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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

New Digital Fundraising Benchmarks

The latest M+R Benchmarks Study was released yesterday, providing a valuable look at trends in the digital fundraising arena. The study is based on an impressive range of 105 participating organizations in eight sectors — mostly large nonprofits like Oxfam America, Planned Parenthood Federation and Humane Society of the US, but including smaller regional/local groups like […]

Learn More April 21, 2016

The Danger Of Widget Mentality In Fundraising

I wonder how many donors give in spite of the fundraising machine, not because of it? Here at The Agitator and over at our sister company DonorVoice we focus on that question a lot. In fact that’s what led to the research and eventually our recent Agitator/DonorVoice/SOFII Webinar on How to Reduce F2F Attrition in the First 90 […]

Learn More April 20, 2016

Take The $$? Or Take A Stand?

In the US, HBO just premiered Confirmation, a docudrama recounting the debacle 25 years ago, when 11 Senate Democrats (out of 57) voted to confirm Judge Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court. Thomas won confirmation despite accusations of sexual harassment laid against him by professor Anita Hill during Senate hearings. Hill had worked as an adviser […]

Learn More April 19, 2016

Annual Reports: Walking The Talk

It’s hard to come up with an example of a greater waste of nonprofit funds and time than the annual report. Well, most annual reports at least. I’ve seen dozens of CEOs, communications and development directors waste countless hours fuming, fussing and meeting over these egocentric tomes in hopes of impressing donors. And, I’ve learned […]

Learn More April 18, 2016