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What Do You Do With An Envelope?

In a recent, reasonably intelligent Adweek article reviewing giving by millennials, Dennis McCarthy at Blackbaud commented: “My 23-year-old son wouldn’t know what to do with an envelope.” I’d say the same about my 22-year-old daughter. Among other handicaps, she doesn’t have a checkbook. But she does have a bank account and manages to shop online, […]

Learn More June 7, 2016

Protecting Michael Moore AND The Koch Brothers

Have the names of your contributors been illegally and publicly exposed by the Attorney General of California? See for yourself. Here’s a 116-page list of organizations whose major contributors were “inadvertently” made public on the website of the California AG. This is the third week in a row I’ve found it necessary to single out the […]

Learn More June 6, 2016

And The Ingrates Keep Expecting More!

Here’s some new bad news for fundraisers about customer service. Why is this bad news? Because these damn ungrateful consumers/customers/donors just seem to keep raising the bar … all the time expecting more and better customer service. And punishing the organisations that fail to deliver to these heightened expectations. The infographic below from JitBit delivers […]

Learn More June 3, 2016

Victory Is Ours!

The California “Warning Label” bill is dead. Killed in its crib by a fusillade of Agitator reader opposition and the outcry of nonprofits within California and all around the globe. Thanks to hundreds of tweets, blog posts, emails and phone calls from Agitators who rallied to the call, Urgent Warning: Immediate Action Required, this threat has […]

Learn More June 2, 2016

Could It Be ‘The Product’?

So much fundraising advice I see — including the advice offered by The Agitator — addresses the ‘how’ question. How to improve retention? How to calculate and use lifetime value? How to use online video? How to master the mobile channel? How to get donor feedback? How to make fewer appeals, yet raise more money? How […]

Learn More June 1, 2016

What Are You?

Are you really a Fundraiser? Or, are you just a Fundraising Monitor? “Why monitor a problem if you don’t fix it?” Here at The Agitator we sure do a lot of monitoring. Tom and I think we should also be doing more along the lines of encouraging, debating and reporting on ‘fixing’. It’s clear from […]

Learn More May 31, 2016