Completely satisfied Holidays to our superior readers! Let’s kick off this week of free stuff with:
Month-to-month Nonprofit Writing Prompts
Let’s take some of the grief out of nonprofit writing and smash via your author’s block!
At first of every month, we’ll ship you an e-mail with at the least 10 prompts to get you eager about articles, tales, press releases, weblog posts, Fb updates, letters, and different content material that you can write for the next month. For instance, in the beginning of January, you’d get writing prompts for February. That approach you’ll have time to consider the concepts and incorporate them into your calendar.
The thought isn’t to do your editorial calendar for you or to inform you what to say to your supporters. Solely you’ll be able to determine that out. What we will do is provide you with at the least 10 prompts to get you pondering extra creatively and strategically about what you’ll write. See our concepts for January under.
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Listed below are the prompts for January 2020:
On the Calendar
1/01: New 12 months’s Day. Share your resolutions and plans for the brand new 12 months. Ask your supporters so as to add a cause-related decision to their very own lists.
1/04: Trivia Day. Stump your readers with questions on your trigger or enjoyable details about your workers or volunteers.
01/10: Peculiar Individuals Day. Rejoice these out-of-the-box thinkers and quirky individuals who make your group run.
01/13: Make Your Dream Come True Day. Share an superior story about somebody you helped. Or ask your supporters to assist make another person’s desires come true.
1/18: Thesaurus Day. Clarify some complicated phrases or different jargon related together with your trigger and inform supporters what phrases they need to use as a substitute. Then present everybody in your group and cease utilizing jargon!
1/20: Martin Luther King Day (US). Encourage your readers to dream and rise up for what is correct.
1/24: Praise Day. Say good issues about your supporters, or about different group’s working in your discipline.
1/25: Reverse Day. Share what your neighborhood can be like in case your group didn’t exist.
1/28: Enjoyable at Work Day. Ask your followers to share their humorous photos at work or you’ll be able to share what your workers does to unwind. Recommend methods to create a much less annoying workplace tradition.
1/31: Encourage Your Coronary heart with Artwork Day. Encourage supporters to ship in drawings, images or different inventive items that commemorate your trigger. Or function purchasers’ art work.
Different dates in January:
January can be:
- Nationwide Interest Month
- Nationwide Mentoring Month
- Psychological Wellness Month
- Wholesome Weight Consciousness Month
Metaphor of the Month
This month’s metaphor is Well being and Health. Take into consideration new 12 months’s resolutions, gyms, Fitbits/Apple Watches, train, treadmills, calorie counting, weighing in, private trainers, vitamin, operating, maintaining a healthy diet, sports activities, yoga, nutritional vitamins, and annual physicals.
How are you going to relate these items to your group?
Pop Tradition, Occasions, and Information
Count on posts on traits for the brand new 12 months and decision options.
The NFL playoffs will start January 4th.
The faculty soccer championship recreation is ready for Monday, January 13th.
The 2020 Girls’s March is deliberate for January 18th.
The Golden Globes, hosted by Ricky Gervais, will happen on January fifth, and Oscar nominations can be introduced January 13.
In different awards information, the Critic’s Selection Awards are on the 12th and the Grammy Awards are on the 26th.
TV premieres embrace Physician Who, Deputy, Dr. Pimple Popper [Ew. Why?], Bare and Afraid, The Bachelor, America’s Received Expertise: The Champions, Manifest, black-ish, Schitt’s Creek [Ew, David], a reboot of 90’s Occasion of 5, AJ and the Queen, The Good Physician, Star Trek: Picard, Shrill, and The Good Place.
Supply of the Month
Analytics. Run your Google analytics and see what the preferred matters have been and what persons are looking out on to search out your web site. Base your content material round these key phrases and searches.
If you want concepts despatched to your inbox a month upfront, enroll for our Month-to-month Nonprofit Writing Prompts. I ship this e-mail e-newsletter the primary week of each month with prompts for the next month. For instance, I’ll e-mail the prompts for February, 2020 on January 2, 2020. Enroll now to get prompts emailed to you month-to-month.
