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Senior Fundraiser On The Planet

We’ve received a great response to our quest — Can You Beat 27 Years? — to find the Senior Fundraiser on the Planet — a fundraiser who has served (lasted?) the longest time at the same charity or nonprofit. Many of the responses — and individual ‘candidates’ — surfaced as Comments to the original post, […]

Learn More July 14, 2011

Fundraising & The Value Of Email Addresses

We’re back on the Retention Trail today. Rick Christ, a VP at Amergent, has just issued Donor Stewardship: Making Virtual Friends for Life, a white paper that you should download and read today. When it comes to retention, Rick doesn’t mince words, always writes well, and succinctly summarizes the Amergent analysis of millions of gifts. […]

Learn More July 13, 2011

Fundraising & Water Moccasins

I received an email yesterday from Jeff Brooks, the mega-smart, mega-iconoclastic editor of the FutureFundraisingNow blog. He wanted to know what grievances Tom and I had against an Australian fundraiser named Sean Triner ‘cause someone using the email address the_agitator@gmail.com was saying some very disparaging things about Sean on Jeff’s blog. Frankly, neither Tom nor […]

Learn More July 12, 2011

Can You Beat 27 Years?

Over the weekend I learned that an old friend would be retiring from his job after 27 years at the same company. It wasn’t his first job, but certainly his various senior roles within this company defined his career. I believe he is out-served only by the founder, who now luxuriates in the title of […]

Learn More July 11, 2011

Willful Ignorance

I’ve already gone to the Seth Godin file earlier this week, but his latest post has such an important message that I decided to give him another crack. Here’s his post in its entirety. The Arrogance of Willful Ignorance People have come before us, failed, learned, written it down. Scientists have figured out what works, […]

Learn More July 8, 2011

Roger On Integrated Fundraising

Next Tuesday the 12th Roger is participating in Blackbaud’s Summer School Series. I told him he should have paid more attention in class! Seriously, here’s the blurb from Blackbaud: Integrated Fundraising: Leveraging the Big Picture for Big Impact July 12, 1:00pm-2:00pm eastern, hosted by Roger Craver and Ryan Glushkoff What if every effort you contribute […]

Learn More July 7, 2011