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Making The Most Of A Charged Political Climate

Recent news of the fundraising results of Senator Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign — $33 million in the last three months from a base of 2.2 million donors who give an average of $27 — got me thinking about the various problems and opportunities faced by vastly different types of organizations. I imagined some board member(s) somewhere in […]

Learn More January 7, 2016

December’s Online Fundraising Blizzard

Online fundraisers lose all restraint when it comes to the month of December, participating en masse in the year-end feeding frenzy. This extravaganza has become part of the ingrained biological clock of nonprofits and their fundraisers … like whales gathering off South Africa each season for krill. [Video here drives home the point!] No one […]

Learn More January 6, 2016

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 […]

Learn More January 1, 2016

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