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Why Should I Care?

It’s taken twenty-one days into the new year for it to leak out — I’ve been restraining myself — but here’s my first curmudgeon post of the year. Last week, in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, it was reported by Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and the Giving USA Foundation that Giving Tuesday’s tally […]

Learn More January 21, 2015

The Tale Of The Bigger Bottom Line

Harvard Business Review calls it a strategic tool with “irresistible power”. To Entrepreneur magazine it’s the “major business lesson of 2014”. Companies and nonprofits like American Express, Random House and PBS are paying up to $3,500 for a workshops on it. What is this exciting phenomenon that’s become a new buzzword? It’s the ancient art […]

Learn More January 20, 2015

Do You Have The Winning Nonprofit Video?

For several years The Agitator has been happy to applaud the annual winners of the DoGooder Video Awards, a project of Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), See3 and YouTube. This year’s contest is underway, with submissions due here by February 8. The categories (for individual video-makers and nonprofits) are: Best Nonprofit Video — best overall video […]

Learn More January 19, 2015

Being Unforgettable

I’m teasing out the first month of the year for all it’s worth in terms of recommendations for my 2015 ‘To do’ list. Frankly, I’m doing a lot of stealing from the advice I see others giving, massaged against what I deem most important to fundraising success. Here’s an example: Recommendation #4 on my 2015 […]

Learn More January 16, 2015

Tale Of Two Donations

Decades ago (I won’t admit exactly how far back that was!) I made my first donation. I was a grad student studying political theory at the time (arguably, an intellectual) and I received a direct mail appeal focused on how the seniority system in the US Congress was causing all sorts of bad policy … […]

Learn More January 15, 2015

My 2015 ‘To do’ List — Recommendation #3

I was browsing through my email, as one is wont to do, and noticed a praising mention of an unfamiliar nonprofit called Possible Health. And, as donors are wont to do, I went to their website to check them out. [You’ll recall that #2 on my recommended 2015 ‘To do’ list yesterday was getting your […]

Learn More January 14, 2015