Successful Nonprofit
Brands
We think of brand as
Brand is
everything
More than logo
Build it & they will
come
Grounded & responsive
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brand
How does your brand show up?
Who’s your audience?
Differentiate
Differentiate
Differentiate
Trust & connection
Never done
Brand is
sacrifice
Focus
What your brand
can’t do
Transparent
& authentic,
or else
Managing & living
your brand
Share before control
Why before how
Know your audience
Seattle Works
Brand exercise
Brand Evaluation
        !   Where are
          they
          strongest?

        !   Where can
          they
          improve?
Robin Hood update
“When I teach CRAM now, I have made the M into
messenger as a way to discuss the increasing
importance of WHO is speaking for a cause.  I
think the WHO is the power of social media.”
My four questions for testing CRAM, which I
developed post-book.  You’ve got to answer for
your audience:
 Why me? What for?
Why now? Who says?

Building successful nonprofit brands