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Focus for Fundraisers

Here at Agitator Global HQ we get lots and lots of press releases and requests to cover the next new thing. Payment systems. Crowd funding. Infographics. Video campaigns. Etc. Etc. All this ‘new, best thing’ stuff reminds me of those pesky water bugs that scooted across the surface on the lakes and ponds of my […]

Learn More December 8, 2015

Giving #Giving Tuesday A Purpose

Yes, I’m happy that #Giving Tuesday 2015 was a good time for all. What’s not to like about $117 million raised from 700,000 donors? Was it incremental giving or just a re-shuffle of gifts that would otherwise have been made on Monday or Friday? Who knows. I guess we can look at the appropriate comparables […]

Learn More December 7, 2015

The Charity “Membership” Ruse

Imagine you signed up for an annual gym membership in January and paid with a check (or cash for the Mafioso readers). Now further imagine that you also signed up for the gym’s “healthy eating” monthly email. What does the term annual connote to you? What about membership? Would you expect to have the gym […]

Learn More December 4, 2015

On Looking A Gift Horse In The Mouth

It’s been quite a week for watching the philanthropic parade go by — featuring gifts in size from one extreme to another and given through the widest variety of methods and channels in history. From the birth of Baby Max Zuckerberg and her parents’ $45 billion gift in her honor to be used toward “improving […]

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Struggling To Make A Better World

When I last looked, the nonprofit sector seemed to be struggling mightily, but not terribly successfully, to make a better world. What’s a ‘better world’? I’d say one devoid of interpersonal violence of any kind and one at peace, not war, with nature. I could be content with that. So forgive me for being a bit bemused […]

Learn More December 3, 2015

Don’t Ask. Don’t Thank.

Tom and I spend lots of time and spill lots of digital ink over building donor relationships, the importance of retention and donor experience. So I was mighty pleased to see that our UK fundraising friend Matthew Sherrington has managed to distill a lot of what we’ve had to say into a single post. In […]

Learn More December 2, 2015