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Images For Every Nonprofit

From Inspiring Generosity, it’s all about images … “Some nonprofits find it challenging at times to represent the work they do in photos, rather than text. But photos are one of the most shared content on social media, so it’s become important for causes to adapt and show more images in order to bring about […]

Learn More July 3, 2012

Youth And Online Politics

Here’s a good Independence Day read for our American Agitators in particular, but for all who want more insight into how online tools are re-shaping political participation amongst youth (15-25 year-olds) … Participatory Politics: New Media and Youth Political Action, funded by an arm of the MacArthur Foundation. ‘Participatory politics’ is defined as: “interactive, peer-based […]

Learn More July 2, 2012

Who’s A Young Donor?

Jeff Brooks at Future Fundraising Now just wrote a post, Don’t get too excited by survey on Millennial giving. He’s warning against hyperventilating over a recent report, Millenial Impact Report, based on the survey research that Jeff loves to hate (as opposed to hard data), that enthuses over giving by the age 20-35 set. He […]

Learn More June 29, 2012

Fundraising And ‘HENRYs’

‘HENRY’ stands for Higher Earning, Not Rich Yet. These are folks earning $100-$250k, although this includes a lot of two-income households. I used to be one; however, now I’m neither higher earning nor rich … nor likely to be. Disqualified. But I digress. This article, The Return of the Newly Affluent, describes some of the […]

Learn More June 28, 2012

Time for the Non-Profit Sector to Get More Commercial (& Steal…)

To misquote Oscar Wilde, “the meek borrow, genius steal…”, and steal (or borrow if you insist) is exactly what the non-profit sector must do in rewriting its best practices to address the intractable problem of lousy and declining retention rates. Let us first stipulate, this post is not about bashing the sector. To the contrary, […]

Learn More June 27, 2012

Online ‘Donation-Killers’

We’re developing a bit of theme this week, sticking with online fundraising. Thanks to Joanne Fritz at About.com for bringing attention to a report on nonprofit websites by Jakob Nielsen, the guru of website usability. Done over a year ago, I confess to completely missing this one. Joanne summarizes his report, which costs $188 (but […]

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