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On our blog we share news and talk about some of the projects that we are working on currently. We will also share things that we find interesting. If you’ve got anything you’d like to share with us – please get in touch.

Using the non-profit portfolio sort

Sunday, January 3rd, 2021

Bumping this post – as I’ve had quite a lot of questions recently about how to prioritise services and products – and this is a good, simple tool to get the discussions started. It is flexible enough to be used across a whole organisation or within different teams. Get in touch if you have any […]

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How to measure the things that matter

Tuesday, October 20th, 2020

Evaluating communications Four years ago, at the first workshop I ran at the DSC charity writing and communications training days a participant called Rose asked me:  When evaluating communications, how do you know you are measuring the things that matter rather than just measuring the things you expect to see? It was a good question. […]

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Hudson vs Merrilees – the battle of brands and income generation

Thursday, July 2nd, 2020

“Branding should be a critical issue for charities because it has been shown to impact dramatically on income.” (Hudson, 2008) vs “Brand is seen as a cost not a strategic investment.” (Merrilees, 2007) Sound familiar? As a bit of a self-confessed non-profit brand nerd I had been spotting quite a lot of articles in the […]

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Rebrand for Red Pencil revealed

Thursday, February 2nd, 2017

“Your organisation doesn’t stay still and your brand needs to adapt to reflect those changes.” We often start conversations with the charities we work with on rebranding project and we thought that we should apply that principle to Red Pencil too. Practice what we preach, etc. So on 23 September 2016 at the CharityComms’ inaugural […]

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