Award Winning Blog - Agitator

Good Update On Mobile Giving

Mark Phillips at Bluefrog has done us a service with this update on mobile giving, with a UK slant. He links to a presentation from JustGiving.com indicating that 20% of UK charities are using mobile fundraising in some fashion. JustGiving itself receives almost 24,000 visits a day from mobile devices, up 82% in 2011 alone […]

Learn More July 18, 2011

Fundraising Versus Dues

A hellacious battle is playing out on the internet this week over Netflix’s move to increase subscription rates by 60%. Angry customers are accusing the cheapest movie deal on the Web of selling out … transforming itself into a “greedy corporation” … etc. etc. More than 600,000 complaints so far. Netflix of course has […]

Learn More July 15, 2011

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