Have some gaps to fill in your editorial calendar for subsequent month? The ideas under ought to assist! (When you aren’t utilizing an editorial calendar we HIGHLY advocate you do! You’ll be able to study Every thing You Have to Learn about Editorial Calendars for 2021 in our subsequent two-part webinar sequence.)
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On the Calendar
11/7: Guide Lovers Day. Share your favourite books referring to the work your nonprofit does.
11/11: Veteran’s Day. Spotlight volunteers, workers, or shoppers who’ve served within the navy.
11/13: World Kindness Day. Characteristic these volunteers who go above and past making your shoppers really feel cherished. Or share how your supporters can present kindness to others in a approach that aligns along with your trigger.
11/15: America Recycles Day. Share how your group recycles. For a twist, strive “recycling” previous content material that acquired a superb response.
11/15: Nationwide Philanthropy Day. Acknowledge your biggest supporters.
11/20: Absurdity Day. Take the chance to do one thing loopy! Social media is nice for these sorts of issues. Or dispel an absurd notion individuals consider about your group.
11/26: Thanksgiving (U.S.). Thank supporters, shoppers, and volunteers. E mail messages of gratitude round Thanksgiving are an effective way to kick off a sequence of fundraising emails in November and December.
November can be:
- Nationwide American Indian Heritage Month
- Nationwide Diabetes Consciousness Month
- Nationwide Adoption Consciousness Month
- Nationwide Epilepsy Month
- Peanut Butter Lovers Month
- Nationwide Alzheimer’s Illness Consciousness Month
- Nationwide Caregiver Month
You even have:
- November 2: Dio De los Muertos ends
- November 19: Nice American Smokeout
- November 15-24: Nationwide Starvation and Homelessness Consciousness Week
- November 16: Worldwide Day of Tolerance
- November 17: World Prematurity Day
- November 20: World Youngsters’s Day
- November 25: Worldwide Day for the Elimination of Violence In opposition to Ladies
Metaphor of the Month
This month’s metaphor is Buying. Take into consideration gross sales, bargains, costs, Amazon, mark-downs, malls, Black Friday, close-outs, grocery lists, procuring carts, aisles, money register, traces, secret consumers, credit score, returns, eBay, yard gross sales, comfort retailer, coupons.
How will you relate these items to your group?
Pop Tradition, Occasions, and Information
Daylight Financial savings Time ends on November 1st.
Election Day within the US is November third. This and its aftermath will dominate the information for fairly some time.
The highest November 2020 film releases are Let Him Go, The Christmas Chronicles: Half Two, Freaky, Stillwater and Buddy Video games. (A few of these are streaming and some might be in theaters which might be open.)
TV exhibits premiering this month embrace The Good Physician, B Optimistic, Mother, Younger Sheldon, Moonbase 8, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans, Business, Sprint & Lily, A Trainer, Chicago Hearth, Chicago Med and Chicago PD, The Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis, SWAT, Gray’s Anatomy, Regulation & Order: SVU, Station 19, The Blacklist, Chick Combat, The Crown, His Darkish Supplies, Large Sky, A Million Little Issues, Animaniacs, and Saved By the Bell in addition to LOTS of Vacation/Christmas specials.
The Leonid meteor bathe reaches its peak round November 17th.
The busiest procuring day of the yr, Black Friday, is November 27th.
Supply of the Month
Sharing Your Progress. Earlier than kicking off your year-end giving campaigns, be sure to have correctly shared your victories and highlights of the yr giving your supporters credit score for all of it.
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