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No More Nonprofits!

Please read this opinion piece — Calling All Boomers: Don’t Start More Nonprofits — by Mark Rosenman, recently published in the Chronicle of Philanthropy. If you’re traveling over the Thanksgiving weekend, take it with you and ponder it. Mark is responding to a study claiming that 12 million Boomers want to start their own nonprofit […]

Learn More November 21, 2011

What Do You Do Within 30 Minutes Of Waking Up?

As much as I’d prefer to write about fundraising, I know The Agitator has a lot of social net addicts out there. Here’s the latest research from Pew Internet Research, looking at Why Americans use social media. So, why are you addicted? It all boils down to friends and family. Two-thirds of Pew’s respondents say […]

Learn More November 18, 2011

Two Looks At Nonprofit Social Media

Here are two good items on nonprofit use of social media. For a macroview, The Nonprofit Quarterly reported recently on a Craigconnect study of fifty top US charities using social media, grouped in these focus categories — Animal, Children, Cultural, Disaster Relief, Environment, Health, Veterans & Military, and Women. All the charities compared are pretty […]

Learn More November 17, 2011

Would Your Donors Miss You?

James Read at the Grizzard agency wrote a recent post, What Would Steve Jobs Do At Your Nonprofit? In it, he asks the question: “…are there many nonprofit organizations out there that would be similarly mourned if they disappeared overnight?” And he answers himself: “Unfortunately, many nonprofits wouldn’t be missed. They’re competent, good, and provide […]

Learn More November 16, 2011

Why a Satisfied Donor is Not a Retained Donor

Satisfaction – as a concept or framework for loyalty has been around a long time. It is, like most good ideas in the social sciences, based on a theory; exchange theory to be exact. In a nutshell this theory suggests people make decisions in a rationale manner, weighing (subconsciously in many cases) the benefit and […]

Learn More November 15, 2011

Cool Data For Alumni Fundraising

The Agitator has heaps of .edu readers whom we don’t frequently address specifically. So we’re happy to jump on the opportunity to alert you to the CoolData blog, which specializes in advice on making the most of your alumni data for fundraising purposes. Here’s an example of their analysis of alumni website behavior. Happy to […]

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