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What Covid-19 Relief is Your Nonprofit Receiving? A Checklist of Opportunities

In “We’re All In This Together” is Horseshit” I castigated some consumer companies for their disingenuous and near-universal language proclaiming their shared concern with us while pressing their under-paid and under-protected “essential” employees to serve those of us privileged enough to be safe at home. To be fair, I did see some advertising from insurance companies, […]

Learn More May 26, 2020

Memorial Day 2020

MOURN. REMEMBER.

Learn More May 25, 2020

Christmas In Your Mailbox

These days my digital inbox is overpowered with vapid and annoying messages fired three times an hour mostly by various candidates and committees affiliated with the Democratic Party. (If this is the way they treat us donors I wonder about their skill set when it comes to beating Trump?) Between the spurts of political drivel […]

Learn More May 22, 2020

We Don’t Write So Good

Writing well is hard. Hunter S. Thompson famously re-typed a fiction book just to know what if felt like. That’s either crazy or brilliant. Either way, it’s commitment. Hemingway rewrote the first part of “A Farewell to Arms” at least fifty times. He also advised, “don’t get discouraged, there’s a lot of mechanical work to […]

Learn More May 20, 2020

Crowdfunding: A Lesson from World War II

As a kid growing up in rural Pennsylvania I got my news via the BBC on a short wave radio tucked under my bed. Gettysburg’s local radio station, WGET, was heavy on corn and hog prices, light on national and world news. To this day I listen to the BBC with their news and […]

Learn More May 18, 2020

Thank View Very Much

I’m certain all Agitator readers have been devoting their locked-down hours concentrating on donor experience and retention, while far too many of those non-Agitator folks have been frittering away time perfecting their Netflix schedule. Consequently, as a reward for your diligence I want to introduce you to a powerful, easy-to-use tool that’s about as wonderful as […]

Learn More May 15, 2020