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We Pause The Year In Review for This Serious Rant

I was moving along to finish Part 2 of my Year in Review post when a Tweet storm caught my eye. Usually, I ignore ‘em while writing, but this series struck a nerve. In fact, it reveals how we so ignore and frustrate basic donor needs that I wonder how we even survive. Consequently, I’m […]

Learn More January 3, 2020

The Year in Review: Part 1

Happy New Year! This is the perfect time to invoke the spirit of Janus, the Roman god who looked both forward and backward. Looking at the state of fundraising back in 2019 and forward into 2020 I think three things ae true at the same time. Fundraising is much worse. Fundraising is terrible. Fundraising will […]

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Fundraisers Abandon Ship

This post first appeared on August 19, 2019 Not only is the nonprofit sector doing a lousy job holding on to donors, we’re apparently equally awful when it comes to retaining nonprofit fundraisers. In a recent survey conducted by The Harris Poll for The Chronicle of Philanthropyand AFP, using a self-selected sample of American and […]

Learn More December 30, 2019

REPEAT: Thanks, But No Thanks-Part 2

Thanks to everyone involved in the robust discussion here and on social media about the study of thank you calling on subsequent giving Kiki and Roger discussed Monday. In particular, discussion from Penelope Burk and other minds in fundraising have centered on who calls, when they call, and what is said. I’ll have a brief […]

Learn More December 28, 2019

Thank You: 2019’s Most Popular Post

For the next two weeks –until everyone’s back from the holidays or recovered from year-end exhaustion– we’ll re-run some of 2019’s most popular Agitator posts. This year’s most popular and comment-provoking entry was titled (or mis-titled) Thanks, But No Thanks. The post reported on a study of thank you calls to 500,000 public broadcasting donors […]

Learn More December 26, 2019

We Suggest You Have A Merry Christmas

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Learn More December 25, 2019