Jordana Merkin helps nonprofits clarify their messaging to attract and engage with the right people for them. Subscribe to have actionable nonprofit messaging and communications tips and insights delivered straight to your inbox.
What would your grandmother say?
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Jordana Merkin, Voice for Good
Jordana Merkin helps nonprofits clarify their messaging to attract and engage with the right people for them. Subscribe to have actionable nonprofit messaging and communications tips and insights delivered straight to your inbox.
Hi Reader, My brother recently wished my daughter a happy half birthday in our family chat. She doesn't have a phone, so she responded from mine: Thank you so much 😊🤍💙😍🙄🙃😜😂💯❤️🎉😮💪😉🤪🤢🤨🥴😍😛 Then she sent a separate text — just to clarify that she'd sent the first one.I told her she didn't need to do that. We were never at risk of anyone thinking that was me.My voice and my 9.5-year-old's voice are not the same.Your audience should know your organization's voice too. If you removed your logo from...
Hi Reader, You know that friend who only reaches out when they need something? No one likes that friend.But sometimes our organizations act like that friend when we don't communicate with our people between fundraising asks. In leading your nonprofit, you should be thinking about your next ask, but it's important to reach out to your supporters when you're not asking too. Otherwise, they'll start to think of you as the friend who only shows up when you need something. Here are four ways to...
Hi Reader, "Hiring a consultant always ends up being a lot of work for us," one nonprofit executive director told me. Then she hired me. She wasn't wrong about the work, but she also understood that putting in the effort on a messaging guide now is an investment in a more effective and efficient future for your organization. The messaging guide process asks real things of your team: a detailed questionnaire, strategy calls, and honest reflection on who you are and where you're headed. It's...