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My Friday Fermentation

On Fridays some folks unwind with mates at the pub … others flee for an airport to get home in time to see the kids … others make that list of weekend chores. Here at The Agitator we’re all business of course. Tom ends his week by feeding Priscilla, his piggy bank (otherwise known as the […]

Learn More April 29, 2016

In Love With Visuals

I enjoyed this piece — Understanding our love of visual content — on the importance of visuals in communications. Not too heavy. Some persuasive factoids. A good reminder for us writers to pay attention to images. And I’ll confess right now, The Agitator does a poor job at using visuals. Or at least I do. […]

Learn More April 28, 2016

Giving Back To The Future

The news last week that the Hartsook Companies had made a major contribution to The Hartsook Centre for Sustainable Philanthropy at Plymouth University in the UK is great and encouraging news on a variety of fronts. First, this gift helps advance the important academic work of the Centre’s Adrian Sargeant and Jen Shang. Their dedicated and […]

Learn More April 27, 2016

Spring Cleaning

Need some ideas for ‘Spring cleaning’ in your fundraising operation? Probably best to look at those things you’ve buried in the deepest closet of your mind, hoping they somehow would just fade from memory … until next Spring. Maybe it’s stuff in the ‘too boring’ or ‘too hard’ categories. At the risk of jolting you […]

Learn More April 26, 2016

Fixing Hidden Leaks #6: Slow To Load Website

In Tom’s recent post New Digital Benchmarks summarizing the extensive online 2016 findings by M+R, he noted a key observation by M+R on why some organizations are doing better than others: “These leaders are for the most part doing just a little bit better in a lot of different places. They’re pushing harder on the same sorts […]

Learn More April 25, 2016

#Goodbye Andrew. #Hello Harriet.

Thanks to the brilliant marketing and campaigning of the nonprofit organization Women on 20s, the US Treasury Department announced it will put women on American currency for the first time in more than a century — and an African American woman for the first time in the nation’s history. Harriet Tubman, a former slave and leader of […]

Learn More April 22, 2016