Connecting with your audience is fundamental to successful nonprofit fundraising and marketing. And yet, many nonprofit organizations still send one singular message out to all donors, partners and volunteers. When it’s time for your team to start sending out...
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Marketing Budgets for Nonprofits: Why Personnel is your Most Important Asset
As a Fractional CMO, I work with many different nonprofit organizations, each with their own budget constraints, priorities, and goals. I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard nonprofit leaders share some form of “We don’t have enough money to hire strategic...
Make a Marketing Plan That Actually Works: How to Operationalize Your Nonprofit’s Marketing Efforts
So you and your team have created a marketing plan. It’s nice and shiny. You’ve worked hard. You’ve outlined your goals, you’ve gathered your materials, and you’re feeling as motivated as ever. Your team is ready to get your name out there, grow your audience, and...
Stop the Scramble: Planning for Year End Nonprofit Fundraising Campaigns
If you work in the nonprofit sector, you know that at least 30% of giving happens in the last month of the year. Between Giving Tuesday in November and year end giving in December, these final months provide a significant uptick in gifts to nonprofits, which is...
Marketing Your Nonprofit Without Selling Out
I was recently talking with a longtime client of mine, and we were thinking back to when we first started working together. Back then, they had little to no marketing going on. The majority of their funding came from their annual gala and that was about as far as they...
Fractional CMO for Nonprofit Organizations: Unlocking Your Marketing Potential
As with nearly all other aspects of nonprofit growth and success, nonprofit marketing is essential for amplifying your mission and increasing your impact. Despite its importance, though, strategic marketing efforts in nonprofit organizations often end up scattered,...
Build Brand Trust with These Ethical Marketing Campaigns
Ethical marketing is the content you share about the intersection of your product or service and the impact it has or your business has in the world. It’s as much a digital marketing strategy as it is a philosophy. At Wayward Kind, ethical marketing is at the heart...
How to Generate Leads in the Impact Economy
As an organization, your business is committed to providing some social impact by virtue of your product or service. With a growing number of businesses adopting a form of social good or addressing social problems in their business, how do you stand out? This...
How to Respond to Political Moments
Content Development, Marketing Strategy
On Wednesday, January 6th, 2021, Black and Brown organizers secured the victory for two historic Democratic candidates in Georgia, essentially saving American democracy once again from itself. Mere hours after this, in the midst of certifying the Electoral College...











