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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We join with our Circulation Manager in wishing you a Happy New Year accompanied by all our best wishes that your Resolutions make it through the next 365 days. Which brings us to last of The Agitator’s Top Ten for 2015. Yes, we’re carrying these last two into this first day of 2016 because we’re […]

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Best Of The Agitator – 2015 – Innovation and Myth

There’s no question in our minds that the fundraising trade relies heavily on myth and is a bit light on innovation. Often the myths masquerade as ‘best practices’ and go empirically unchallenged for years and years. When challenged there is usually quite a dust up as folks move to defend those ‘best practices’ –even in […]

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Best Of The Agitator – 2015 – Bold Losers And Winners

Here at The Agitator we place a high premium on guts and risk-taking. After all, solving the world’s problems requires a lot of both. Sometimes breaking the mold means swimming upstream against conventional wisdom. Sometimes it means bucking the conventional go-along-to-get along mindset that infects too much of the nonprofit world. Apparently our readers feel […]

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Best Of The Agitator – 2015 – Direct Mail Still Not Dead

Over the 10 years we’ve been agitating, few topics are the subject of more debate than the all-too-familiar prognostication that direct mail is either dead or dying. We’ve never bought into that myth as you can see from this 2012 post, Direct Mail: The Exquisite Corpse. And neither have a good many of our readers. (For an […]

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Best Of The Agitator – 2015 – Trends and Predictions

Here’s our wrap-up of the most read and shared Agitator posts of 2015. From the resurgence of direct mail to a direct mail flop, with trends and predictions for the future of fundraising in between, the tastes of Agitator readers proved to be far-ranging. Arguably there are plenty of other posts just as good, but hey, […]

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We Suggest You Have A Merry Christmas

Roger and Tom

Learn More December 24, 2015