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More Bees With Honey

Face-to -face fundraising is a tough business, full of rejection. Although your direct mail appeal gets rejected at an even higher rate (unopened, non-response) it’s less personal, less in your face, literally. Fundraisers need to be resilient. If you can’t handle rejection, you can’t handle the gig. As a relevant aside, DVCanvass (our F2F and […]

Learn More November 27, 2023

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

We’re grateful for the time you give The Agitator. We’re grateful for your thoughts and comments. We’re grateful for the work you do for Others. We’re grateful for You. Happy Thanksgiving! Roger and Kevin P.S. And if you’re […]

Learn More November 22, 2023

Final Giving Tuesday’23 Tip: Answer the Damn Phone

For our final Giving Tuesday tip of 2023 the headline above says it all. Answer the damn phone. In this giving season when many nonprofits receive as much as 1/3 of their total annual revenue, it’s particularly important to […]

Learn More November 20, 2023

More Similar Than Different?

Willingness to play the long game, risk taking, and pro-social attitudes determine, respectively, how much people are willing to save for the future instead of spending now, if they’re ready to take risks for potential gains, and how they act with others. These Big Three preferences have a big influence on how markets and institutions […]

Learn More November 17, 2023

No Ragrets?

There’s a funny scene in “We’re the Millers” where Scottie P., a skate rat and carnival worker, arrives to pick up Casey, one of the main characters. Scottie P. is carefree and mostly oblivious, highlighted by his “No Ragrets” tattoo. Jason Sudeikis, playing Casey’s father, asks about it, “What’s this one?” pointing to the chest […]

Learn More November 15, 2023

Giving Tuesday 2023 Tips: What to Do About Monthly Donors?

Continuing our Giving Tuesday tips and hacks (some earlier posts here on Subject Lines, here on Matching Gifts, and here on Donor Advised Funds) we thought it more than appropriate to deal with the question of what to do with Sustainers or Monthly Donors before, during and […]

Learn More November 13, 2023