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People support people, not emails. Some fundraising lessons from the Art of Gathering.
7 behaviors of habit building organizations
How to create habits and help your readers, supporters and members become regulars.
The existential elephant this year end
Nonprofits and news organizations are going to be facing more and more threats to their ability to operate. Can year-end communications, including fundraising campaigns, do more to inform and organize supporters about risks to the sector.
We and us: Together like our future depends on it
How we shift our work and communications from individualism to the collective we need now.
Extreme risk
Building communications for community, resilience, and solutions. Not just more individualism. Plus 45 new Future Community Jobs.
Could inefficiency save us?
On tech narratives, efficiency, power, and turning your team into consistent content creators. And 35 new Future Community Jobs.
Save your communications with consistency
Consistency is an unsung superhero of communications, fundraising, and marketing.
Hope and Futility and Friday Future Community Jobs
You can't get the whale off the beach (or that next job) alone.
5 ways nonprofits can raise money with newsletters
Use subscriptions, premium content, peer-to-peer and more to bring in new and increased revenue with newsletters.
Adaptation, diversity and interdependence: Biology lessons for organizations
Biological lessons for organizations hoping to survive and thrive in a time of chaos.
More dance breaks. Less nihilism please.
We're talking about combating nihilism with more in person work (more dancing?), the death of partying, and some great new jobs and events to share!
How to grow your newsletter (a soil based framework)
Growing newsletters, the video stylings of New York mayoral candidates, and the job search arms race.
Nonprofit newsletter growth strategies
A guide for nonprofits who need to understand newsletter growth goals and options.