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Written for do-it-yourself nonprofit marketers and one-person nonprofit communications departments.

Mixed Links: Good Stuff for Nonprofit CommunicatorsYesterday

Below you’ll find a TGIF blogging cocktail of links I think you’ll find helpful and interesting, but first a few quick reminders . . .

Nonprofit Writing Stinks! How to Bring Your Writing Back to Life is next week’s webinar, on Tuesday, October 14 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern.  Here are a few comments from people who took this webinar this summer:

“Lots of concrete advice that can be implemented right away. Examples demonstrate real-world use of these concepts.” 

“It was a very good overview of how to write so an audience will pay attention to what you say and understand it.”

“Very interactive, fun, engaging, and informative.”

“Simple tips and easy to implement strategies for making your writing interesting.”

Join us on Tuesday!

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The Nonprofit Tagline Challenge is still on! Send me your taglines for my safe-sex fundraiser and you could win free webinar passes.

Nonprofit Publicity 101 - Get Some Free Advice for Your GroupOctober 6

   

Learn How to Light a Fire That Spreads and Gets Your Good Work Noticed with Kivi’s and Claire’s Creative and Effective Publicity Tips.

 Get the Detail on This Thursday’s Webinar.

OK, it’s not totally free advice - you do have to register for this week’s webinar –  Nonprofit Publicity 101: Great PR Ideas that Get Attention – but in addition to some PR Basic Training by yours truly, several registrants will also get free advice from Nonprofit Marketing Guide’s media maven and all-around Big Idea Gal, Claire Meyerhoff, during the webinar. 

What will we be covering this week? All kinds of cool ideas to get your organization noticed, whether you are working online or offline, nationwide or in a community setting. You can get a little taste of some of the tips by listening to last Friday’s “Magic Keys Radio” show now available as a podcast.

After going over our tips, we’ll take your questio

Nonprofit Tagline Challenge: Name My Fundraiser!October 3

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Calling all of you wonderfully creative, zany, clever, and even snarky nonprofit communicators!

Now is your chance to put to work what you’ve learned from Nancy Schwartz’s Nonprofit Tagline Report on a real fundraising campaign. And you can go wild because it’s not something your boss has to approve. And there are prizes too — good ones — like free webinar passes and an All-Access Pass to Nonprofit Marketing Guide.com for the Grand Prize Winner.

On September 18, I told you how I’m raising money to buy condoms for the Positive Wellness Alliance (PWA) to give away for free to anyone who needs them, including teens who are too afraid to be seen buying them and folks who just don’t have the money to spare.

I’m a new board member for PWA, which helps people infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS in rural North Carolina. (Did you know the rate of infection is dramatically increasing in the South while falling everywhere else in the U.S.?)

With your help, I’ve raised $2

Great Leadership Tips & Ideas @ the CarnivalOctober 3

What does it take to be a great leader in the nonprofit sector? You’ll find some thoughtful answers in the current edition of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, posted Wednesday at Ready, Aim, Inspire.

The roundup includes posts from Jane Arsenault, Jason Dick, Katya Andresen, Heather Carpenter, and Sam Davidson.

The Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants is a twice-monthly blog carnival that rounds up some of the best advice, forward thinking, and resources for nonprofits in the blogosphere. Its home base is here at Nonprofit Communications.

Where is it headed next, you ask?

October 15 - Katya’s Nonprofit Marketing Blog

Theme: “Chart Magic” - Share an insightful or absurd visual that sums up something important or amusing about the nonprofit sector.

Registration Now Open for Fall Webinar SeriesSeptember 30

The Nonprofit Marketing Guide weekly webinar series is continuing this fall, with some great new topics and a few encores of popular topics from earlier this year. As always, registration for each webinar is $35, which includes everyone in your office who can fit around one speakerphone and computer monitor. 

Even better — get the All-Access Pass for just $97 and you can attend all of these sessions at no additional charge. It’s the recession-proof way to get the training you need so you can build support and raise money for your good cause!

Ten Captivating Ways to Start Fundraising Letters, Newsletter Articles & More

You’ll learn 10 different ways to start your fundraising letters and other marketing com