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CSR=Look at the shiny thing while we trash your world!
“Yes, we disabled the alarms on the Deepwater Horizon. Oh, like you’ve never hit the snooze button? http://ow.ly/2fQ6x” 1:57 PM Jul 23rd @BPGlobalPR Today British Petroleum announced a new CEO, Robert Dudley, an American, meant to appease the millions of Americans without livelihoods now, and the millions of environmental activists up in arms about the [...]
Magic Crystal Ball: What will happen to nonprofits?
Gertrude Kasebier, The Magic Crystal, c. 1904
What you don't know CAN hurt you.
Jamel Debbouze in Amelie
When I saw Amelie in 2001, I loved Jamel Debbouze’s character, Lucien. He overcame the barriers presented to him, and ended up running the fruit and vegetable stall where he had previously been abused and oppressed by the owner for being disabled and for being of a different race. It nearly made me cry, when he was being slapped by the manager. My emotional reaction was a hint that I needed to do something.
Changing Your Language, Changing Your Life
Whether you’re working to rescue animals or simply to improve the world, there’s a vocabulary around what you do.
There’s a measure of educating the community in nonprofit, charity and cause related marketing. You tell people what you do, and you tell them why they should care. But have you ever thought about going further, and starting a movement, educating an entire group about the ideas behind what you do?
Isn’t it time we started to talk among ourselves about the ideas that make us get up and go to work every day?
Your nonprofit marketing and BPGlobalPR
Their reprehensible behavior that caused this disaster means that humorists everywhere are having a field day with their name. And this includes twitter. A twitter account that’s getting a lot of attention lately is @BPGlobalPR. They have 99,000 followers, and the spill happened less than 2 months ago. They are making t-shirts, and all donations are going to Healthy Gulf.org. What can we, as nonprofit marketers, learn from the success of BPGlobalPR?
Top ten mistakes people make in fundraising
So are you: 0. Thinking that your nonprofit is looking out for you, and will reward all of your hard work with more money or respect or job titles? Think again. 1. Thinking fundraising is begging? It’s not. It’s relationship building. 2. Thinking that you should not get paid a living wage, nor should your [...]
Are YOU Fundraising in a Big Shop?
Because you’ve got so much support, you’re expected to perform miracles, even with a bad database, or a down economy. Or perhaps you feel pigeonholed into your role, with no chance to move up, or do new things.
How do you deal?
"No life, no liberty, just the pursuit of wealthy donors"
Have you ever felt upset that you have to go to all of these charity events, all of these chamber of commerce meetings and corporate meetings where you are frayed at the cuffs and frazzled, and all around you, people are sleek and well dressed? Have people ever looked you up and down and you [...]
Aw Girl, are you JADED?
Do you advocate for people to give to causes, but never give to causes yourself?
Why is that?
How can you build trust in your nonprofit?
“RICHARD WILKINSON: (With a large wage gap) almost everything gets worse: homicide rates, how kids get on at school, math and literacy scores, teenage birth rates, obesity. Mental illness is worse, how much people feel they can trust others, the size of prison populations, what proportion of the population are locked up, measures of social cohesion, how much people are involved in community life. Everything seems to get worse.
BILL MOYERS: Levels of trust among people are affected by the distribution of income?
RICHARD WILKINSON: I think it’s something that people have had an intuition about for centuries. They have often regarded inequality as divisive and socially corrosive. And our data shows that this intuition is much truer than any of us ever realized. We choose our friends from amongst our equals. People don’t feel so at ease with people who are much better off.
BILL MOYERS: Inequality makes strangers of us?
KATE PICKETT: That’s right. At one point, we wanted to call our book, “Inequality: The Enemy Between Us” because in a more unequal society, the social distances get stretched out between us. As the hierarchy gets steeper, social distances are greater, and it’s harder to trust.
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