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Are You Fundraising With a Sledgehammer While Looking Out the Rearview Mirror?

What do you know about your donors? Not generalities but specifics about your donors and why they support your cause? One generality common across most groups is that “our donors are older”. The precondition here is that younger people are less likely to stick around (and/or give in first place) than older people. If your […]

Learn More September 2, 2020

Trump’s or Biden’s Convention Speech: Which Was Better?

There are myriad ways to answer that question. We chose to stay above the opining fray and analyzed each speech based on linguistic features using our Copy Optimizer. As a refresher, the Copy Optimizer analyzes parts of speech by tagging each word and using algorithms to ‘dimensionalize” parts of speech on two continuums, Involving vs. […]

Learn More August 31, 2020

Going Postal

I live a split existence. Part of my day is devoted to writing copy aimed at defeating Donald Trump and helping the people he harms. The other part is devoted to ferreting out information and insights I hope are of empirical help to you and other Agitator readers. This professional paradox is certainly present when […]

Learn More August 28, 2020

If Money Were a Person

Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A dollar bill walks into a bar… Anthropomorphism, that mouthful of a word with onomatopoeia (now we’re just doing a weird flex, Google it) like qualities is when we imbue objects or animals with human qualities. You know, like The Little Engine Who Could or Winnie the Pooh […]

Learn More August 26, 2020

The Case for More Abstraction in Fundraising

People give to achieve a goal and reinforce their values. Those goals and values differ based on the subconscious Identity “hat” the donor is wearing (e.g. Globalist when considering a gift to UNICEF, Conservationist when giving to The Nature Conservancy, Dog lover when giving to the local humane society). But they aren’t really giving to […]

Learn More August 24, 2020

Back to The Future

Marketing scholars had the chance to work with a local chapter of a national health charity. This is their story. The local chapter in Texas had limited funds and internal capacity and despite this, or perhaps because of it, the academics were able to experiment. The academic’s situation analysis revealed the following challenges, An uninformed […]

Learn More August 21, 2020

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Are You Fundraising With a Sledgehammer While Looking Out the Rearview Mirror?