Nonprofits have a lot going on. So, naturally, they have a lot to say. No one knows this better than Mari Irizarry, Director of Communications for Reel Works Teen Filmmaking, an organization dedicated to giving teen filmmakers the resources they need to make sure their own voices are heard. With mentors, programs, screenings, and upcoming [...]
When Jaclyn Jablkowski began working as the Communications Manager for Build It Green!NYC, she knew that she had her work cut out for her … literally. BIG!NYC specializes in salvaging materials from construction sites, residences, offices, and other sites that would otherwise be tossed into landfills. The organization accepts and collects materials like doors, windows, [...]
At Constant Contact, we love sharing success stories from our email marketing customers. We recently checked in with two nonprofits we had previously featured—Winter Park Harvest Festival and Fairy DogParents—to see how they had grown since we last spoke with them. They’re both relatively new organizations, having started in 2010 and 2009, respectively, so we [...]
It’s not easy to spread the word about a nonprofit. Volunteers are usually already juggling a million things at once and even getting a group meeting together can prove to be a challenge. A busy staff also means there isn’t a lot of time to consider new initiatives. That can make it harder still to [...]
Molly Feltner of Gorilla Doctors couldn’t have asked for a better end to 2011. After 25 years of providing emergency medical care to endangered gorillas in regions of Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the organization held a month long fundraiser in December and raised $100,000. That’s right—one month, $100,000! How did they [...]
One day, when Genevieve Piturro was volunteering at a shelter for homeless children in New York City, she decided to bring 12 pairs of pajamas to help the kids get ready for bed. When she arrived, she was surprised at the reaction: some children didn’t know what pajamas were. They had always just slept in [...]
Last year, Peggy Sweeney, founder of The Sweeney Alliance, an organization dedicated to helping people deal with grief, decided that she wanted to better spread the word about the nonprofit’s workshops and programs. For most of 2011, she had been sending print newsletters entitled “Journeys Through Grief” and maintaining a blog. Beyond that, she hadn’t [...]
Have you heard the story of The Dog with a Hole in His Heart? His life was saved when a Massachusetts-based nonprofit, Fairy Dogparents raised over $6,000 from just one email and paid for his lifesaving surgery. Anecdotes like these capture our attention and remind us of the selfless work being done by so many [...]
This past Valentine’s Day, a dog was suffering from a hole in his heart. Not a figurative hole, either. At the time, Skywalker was training to be a service dog for an eight-year-old autistic boy. The boy was so eager to help out his four-legged friend, he offered his Tooth Fairy money to help pay [...]
You may not think a pre-school can teach you much about marketing, but the Creative Play Center, a co-operative preschool and junior kindergarten in Pleasant Valley, Calif., has the newsletter to do just that. That wasn’t the case a year and a half ago. “We had a newsletter, but no one was really reading it, [...]