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Rekindle Your Donor’s Thrill of Giving

Mark Phillips at UK’s Bluefrog has nailed it with this post, called Why giving to charity can be like buying a Polaris submarine. Boy can I identify with drooling over those comic book offers when I was a kid. I never tried to order the seven foot Polaris sub big enough for 2 kids (after […]

Learn More January 11, 2012

Word of Mouth – Who Does It and Why?

Word of mouth is, especially these days, considered the best form of advertising and promotion. It is inexpensive (not free) and often reported by peers as the most trusted, most acted on form of referral. Social media of course has elevated word of mouth or peer influence to rock star status. It is often useful, […]

Learn More January 10, 2012

Primer On Online Fundraising

Here’s an solid primer on online fundraising from Network for Good … although there’s a fair dose of advice here that applies to all fundraising. Smaller nonprofits and newcomers to the field will find this e-book especially helpful. They expand upon ten resolutions for 2012: I will put fundraising first. I will stop treating my […]

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Help Us Help You – 2012

Following a first principle of effective communications, as we’re planning The Agitator’s editorial content for this year, it would be helpful to know a bit more about our readers … In what part of ‘the biz’ do you work? How long? How big is your organization? What are your interests? What are you looking for […]

Learn More January 9, 2012

Tackle Systemic Failures … Or Meet Urgent Needs?

Tina Cincotti just commented on an Agitator post, No More Nonprofits, from back in November. Her points are well made on an important subject — should more energy and resources in the nonprofit/charity sector be devoted to fighting and fixing systemic failures in our political, economic, and social systems … as opposed to providing urgent […]

Learn More January 6, 2012

2012 Fundraising Predictions

We’re seeing lots of predictions for 2012 floating through the blogosphere … I enjoyed these from the Boomer Project, my favorite source of Boomer insight. However, from a specifically fundraising perspective, take a look at these predictions from Vinay Bhagat, Convio’s driving force. His observations are based on more empirical data than most fundraisers see, […]

Learn More January 5, 2012