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Is It Time For You To Leave?

Celebrations are over. Back to reality. Yeah, everybody makes New Year’s resolutions. One way or another, we pledge to be better persons — trimmer, more giving, less judgmental, more fit, better parent or spouse or friend, more relaxed, more empathetic, maybe knock a few items off the bucket list. For the more committed of us, […]

Learn More January 5, 2016

Fundraising Evolution and Revolution

Let’s jump right to the pressing topic of fundraising evolution, perhaps even revolution, on this first Monday of 2016. You’ll recall that on New Year’s day Tom and I left you with the promise that we’d be devoting serious attention in 2016 to the types of changes in mindset and methods we believe are essential […]

Learn More January 4, 2016

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 […]

Learn More December 31, 2015

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 […]

Learn More December 30, 2015

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 […]

Learn More December 29, 2015