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Lazy Or Careless Fundraising?

Here’s an email The Agitator received yesterday … Good morning Agitator! I had two very disappointing donor experiences occur yesterday, and I just wanted to share. Mainly because BOTH could have been avoided if somebody had bothered to take a look at their own data correctly. The first experience was recounted to me by a […]

Learn More February 4, 2011

Giving Attitudes Surveyed By Harris Interactive

Don’t know how I missed this, but back in November Harris Interactive released this very interesting survey on the charitable giving habits and plans of Americans. Their report includes some interesting trend data comparing 2007 and 2010 responses. Most respondents (48%) categorize themselves as follows: “I make some kind of small contribution of time and/or […]

Learn More February 3, 2011

Check Out MTV Act

MTV has launched MTV Act as a vehicle to encourage younger music fans to engage in social causes. Here’s what MTV says: “What Act is really about is you. Seriously. Every campaign we’ve launched and change we’ve made is because you watched, listened, chatted, blogged, tweeted, posted and acted on things that matter. So this […]

Learn More February 2, 2011

Speaking Up For Mail

We recently noted the latest Pew Internet Research findings on US online habits across various generations. Here’s the main point: “In what they term the ‘biggest online trend’ Pew reports that certain key internet activities — including donating — are becoming more uniformly popular across all age groups.” Bonnie Catena of Amnesty USA offered this […]

Learn More February 1, 2011

Haiti Fundraising Aftermath

A year ago, Bryan Miller at Giving in a digital world made an online contribution to each of ten UK charities raising money to assist earthquake relief efforts in Haiti. Then he sat back and collected the avalanche of mail and online follow-up appeals he received. Let’s say the results were not uniformly impressive! Here […]

Learn More January 31, 2011

Auf Wiedersehen … And Thanks

I’ve always thought of him as a kid. After all, he is several years younger than I. For years and years Mal Warwick has always been there. At conferences. Giving seminars. On planes. On panels. No one I’ve ever met gave back more to our profession than Mal. So today, when I opened my email […]

Learn More January 28, 2011