Pandemic Creates More Planning and Collaboration on Communications

Within the survey for the upcoming 2021 Nonprofit Communications Developments Report, we requested three questions in regards to the impression of the pandemic on your communications work.

A majority of nonprofits mentioned they did extra communications planning (63%) and that the extent of inside collaboration on the communications workload went up (57%) because of the pandemic.

Solely 22% mentioned the extent of planning stayed the identical, whereas simply 15% mentioned they did much less planning than a typical 12 months. Equally, 33% mentioned the extent of collaboration was about the identical as a typical 12 months, with 11% saying they noticed much less collaboration because of the pandemic.

We additionally requested about how the pandemic affected the extent of management communicators felt they’d over their very own workload. Whereas we see the extra planning and collaboration as a optimistic general, on this query, we noticed some unhealthy information.

Thirty-nine p.c mentioned the pandemic meant they’d much less management over their workload, whereas 41% mentioned it was about the identical as typical 12 months. Solely 21% of survey contributors mentioned the pandemic gave them extra management.

We’ll share extra reflections from the survey on the impression of the pandemic on nonprofit communicators in a future publish.