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Waiting For Inspiration

The New York Times recently headlined … For Millenials, a Tide of Cynicism and a Partisan Gap. They were previewing a series of polls regarding Millenials political and social views by Harvard’s Institute of Politics. A finding that makes me want to throw my hands up in despair is that those age 18-29 split evenly […]

Learn More May 2, 2013

Who Should Set Fundraising Targets?

Faithful Agitator reader Reinier Spruit at Greenpeace International and 101fundraising blog has shared the results of his interesting survey on setting fundraising targets … We are going down … We have no target! His survey of 103 fundraisers reported that: 29% set their own targets; 53% proposed a target to their manager, who made the […]

Learn More May 1, 2013

Fairy Tale Fundraising

I’m looking forward to joining a small, bright band of nonprofit execs, consultants, editors and other assorted members of our fundraising tribe on May 9th in Philadelphia for Fundraising Success magazine’s first Engage Conference. The format of the conference is quite different from the usual DMA, AFP, DMFA gatherings. First of all, it’s deliberately small […]

Learn More April 30, 2013

Happy Birthday Willie!

Last week I was critical of an Oxfam video featuring crowdsourced video content. Actually, I love the idea of sourcing content (of all kinds, for that matter) from donors, volunteers and especially the beneficiaries of whatever it is you do. What I didn’t like was the execution. It told no story about the need it […]

Learn More April 29, 2013

What’s Your Innovation Quotient?

Here’s an article — Teaching The Old Dog Some New Tricks — that caught my attention simply because of its opening teaser line … “Business has only two functions: marketing and innovation.” Now, the author isn’t sure whether he’s quoting management guru Peter Drucker or novelist Milan Kundera, but no matter. Personally, I think it’s […]

Learn More April 26, 2013

When Words Fail

Confession: I’m a slut when it comes to words. I believe, too much so, that they matter more than any other symbol of human communication. Understandable, because I once made a living as a copywriter. But this doesn’t forgive my sins of omission in highlighting other forms of communications that make a real and important […]

Learn More April 25, 2013