Nonprofit terms and lingo can be confusing.
Nonprofit

Nonprofit Terms You Should Know

Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) have their own commonly-used jargon, just like any other community. Nonprofit terms share many similarities with nomenclature used by regular for-profit businesses. The main differences come when describing sources of income and restrictions of their use. For anyone looking to start a nonprofit, or join one, there are a few exclusively nonprofit terms that …

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Bar and Restaurant

Why Quality Printing Is a Food Industry Necessity

The way we present food has drastically changed over several generations. We’re not talking about plating techniques or cooking shows either. The way we depict food in print has drastically changed, even from less than twenty years ago. Even when affordable color printing became available in the mid-2oth century, the overall effect was less than …

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Education

15 College Recruitment Posters That Break the Mold

According to the latest data, college enrollment has dropped from approximately 21 million in 2010 to 20.2 million in 2014. Forecasts predict the pattern will hold through 2016 and beyond. This drop in enrollment has spurred institutions of higher learning to increase their marketing efforts, with a corresponding increase in the sophistication of their college …

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Hotel

4 Ways to Make the Most of Your Hotel Door Hangers

Whether as a simple way to tell the staff a room is ready for cleaning, as a means to offer different services, or simply as a giveaway, hotel door hangers are an expected part of the “hotel experience.” It’s unfortunate so many hotels seem to phone it in with their door hangers. But as with everything else …

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How to Start a Nonprofit Organization
Nonprofit

How to Start a Nonprofit Organization…The Right Way

Few opportunities are as rewarding as working or volunteering for a nonprofit– except perhaps for starting them! If you think working for a nonprofit isn’t rewarding enough, or if you have an advocacy other nonprofits don’t address, you can try starting one. We compiled this list to help you figure out how to start a nonprofit …

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Nonprofit

7 Ways Marketing for Nonprofit Organizations Fails

Marketing for nonprofit organizations is not much different from marketing for any other enterprise. The problem is it seems that many nonprofits (NPOs) don’t realize this, or at least haven’t quite internalized it. This often leads nonprofits to be less effective than for-profit enterprises with similar initial capitalization. Here are some areas NPO marketing fails. 7.) …

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