Prevention Month
  • National Make A Difference to Children Month
  • National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
  • UV Safety Awareness Month

Metaphor of the Month

This month’s metaphor is Cooking, Food, and Beverages. Think about recipes, foodies, cookbooks, grills, ingredients, barbeques, shopping lists, bar tabs, chefs, chopping block, culinary school, juice, winemaking, baking, mixed drinks, burning, boiling, beer, raw, mocktails, utensils, fruits, meats, vegetables.

How can you relate these things to your organization?

Pop Culture, Events, and News

Fireworks celebrations will be held around the United Stated for July 4th celebrations.

Summer travel will continue to heat up.

Wimbledon runs the 1st through the 14th.

Shark Week on the Discovery Channel starts the 7th with host John Cena.

The 2024 ESPY Awards will be presented on the 11th.

The Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards 2024 are on the 13th.

Major League Baseball’s All-Star game is July 16th in Arlington, TX with the annual Home Run Derby being held the day before.

The Tour de France ends the 21st.

The Summer Olympics opening ceremony is on the 26th in Paris.

In movie news, Despicable Me 4, MaXXXine, Fly Me to the Moon, Longlegs, Touch, Twisters, and Deadpool & Wolverine will be released in July.

Streaming movies coming out include Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, Space Cadet, The Imaginary, Skywalkers: A Love Story, Tyler Perry’s Divorce in the Black, Descendants: The Rise of Red, My Spy The Eternal City, and Find Me Falling.

TV Premieres include Hard Knocks: Offseason With the New York Giants, The Man With 1000 Kids, All American: Homecoming, The Bachelorette, Claim to Fame, Million Dollar Listing, Sunny, Impractical Jokers, Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer, The Real Housewives of Orange County, Sausage Party: Foodtopia, Vikings: Valhalla, Exploding Kittens, Me, The Serpent Queen, Mammals, The Black Widower: The Six Wives of Thomas Randolph, Homicide: Los Angeles, The Ark, Big Brother, Cobra Kai, How I Caught My Killer, Those About to Die, Lady in the Lake, Snowpiercer, Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, Time Bandits, The Decameron, Futurama, and Unsolved Mysteries.

Also Hallmark will be doing a “Christmas in July” schedule.

Source of the Month

AI. Ask ChaptGPT (or whatever you use for generative AI) for writing ideas based on your mission.

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Your Nonprofit Writing Prompts for June 2024

On the Calendar

6/1: Official Start of Hurricane Season in the US. If you work anywhere near the Gulf or Atlantic Coasts, you know all about Hurricane season, which starts June 1st and goes through November. How can you relate your work to hurricane preparedness, or the power of water and wind?

6/3: Repeat Day. Use this day to resend an email to people who didn’t open it the first time or republish a blog post that did well.

6/3: Repeat Day. Use this day to resend an email to people who didn’t open it the first time or republish a blog post that did well.

6/5: World Environment Day. It’s sort of like a global Earth Day headed by the United Nations Environment Programme. This year’s focus is on land restoration, desertification and drought resilience under the slogan “Our land. Our future. We are #GenerationRestoration.”

6/8: Best Friends Day. Who are your organization’s best friends? Feature your most passionate supporters and volunteers.

6/14: Flag Day. Design a flag for your organization. If you serve kids or families, hold a contest asking them to draw a flag that represents your cause. Veterans groups can take a more literal view of the holiday and ask their clients what the American flag means to them.

6/15: Smile Power Day. This screams photo spread! Get the camera out and take some pics of your staff, volunteers or clients.

6/16: Father’s Day. Just like Mother’s Day in May — plenty of opportunities here. Who is the “father” of your cause or organization? How can your supporters honor their fathers in a way that’s consistent with your cause?

6/18: National Splurge Day. What would you do if you could suddenly purchase anything you wanted for your cause?

6/21: First Day of Summer. Think about ways to relate your cause to summer vacations or anything else summery.

6/24: Take Your Dog to Work Day. This one speaks for itself. Post pics of your pups or ask your supporters to share some of their dogs at work.

Other special events in June include D-Day (6th), World Oceans Day (8th), Loving Day (12th), Juneteenth (19th), and Social Media Day (30th).

It’s also:

  • Great Outdoors Month
  • Gay Pride Month
  • Caribbean American Heritage Month
  • National Adopt a Cat Month
  • National Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Month
  • Student Safety Month
  • Zoo and Aquarium Month

Metaphor of the Month

This month’s metaphor is Travel. Think about vacations, planes, trains, cars, cruise ships, tickets, souvenirs, exploring, delays, road trips, tourists, GPS, luggage, business trips, language barriers, and maps. This year, you might also think about canceled trips, refunds, and online tours.

How can you relate these things to your organization?

Pop Culture, Events, and News

The NBA and NHL playoffs will continue through June.

Music Festivals are also starting to return this summer.

The 51st Daytime Emmy Awards will be the 7th.

The French Open ends June 9th.

The Tony Awards are on the 16th.

The U.S. Open of golf will be held June 13th-16th in Pinehurst, NC.

The BET Awards are the 30th.

Movies being released include Bad Boys: Ride or Die, School of Magical Animals 2, Inside Out 2, Watchers, Kinds of Kindness, The Bikeriders, A Quiet Place: Day One, Horizon: An American Saga, and Daddio,

Streaming movies include Under Paris, Baki Hanma VS Kengan Ashura, Hit Man, and Fancy Dance.

TV premieres in June include Trixie Motel: Drag Me Home, Couples Therapy, Fixer Upper: The Lakehouse, Mayor of Kingstown, The Real Housewives of Dubai, The 1% Club, American Ninja Warrior, Erased: WW2’s Heroes of Color, Gypsy Rose: Life After Lock Up, Name That Tune, The Acolyte, Clipped, Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial, Criminal Minds: Evolution, Sweet Tooth, Power Book II: Ghost, Queenie, The Lazarus Project, Deadliest Catch, Presumed Innocent, The Boys, Bridgerton, House of the Dragon, Orphan Black: Echoes, The Real CSI: Miami, My Lady Jane, That ’90s Show, Zombies: The Re-Animated Series, and The Bear

Source of the Month

People just love a good quote. You can create a blog post around a quote or simply post one to social media. To make it more share-worthy, lay the text from the quote over an image related to your cause. Goodreads has a popular quotes page, or you can simply search “famous quotes.” Just make sure you double-check your source! Lots of quotes are ascribed to famous people who didn’t actually say them.

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