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Top 100 Best NGOs

On Friday, while Tom was busily angering and agitating our readers by singling out non-generic names of subscribers, I received a note from our friends at Daryl Upsall Consulting International in Madrid alerting us to a recently published list of “The Top 100 Best NGOs” in the world. The list, published by The Global Journal […]

Learn More March 26, 2012

Making The Job Harder

If you visit The Agitator website, you’ll notice that we regularly update the crawl listing organizations whose staff subscribe to our email feed. Sometimes I’m a bit incredulous about the names of some of these organizations, thinking … How would anyone know what they do? How would their fundraisers over come that? But I’ve bit […]

Learn More March 23, 2012

How to Map the Donor Experience

The word “mapping” has received a lot of buzz lately. We’re unclear how much of this is real versus PowerPoint fodder and welcome any feedback on this open question. Our latest innovation, TouchPoint Mapping, is, as you can see, an actual map using an online platform built exclusively for this purpose and with the non-profit […]

Learn More March 22, 2012

Pew Hispanic Center

If your nonprofit sees Hispanics in its future (or present) — whether for fundraising, communications or program delivery — you should take a look at the demographic profiling, survey data and other resources located at the Pew Hispanic Center. You can also sign up for email updates or an RSS feed. Excellent resource. Tom

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Top 10 Non-Profit Innovation Ideas

Most folks hear innovation and probably think technology or systems. This is decidedly not a list with that definition in mind. Innovation is, in our view, about new thinking and new ideas. The sector must break out of its inductive and deductive mindset. A mindset that is stuck analyzing the past to produce the future, […]

Learn More March 21, 2012

Live Video Streaming For Nonprofits

Two announcements that go together. According to comScore, about 179 million web users watched nearly 38 billion online videos in February, a level that’s holding relatively steady. That’s an average of 21.8 hours per viewer! A medium you must master. And here’s an opportunity … YouTube has started a new feature that will allow all […]

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