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Unnecessary Fundraising Fire in Canada

Just as Canadians were responding in heroic ways to the Alberta fires — including digging deep in their pockets — a most unhelpful and self-appointed nonprofit watchdog named Charity Intelligence took to the public airways in a manner certain to confuse donors. With the devastation at Fort McMurray and the horrific plight of nearly 90,000 […]

Learn More May 9, 2016

Mother’s Day Confessions and Celebrations

Sometimes even hard-hearted Editors give in. And wipe a tear or two. Let’s end the week with Lisa Sargent’s plea that we all get along. While we harbor lots of doubts about consultants and the get-to-it-alone low energy of most nonprofits we hear your plea, Lisa. R0ger, spirited and disagreeable as ever will weigh in on […]

Learn More May 6, 2016

Wanted More Than Ever: Human Duct Tape

It’s so much easier rolling the rock up the hill with pals and true believers like those Agitators who’ve been been weighing in this week in response to our posts Who Gets Fired?, Rejecting The One Acq Stand and Roger Started It! Clearly, they understand that the business of acquiring donors ain’t over with the initial contribution, just as the building […]

Learn More May 5, 2016

Roger Started It!

We have a great conversation going on here at The Agitator this week. I hope you’re paying attention. In Who Gets Fired?, Roger started it by advancing the proposition that — unfortunately — no one in the fundraising business gets fired because of lousy retention rates. Which is another way of saying that no one […]

Learn More May 4, 2016

Rejecting The One Acq Stand

In his post yesterday, Who Gets Fired?, Roger voiced his doubt that very many fundraisers, if any at all, are compensated on the basis of success at retaining donors. “Who gets fired when your retention rates drop?” he asked. In a comment to that post, Lisa Sargent escalated the issue: “…if an agency or consultant gets […]

Learn More May 3, 2016

Who Gets Fired?

I’m continually amazed so many organizations ignore feedback from their donors. Feedback that would enable them to improve retention rates and lifetime value. They simply hit the ‘mute’ button. How stupid can you get? Despite the fact that it’s so much easier to measure how digital things are being used, I doubt that even 1 […]

Learn More May 2, 2016