But Didn't The Post Office Just Raise Rates? Postal rates are going up on July 10th and, yes, they did just go up. The last increase was...

Y’all, we’ve got to change our ways. Here is a sampling of things I have seen Houston nonprofits do: Hold events without a communications...

Last week StoryBoard HTX released a survey of Houston communications trends. One thing really caught us by surprise. The top priority for...

A recent blogpost said there are four types of social media users and each one has its own personality. What about the social media...

StoryBoard HTX Houston Nonprofit Newsletter, May 2022 In this week's newsletter: We release our first ever poll of Houston nonprofit...

We just finished our first survey of Houston nonprofit communications trends. The main takeaway is that if you are feeling overwhelmed by...

Nonprofits are raising pay at rates we haven't seen in 20 years. Monthly donors are on the rise in the country. If you want to know how...

Measuring the effectiveness of your nonprofit's communications can feel like trying to find your car keys in the dark while wearing...

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...

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...

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...

Here's what's new: New video: Communications, Marketing and Branding...Oh My! Longtime local nonprofit leader to retire Technology ought...

I've been reading a terrific book, Do More Good, by nonprofit marketing pioneer Bill McKendry. After nearly 30 years of working with...

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...

Nonprofits are hard to kill. There were predictions when the pandemic started that more than a third of nonprofits would close as a...

After two difficult years facing the challenges of COVID, nonprofits are dealing with yet another threat, inflation. Combined with the...

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,...

Here's the latest Houston Nonprofit Newsletter. This week we look at: Are you doing great work, but not effectively telling your...

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,...

The # rule of fundraising is that urgency matters. Poverty, environmental disaster, and most of the causes that drive people to create...