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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 […]

Learn More January 10, 2012

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

2012 Year End Giving Begins Now!

That’s the headline that attracted me to blogger Mark Marshall’s latest post. I expected Mark to be making a point about building relationships. Your year-end giving isn’t simply a response to some clever tactics dreamed up in October and executed from mid-November on. Those tactics are simply tapping into a (hopefully deep) reservoir of donor […]

Learn More January 4, 2012

Why NOT To Use Social Media

We all tend to try new things at the outset of a new year (or planning period). And for many nonprofits, something ‘new’ might be social media. But whether you’re new or a relative ‘old-timer’ with respect to social media, here from The Nonprofit Quarterly is an intelligent article that will help you think through […]

Learn More January 3, 2012