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Weekend Edition: Fundraising Warning Bells

WEEK OF NOVEMBER 17th. On down days Grandma Craver attempted to brighten life with the reminder. “Cheer up, Roger. Things could be worse.” Well, this week they got worse, at least where the economy and fundraising is concerned. The warning bells of impending fundraising doom are sounding with more and more frequency and volume. Increasing […]

Learn More November 22, 2008

Fundraising Vital Signs – Response Update

We have now completed two cycles of our Fundraising Vital Signs surveys, in which we ask readers of The Agitator to share their prognostications regarding the fundraising outlook for the balance of 2008 (see Survey 1 results here). Our overall response profile remains the same: three-of-four respondents work in a nonprofit organization; the other respondents […]

Learn More November 21, 2008

The Video-Centric Nonprofit

Here from Dave Dutch of web consulting and software firm Vignette, via Mediapost, is the most gushing vision I’ve seen lately of the role of online video in a corporate setting. He refers to the "video-centric enterprise." But think about the applications for your "video-centric nonprofit" as I quote at length: "Video’s importance … […]

Learn More November 20, 2008

Motrin: A Lesson In Issue Campaigning

As told by Ad Age, here is a fascinating account of the brouhaha over a recent — now deceased — advertising campaign for Motrin, the painkiller. It’s left some executives at Johnson & Johnson’s McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit consuming a lot of their own medicine! The ads were an attempt by Motrin to connect and […]

Learn More November 19, 2008

You’re Not Alone!

Just when you need to send one critical email before you dash off, or are at the juiciest part of the conversation … Your internet service disappears, or your computer freezes (or worse, does that never-ending hourglass or spinning wheel thing), or your cellphone fails. According to this report from Pew Research, When technology Fails, […]

Learn More November 18, 2008

New Agitator Paper #2: The Giving Process

Free: Sign up here for first Agitator Editors Telebriefing, Fundraising in Troubled Times, this Friday, November 21, 2 pm eastern. Details in postscript. Today The Agitator releases the second in its new series of DonorTrends White Papers. These papers are available to subscribers to The Agitator’s new Premium service. The second paper is […]

Learn More November 17, 2008