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Big Mac® Fundraising

Announcing the latest international fundraising metric: Two all-beef patties + special sauce + lettuce + cheese + pickles + onions + a sesame seed bun = 1 Big Mac® I kid you not. The Big Mac® Philanthropy Index will officially launch On April 8th. Compiled by the London-based international consultancy The Management Centre (=mc) and […]

Learn More March 25, 2013

What Is Your Nonprofit’s YouTube Strategy?

Enough already of Facebook and Twitter strategy! Better be thinking about YouTube, which just hit the mark of 1 billion monthly users! That’s almost 1 in 2 people on the internet. Its monthly audience makes YouTube the third largest ‘country’ in the world. YouTube is now second only to parent Google itself in terms of […]

Learn More March 22, 2013

Don’t Blame The Boomers … It’s Our Fault

Lately, when I’ve written about fundraising and Boomers, Kn Moy, the ‘innovation strategy’ guy at Masterworks has responded with excellent commentary and data (as he did here back in January). Kn thinks heaps about ‘generational fundraising’ for his agency. Here are his excellent comments on my post of yesterday, Boomers: Boom Or Bust?, expressing my […]

Learn More March 21, 2013

Boomers: Boom Or Bust?

I’ve been thinking about this recent post — Boomer life transitions and fundraising — by Jeff Brooks of Future Fundraising Now. I’ve tended to be a believer in the manna from heaven promised by the fundraising ‘coming of age’ of America’s 76 million boomers. Huge wealth transfer coming their way. More discretionary income to give […]

Learn More March 20, 2013

Today’s The Day: Focus On Retention

This morning at 11:00 a.m. Eastern we’ll host the Agitator/DonorVoice Webinar on Retention. We now have 821 folks registered, a healthy sign of the concern over retention among Agitator readers. There’s still some room if you’d like to join us. But even if you can’t attend today you may want to register here so we […]

Learn More March 19, 2013

Show This To Your Board, Or Go Sit On Your Thumb

Last week, Roger did a good job of rattling the cage with his post, What Is The Watchdog Watching? He basically said: P*** on the obsession with fundraising overhead. But that was just a warm-up. Watch this TED presentation — The way we think about charity is dead wrong — by Dan Pallotta, an extraordinary […]

Learn More March 18, 2013