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The Five Most Common Missteps in Nonprofit Strategy Development

 Whitepaper: Nonprofit Marketing Budgeting – A How-to Guide
By Alyssa Conrardy
In Marketing & Communications
Posted October 17, 2019

Whitepaper: Nonprofit Marketing Budgeting – A How-to Guide

There is a right way and a wrong way to build and manage a nonprofit marketing budget. We've developed this whitepaper to help you through the process from start to finish...

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 Language Matters in Nonprofit (and all) Marketing
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By Lindsay Mullen
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Posted October 8, 2019

Language Matters in Nonprofit (and all) Marketing

A few months ago, I attended an event hosted by a nonprofit here in Chicago. One of the panelists was the Chicago Public School’s Chief Equity Officer, Maurice Swinney, and the discussion was [...]

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 How to Create an Effective and Efficient Nonprofit Marketing Department
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By Alyssa Conrardy
In Marketing & Communications
Posted October 4, 2019

How to Create an Effective and Efficient Nonprofit Marketing Department

I started my career as a nonprofit marketer in 2014. Since then, I’ve worked at traditional nonprofits, professional associations, and agency settings. Though my experience has been varied, [...]

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 How to Acquire New Donors Online: The Ultimate Guide to Digital Donor Acquisition
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By Alyssa Conrardy
In Fundraising & Development
Posted October 1, 2019

How to Acquire New Donors Online: The Ultimate Guide to Digital Donor Acquisition

Donor attrition is a real problem at nearly every nonprofit organization I’ve ever collaborated with. Each year, some donors simply stop giving, choose to give more to other organizations, or [...]

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 Webinar Recap: Can Nonprofit Marketing and Communications Advance Equity?
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By Lindsay Mullen
In Marketing & Communications
Posted September 30, 2019

Webinar Recap: Can Nonprofit Marketing and Communications Advance Equity?

In this webinar from September 2019, president of Prosper Strategies Alyssa Conrardy sat down with the CEO of YWCA Chicago Dorri McWhorter for a conversation around nonprofit marketing and [...]

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 Avoiding Poverty Porn While Pulling Heartstrings
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By Lindsay Mullen
In Uncategorized
Posted September 25, 2019

Avoiding Poverty Porn While Pulling Heartstrings

More than 50 percent of nonprofits receive a majority of their donations during the last quarter of the year. As you think about your end-of-year fundraising efforts, it can be easy to fall into [...]

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 How Your Fundraising Team Can (and Should) Work With an Agency
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By Lindsay Mullen
In Fundraising & Development
Posted September 24, 2019

How Your Fundraising Team Can (and Should) Work With an Agency

There are few situations more vulnerable than those when we ask for help. As professionals, it can sometimes feel like we’re expected to know how to do everything; asking for help, then, can feel [...]

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 How to Leverage Storytelling for Fundraising Success
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By Alyssa Conrardy
In Fundraising & Development
Posted September 17, 2019

How to Leverage Storytelling for Fundraising Success

If you’re like me, you’ve been working in (or with) the nonprofit sector for your entire career. You’ve spent countless hours on Google, skimming headlines and articles looking for that [...]

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 Your Board’s Role in Hiring a Marketing Agency
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By Lindsay Mullen
In Leadership, Marketing & Communications
Posted September 13, 2019

Your Board’s Role in Hiring a Marketing Agency

We’ve talked about making the case for a marketing investment to your board. So now, let’s talk about what to do when additional marketing investment gets the green light, and your next step is [...]

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 The Case for Engaging Diverse Stakeholders in Developing Your Nonprofit’s Brand
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By Alyssa Conrardy
In Shared Power Strategy
Posted September 10, 2019

The Case for Engaging Diverse Stakeholders in Developing Your Nonprofit’s Brand

Who “owns” your organization? This question is not nearly as straightforward in the nonprofit world as it is in the for-profit world.  The short answer is the organization’s many diverse [...]

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