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Essentials Of Innovation

As the year begins, most Agitator readers have made some plans for new approaches, new tactics, to try in the coming year … otherwise more grandly known as ‘innovations’. Seriously, I hope ‘innovation’ means more to fundraisers than testing new envelope teasers and email subject lines. Innovation is serious stuff, and often impeded by poor […]

Learn More January 12, 2016

A Better Or Worse World?

As I worked on last week’s post Making the Most of a Charged Political Climate I couldn’t help but wonder if the world has really become as cold, cruel and dangerous as many of the presidential candidates are claiming. Or, to put it another way, is the world really going to hell in a hand […]

Learn More January 11, 2016

2016 Fundraising ‘To Do’ List

Agitator readers have had a week now to recover from various holiday diversions and to count the bounty from all those year-end appeals. It’s time to get on with the business of 2016. And if you’re an organised sort, you’ll begin with a ‘To Do’ list … not just for next Monday, but for the year. […]

Learn More January 8, 2016

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