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Embalming The Elephant – Release 1.0

It’s been 16 months since we announced The Agitator Data Liberation Crusade — a quest to make available fundamental data that’s of daily use to fundraisers free of charge or as near-free as possible. Our rationale for this Crusade aimed at benefitting both small and large nonprofits is explained in our post Fundraising Data and […]

Learn More March 14, 2017

How ‘Sustainable’ Is Your Organization?

Once upon a time, the question of the ‘sustainability’ of a nonprofit — the ability to deliver services over a long period — was largely limited to foundations and mega-donors concerned that their funds were being put to long and lasting use. In recent years, the question has migrated to the minds of more and […]

Learn More March 13, 2017

I Give It A ‘B’

Recently I received a Quarterly Impact Report from Possible, a nonprofit providing health care services in Nepal. It’s a modest-sized organization that has treated a bit over 300,000 patients in that one country since 2008. I watch this organization because I’m interested in the challenge of providing quality health care in the most demanding of circumstances. I […]

Learn More March 10, 2017

The Benefits Of Collaborative Fundraising

In Part 8 of The Agitator’s Barriers To Growth series I cited “Insufficient Collaboration” as one of the principal barriers. Of the more than 1 million nonprofits in the U.S., nearly 75% post annual revenues below $500,000. I noted that “this leaves little or no room for the ‘science’ part of fundraising like data analytics, […]

Learn More March 9, 2017

Spending On Retention Marketing

Target Marketing magazine conducted a year-end survey of 725 marketers (including readers of FundraisingPro) in December, asking how they would be spending their marketing dollars in 2017. I looked in particular at expected spending on retention. Of those surveyed 33% responded they would be increasing their spending on retention in 2017, with 45% holding it the […]

Learn More March 8, 2017

Has Your Organization Been Hacked?

Nonprofit groups breathing a sigh of relief because, unlike their organizational cousins in politics, they’re not targets of Russian hacking should take another and deeper breath–and gasp. Despite the current headlines and cable news furor over the astonishing and frightening firestorm of Donald Trump’s Tweets accusing his predecessor, President Obama, of wiretapping Trump Tower, this item appearing in Bloomberg News […]

Learn More March 7, 2017