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Promising The Boss

Now that this year’s just about over, and you’re thinking about the bottom line promises you’ll have to make to keep ‘The Boss’ happy for 2015, here’s a Belford gem from The Agitator archives. It’s titled, You Promised More Cash. I know you’ve been there … and I can feel your pain. Roger

Learn More December 29, 2014

Fall On Your Knees

For our eighth Christmas, and into our ninth year, we invite you to share our favorite Agitator tradition … enjoy this unforgettable rendition of O Holy Night. As we’ve noted before, this performance makes Tom weep, as it takes him back to Midnight Mass and his Catholic grammar school choir days. We guarantee this experience […]

Learn More December 24, 2014

Enough With The Schadenfreude

To some, Charity:Water — both in terms of fundraising success and on-the-ground accomplishment — has been an inspiration; to others, a con job. To some, a success to envy; others to emulate; but to others a ‘success’ to privately hope crashes and burns. The same mixed reaction could be found with the Ice Bucket Challenge. […]

Learn More December 23, 2014

It Took Roger 40 Years!

Forty years for him … a few hours for you. It took Roger forty years, but he finally completed his first book last August, Retention Fundraising: The New Art and Science of Keeping Your Donors for Life. Have you read it yet? What better time than over this holiday season? Because you know you should […]

Learn More December 22, 2014

Training Video: Face-To-Face Fundraising

For many fundraisers, I suspect this is the last day of work as many sneak out for a long Christmas holiday. Although, for the hard core, the busiest time for face-to-face fundraising might well occur over the next five days. I’m talking really hard core fundraising … intercepting hapless citizens — who are wandering down […]

Learn More December 19, 2014

9 Levels Of Work Hell

OK, you’re almost there! Many of you will fly out the door tomorrow and not be seen again until 2015. Hopefully your year-end money will keep streaming in, in your absence, as though on auto-pilot. Happy landings! But if you’re planning even a few moments for reflection of what went wrong in 2014 — and […]

Learn More December 18, 2014