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What A 5 Year-Old Can Teach You About Donor Retention

Irish fundraiser Simon Scriver produces a near-constant flow of bits and pieces on his Twitter feed (@ToastFundraiser). Some relate to fundraising, some to charity doings and some simply to the hilarity of the human condition. I was particularly struck by his recent Tweet below announcing that his five year-old understands and is acting upon a […]

Learn More January 5, 2017

Your Key Metrics In Minutes For A Stellar 2017

It’s fashionable these days for many nonprofit fundraisers and their consultants to claim they’re ‘data-driven’. Problem is, most folks focus on the ‘data’ part of the slogan; few understand the requirements of the second word — ‘driven’. I’m making this observation again at the start of the year because if you haven’t already done so, now is […]

Learn More January 4, 2017

What’s Your Attitude For 2017?

Of course Roger and I wish you all the best for 2017. Have a great year! But the festivities are over (unless you live in New Zealand, where we tend to chill out for the entire month of January). Time to get down to business. And I wonder what attitude you are bringing to your […]

Learn More January 3, 2017

Best of 2016: Would You Approve This Campaign?

We’ve been sifting through our posts for a few ‘must-reads’ from 2016. Here’s one that is mostly in praise of someone’s else’s excellent work. Being the Agitators that we are, we’ll have plenty of advice and opinion on offer in 2017. But for now, to close out 2016, we simply urge you in the year ahead: […]

Learn More December 30, 2016

Best of 2016: More Gold For The Lapsed Donor Mine

We sifted through our posts for a few of the ‘most-read’ of 2016. Perhaps as the year closes, you’re regretting losing as many donors as you did. Can they be retrieved? Here are two posts (including the article linked to in the first sentence below), with very useful supporting links and comments, that provide a […]

Learn More December 29, 2016

Best of 2016: What’s Next?

We’ve sifted through our files for a few of our most-read posts of 2016. Here’s the advice Roger gave fundraisers the day after the US Presidential election went to Donald Trump. What’s Next? We all woke up on this post-election morning to uncertainty and turmoil. What does the election of Donald Trump mean? Of course, […]

Learn More December 28, 2016