By Steve Smith
President Trump's 2018 budget request, delivered to Congress on Tuesday has roiled the medical and science community with a call for massive cuts in spending on scientific research, medical...
Posted May 25, 2017
By The CCM Team
American Stroke Awareness Month (promoted by the National Stroke Association)
Arthritis Awareness Month
Better Hearing and Speech Month
National Celiac Disease Awareness Month
Cystic Fibrosis...
Posted April 30, 2017
By Steve Smith
Recently posted to the Social Strategy Blog, this “big list” of top web design trends for 2017 offers lots of things to consider. You will need some time to go through it, but...
Posted April 23, 2017
By Steve Smith
Fundraising consultant Michael J. Rosen, writing in the current edition of AFP’s Advancing Philanthropy, claims that great opportunities exist for proactive fundraising professionals.
One of...
Posted April 07, 2017
By Steve Smith
Some are saying it sounds like the name of a heavy metal band, but I think it sounds more like someone being punched in the stomach. “Oath” is the new name for the AOL/Yahoo brand. The...
Posted April 04, 2017
By Association of Fundraising Professionals
Overall giving increased 1.0 percent and online giving grew 7.9 percent in the U.S. compared to 2015, according to Blackbaud’s fifth annual Charitable Giving Report.
Released under the...
Posted March 31, 2017
By Claire Axelrad
No matter who you are, the size of your nonprofit budget or the length of time you’ve been in business, in today’s world you need ‘social content marketing.’ This is a term...
Posted March 22, 2017
By Dan Scalco
Seth Godin famously said, “Content marketing is the only marketing left," and for good reason. Creating your own content provides your business with a variety of untapped opportunities to...
Posted March 22, 2017
By The CCM Team
Alcohol Awareness Month
National Autism Awareness Month
National Child Abuse Prevention Month
National Donate Life Month
National Facial Protection Month
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)...
Posted March 21, 2017
By David Chesnick
I think about Charles Kuralt a lot. For those who don’t remember him, Kuralt was a correspondent for CBS. He traveled the country’s back roads with a small crew in a motor home talking...
Posted March 13, 2017
By Steve Smith
Every once in a while a brand does something so stupid, you have to say, "What were they thinking?" This is clearly one of those times. As reported in Variety and picked up by Adweek, Twentieth...
Posted February 15, 2017
By Steve Smith
Something I saw on TV during the holidays was so good, it made me think, maybe there’s hope for the advertising business after all! The Amazon Prime TV spot we showcase in this edition of CMN...
Posted January 04, 2017
By Steve Smith
Who knew the next battle in the aftermath of a presidential election that established new lows in American politics would be fought at the breakfast table? Have we now entered into a whole new low...
Posted December 02, 2016
Here's a great little piece that came across my radar screen today. From Fast Company, helpful advice for anyone who needs to "play well with others."
Posted October 19, 2016
I’ve often said Honda and Toyota have had some of the industry’s stupidest advertising. It’s safe to say most of their efforts to reach the Millennial demographic have just been embarrassing....
Posted October 14, 2016
