StoryBoard HTX Houston Nonprofit Newsletter, April 19
Houston does love its nonprofit galas, but it may be time for a makeover. That and more in the latest edition of the Houston Nonprofit...
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Ken Wells
- Apr 16, 2022
- 1 min
How Do Your Communications Compare With Other Nonprofits?
Take our survey on communications trends for Houston nonprofits. You'll get the results and have the chance to win a prize! Houston is a...
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Ken Wells
- Apr 12, 2022
- 1 min
Study Points To Fear In Nonprofit-Land
The accounting firm BKD CPAs & Advisors has released its annual State of The Nonprofit Sector Survey and it shows an unprecedented level...
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Ken Wells
- Apr 12, 2022
- 5 min
Time to Seriously Rethink The Houston Nonprofit Gala
Too many times we think about nonprofit events as a standalone part of our fundraising. We need to use them to propel repeat donors and...
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Ken Wells
- Apr 6, 2022
- 1 min
Houston Nonprofit Newsletter - April 6, 2022
Here's what's new: New video: Communications, Marketing and Branding...Oh My! Longtime local nonprofit leader to retire Technology ought...
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Ken Wells
- Apr 5, 2022
- 1 min
Communications, Marketing And Brands...Oh My!
I've been reading a terrific book, Do More Good, by nonprofit marketing pioneer Bill McKendry. After nearly 30 years of working with...
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Ken Wells
- Apr 4, 2022
- 3 min
Technology Changes. Great Storytelling Doesn't
When I first started out in TV news, I worked with a photographer who had landed on Iwo Jima as a navy medic in World War II. He never...
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Ken Wells
- Mar 28, 2022
- 3 min
Nonprofits: The Quick, The Dead and The Zombies
Nonprofits are hard to kill. There were predictions when the pandemic started that more than a third of nonprofits would close as a...
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Ken Wells
- Mar 22, 2022
- 3 min
Inflation Seen As Shock To Nonprofit Sector
After two difficult years facing the challenges of COVID, nonprofits are dealing with yet another threat, inflation. Combined with the...
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Ken Wells
- Mar 21, 2022
- 5 min
What Nonprofits Can Learn About Survival From Microbrewers
The very first blog I wrote when I created the StoryBoard HTX website was a look at the unequal way that the pandemic hurt small profits,...
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Ken Wells
- Mar 14, 2022
- 1 min
StoryBoard HTX Houston Nonprofit Newsletter - March 10, 2022
Here's the latest Houston Nonprofit Newsletter. This week we look at: Are you doing great work, but not effectively telling your...
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Ken Wells
- Mar 9, 2022
- 3 min
Nonprofits That Don't Share Their Accomplishments Don't Thrive
I was talking with a nonprofit leader the other day about what made her mission stand out. At the end of the conversation, she added,...
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Ken Wells
- Mar 8, 2022
- 2 min
Can Funny and Fundraising Mix?
The # rule of fundraising is that urgency matters. Poverty, environmental disaster, and most of the causes that drive people to create...
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Ken Wells
- Mar 5, 2022
- 1 min
March 4 Houston Nonprofit Newsletter
Here's the latest StoryBoard HTX Houston Nonprofit Newsletter. In this edition: A lot has changed since the robber barons used charities...
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Ken Wells
- Mar 3, 2022
- 1 min
Wells Fargo Gives $20 Million To Houston's Mayor's Equity Fund
On February 24th, Wells Fargo announced that it is bankrolling a Houston equity initiative spearheaded by Mayor Sylvester Turner. The...
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Ken Wells
- Mar 3, 2022
- 2 min
Do you know your donors?
Apparently, philanthropy was simple 120 years ago. Get robber barons to use donations to buy their way into society. New research shows...
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Ken Wells
- Feb 22, 2022
- 3 min
What Nonprofits Can Learn From One of The Best Commercials Ever
It was late 1989. Airline ticket prices had been rising for four years and a recession was around the corner. United Airlines knew that...
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Ken Wells
- Feb 22, 2022
- 5 min
Making Social Media Work For You
By now you should know there are a few rules for social media. Don't talk about politics on LinkedIn. Don't talk about your Ex on...
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Ken Wells
- Feb 14, 2022
- 5 min
Is Facebook Your Frenemy?
This blog is part one of a hard look at nonprofits and social media. Part two will look at what nonprofits can do to improve their...
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Ken Wells
- Feb 11, 2022
- 1 min
When you talk to your volunteers, is it a conversation or a monologue?
Here's a number that may change the way you think about your nonprofit volunteers: $1374. That is the average dollar value of the time a...
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