Using Pinterest to Plan Your Nonprofit

For many years, I have used Pinterest to gather ideas for big, personal projects: planning events, renovating my home, collecting dinner recipes, and–perhaps my biggest project of all!–raising my daughter.

It occurred to me only in the last year that I could also use Pinterest to plan my nonprofit. #facepalm

Now there are not nearly as many nonprofit pins as there are, say, hairstyle or home decor pins, but they are there. And their number is growing.

In that spirit, I have started curating boards just for nonprofit leaders like you who could use easy access to the best communications + board development ideas out there. I have a board for newsletter tips, a board for storytelling, a board for social media, and more.

I invite you to join me over on Pinterest. Follow my boards that resonate with you, that can help you to solve the communications + board development challenges you are facing. Check in often–I add new pins and boards on a weekly basis.

And better still, create some boards of your own. If you are new to Pinterest, here are two suggestions for maximizing your time and the resources you find:

• Create a board for each topic. Instead of starting a general "Nonprofit" board, have smaller boards, like "Nonprofit Website Makeover Ideas" or "Nonprofit Board Recruitment Tips." In this way, it will be easier to find the resources you like later on, rather than scrolling through 10s, or even 100s, of pins on a single board.
• Be a curator, not a squirrel. When you are searching on Pinterest, it is so tempting to pin everything in sight. But take a minute to consider the quality of the information you find before you pin. Again, it will be easier to locate the most useful resources right when you need them instead of sifting through a whole lot of chaff.