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This Headline Terrified Me

Charity Wins Donors With Promise Never to Ask For Another Gift When I saw this headline on Holly Hall’s Chronicle of Philanthropy article on Monday I groaned out loud, and added an expletive. What a recipe for fundraising disaster, I thought. No way direct response fundraising works without repeat gifts (i.e., repeat solicitations). Then I […]

Learn More May 25, 2011

‘Cause Fatigue’ On Social Media?

Interesting new research on causes and social media from Georgetown University’s Center for Social Impact Communication, reported in Philanthropy Today. While four in ten Americans get involved with groups working on social and political causes, 17% of women and 12% of men do so through social media sites, by joining a cause group, posting a […]

Learn More May 24, 2011

Do Your Donors Call You?

What percentage of your donors or members call your nonprofit … for any reason? What’s the overall volume? And what about ‘over-the-transom’ calls from people not yet connected to you? Naturally, the numbers vary hugely from nonprofit to nonprofit, and across types of nonprofits. Do you treat these calls as a cost (i.e., a nuisance) […]

Learn More May 23, 2011

Facebook Versus Real Money

Yesterday we noted Facebook’s new Resource section for nonprofits, and quoted FB’s own figure of $5 million being raised through its Causes application. Laudable. But one Agitator reader noted with a hint of sarcasm … $5 million in five years from some 50 million Facebook users wasn’t exactly a fundraising avalanche! Then another commentator noted […]

Learn More May 20, 2011

Facebook Help For Nonprofits

Facebook has added a new Resource section to help nonprofits optimize the engagement impact of their Facebook presence. Says Facebook: “This Page is a resource for non-profits and other organizations for social good. We built it to help you harness the power of Facebook and bring positive change to the world. Facebook empowers non-profits by […]

Learn More May 19, 2011

She’s Leaving!

Monday’s Agitator post on institutional memory generated a bit of a stir between Comments and emails we received. All bemoaned the problem … but I’d like to get more concrete. I can’t resist asking readers for two stories, which we’d love to publish (anonymously if you wish) … Who has the ‘worst nightmare’ story of […]

Learn More May 18, 2011