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Innovation Series #5: Ideas Applied

We’ll end this innovation series with some examples of innovation applied. Here’s Tom’s Top 5 Innovative Fundraising Ideas from two years ago. We invite Agitator readers to update the list with your own entries in our Comments section. Thank you. The Editors By Tom Belford | September 30, 2013 Today I’m shamelessly exploiting the hard work […]

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Innovation Series #4: Failure to Innovate

What’s stopping you from innovation. Nothing we can think of except the usual sloth, fear and idiotic board or CEO. Perhaps you can enlighten us. What reasons do you give for failure to innovate? Here’s Tom’s take in his 2012 post Nonprofit Failure is Too Rare. The Editors By Tom Belford | December 6, […]

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Innovation Series #3: Exalting the Trivial

A significant barrier to true innovation stems from most nonprofits’ fixation on minutiae that simply doesn’t matter. As part of his 2012 series on Flat Earth Fundraising Roger alerted us to the dangers of Wasting Time by Exalting the Trivial . –The Editors By Roger Craver | July 25, 2012 Within hours of our call for […]

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Innovation Series #2: What Causes Innovation

In this 2nd of our series on “Innovation” drawing from the Agitator vault here’s a post How Does Innovation Occur we wrote eight years ago. Still seems current and if you didn’t read the interview the first time around here’s your second chance. The Editors Tom and Roger | July 2, 2007 Here’s an […]

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Innovation Series #1- Are You Up for It?

At the end of the day all marketing efforts live or die by execution and innovation. Fundraising is no exception. A number of readers, most recently Mike Browne have requested we revisit the issue of innovation. So, starting with this post–What’s Your Innovation Quotient— here’s what The Agitator has had to say. We’ll begin with […]

Learn More August 3, 2015

It’s Not Your Grandma’s Homepage

The newspaper industry is struggling for its life. Of course, that’s not news, but what they’re doing by way searching for life rafts is indeed important and worthy of attention. Not only is their financial survival important, but also a significant part of our civil society fabric is at stake in their future. If they […]

Learn More July 31, 2015