Ten tips to get the most out of your email newsletters

Here are ten tips to help you make your email newsletters more engaging and more effective.

Fundraising and communications: One hat or two?

This article looks at whether or not fundraising and communications should be separate departments at a nonprofit.

Five ways to improve internal communications at your nonprofit

Nonprofit organizations spend a lot of time and energy communicating with external audiences, which include donors, volunteers, board members, reporters, politicians and policymakers. But are you neglecting to communicate with one of the most crucial target audiences of all — your own staff?

Fundraising Q&A: What should I include in my annual report?

This article reviews the purpose of the annual report and helps you decide what to put in it.

Picture perfect: 10 tips for taking great photos

Photography is one of the areas where program staff and volunteers can use their creativity to enhance the organization’s communications materials. Here are a few tips to help you along the way.

Social media: What’s your policy?

If you’re an avid devotee of social media, chances are you’ve already heard about this infamous gaffe: a Red Cross employee uses HootSuite to send out an otherwise-innocent tweet about her alcohol-induced evening in the company of a specific beer. She thought she was sending it from her personal account. But she was wrong. As we all know, mistakes like that are not easily repealed and once you’ve hit that send button it’s hard to take things back.

Are you ready for a crisis?

It’s not just high-profile celebrities, corporations and organizations that need to have a crisis communication plan, all nonprofits should have one.