Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants

This week, Fundraising Breakthroughs hosts the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. From posts submitted, I selected five that offered particularly practical ideas that leaders in small and medium-sized nonprofits could use.

Jordan Viator, Connection Café, links to excerpts from a conference panel discussion on How Can Small Nonprofits and Organizations Succeed Online. Watch the youTube video and hang on until the very end. That last panelist’s comments suggest he has the best understanding of the question and concerns of “small” groups (guessing he's from Convio). Plus he’s got a real-life useful and inspiring case study (trisomy18.org).

Nancy Schwartz, Getting Attention!, directs us to an extraordinary youTube video from the ACLU that features Daily Kos diarist and blogger Kenevan McConnan. Her analysis explains why this video, emailed to ACLU supporters, works as an attention-getting (and attention-rewarding) upgrade solicitation.

Jeff Brooks, DonorPowerBlog takes a look at the New Oxfam brand campaign, concluding that it takes a “vacation from the real world.”

From Paul Jones’s blog Cause Related Marketing, a reminder that every fundraising message should speak to head and to heart.

Conor Byrne wishes he could read this newsletter headline, “Director of Appreciation Appointed.” Brilliant idea. My proposal to fellow nonprofit organization capacity-building consultants: This week, let’s all recommend that each of our clients appoint one board member to this position, assign a specific staff person to provide (limited but reliable) support. This is one cool volunteer job that should generate leaps and layers of good stuff for organizations.

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Thanks to Kivi Leroux for organizing the carnival and keeping it going.

—Amy