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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

Resolved: No Fundraising Silos

As we noted last week, the superb comments offered by readers of The Agitator are a delight to me and Roger. And we’re gratified that these have grown strongly in number over the past year. So we thought it fitting to give the last word of the year to an Agitator Commentator. We picked this […]

Learn More December 30, 2011