Social Marketing and Media Relations Campaign Working under the aegis of the Nonprofit Marketing 360 collaborative, MKCREATIVE and LCG Communications embarked on an ambitious campaign to promote an online silent auction for a client. We used a combination of PR (LCG Communications) and social marketing (MKC). Our client, NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan, sought […]
#Fundraising: Susan Emfinger Offers Ideas On Raising Big Donations In Economic Downtimes
Last week, I said that I would spend some time exploring questions that to my mind are important to fundraisers from both the charity and the education sectors. I introduced a series of loaded questions from a colleague of mine about the challenges of fundraising in the midst of the difficulties most of us face […]
#Fundraising: Susan Emfinger Discusses The Difficulties and Faulty Assumptions of Raising Money
In my last blog post, I said that I would spend some time exploring questions that to my mind are important to fundraisers from both the charity and the education sectors. Be careful what you wish for: just this week a former, non-fundraising colleague asked me a question recently that, frankly, I didn’t have the […]
#INTERVIEW: Paul Jolly of Jump Start Growth Explores The Spiritual Side Of Donors
Raising money for a nonprofit or charity is tough work. With the focus of the organization on fundraising, it is not surprising that outreach tends to focus on the numbers (the thousands who benefit from the nonprofit’s work, the millions required to keep such work going, the hundreds of people asked to give…). In this […]
#MKCPARTNER: Susan Emfinger, Development Guru, Joins the MKCREATIVE Blog as Contributor
When the folks @MKCREATIVE first asked me to contribute to the MKC Blog, I wondered what I might have to share that would be of value to the blog’s readers, many of whom are in the non-profit (charity) sector. After all, the University sector is, in so many ways, very different from the non-profit or […]
#WEBSITE: Let’s Talk About Soaps Website Launched
The Challenge: Hemmy Productions, a television production company based in New York City, needed a website to promote its fundraiser — a live broadcast event where soap stars, past and present, will come together to raise money and build awareness for soap starts suffering from cancer. The live event will be in support of the […]