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Fundraising In Tough Times For Acme Food Bank

Yesterday, Roger published an audio-recording of a conversation he and I had about the impact of today’s traumatic economic conditions on fundraising. Here it is if you missed.www.theagitator.net/wp-content/uploads/file/Agitator-Talk.mp3A key take-away from the conversation was … don’t stop asking! Followed by … words matter! Present your message and need in a context that is relevant to […]

Learn More October 21, 2008

Roger And Tom Discuss Chicken Little

Tom and I talk often about the fundraising issues we’re covering on The Agitator and our different “takes” on what’s happening in the donor world. Over the weekend we had a conversation about the economic situation and its impact on fundraising strategy in the coming months. We audio-taped it with the thought you might find […]

Learn More October 20, 2008

AGITATOR WEEKEND: Fundraising With Chicken Little

The Agitator’s Week in Review. No question that the seemingly endless chain of bad financial and economic news has created a heightened sense of foreboding in our community that the fundraising sky is falling. Meanwhile, the last of the presidential debates took place on Wednesday as the campaigns headed into the homestretch to Novemember 4th […]

Learn More October 18, 2008

More On Public Perceptions And The Economy

Here is yet another poll on public perceptions of the economy and personal finances … this one from Discover Financial.We’ve reported two similar polls from USA Today and Pew Research in the past few days.The Discover findings point to a consistent trend that might be of interest to fundraisers … people seem to be much […]

Learn More October 17, 2008

Americans Surprisingly Confident

According to the latest survey conducted by Pew Research Center (just last weekend, Oct 9-12), Americans are amazingly confident about the economy and their own financial condition. I say “amazingly” because I myself am hysterical!But Pew does very thorough attitude research and this survey is no exception. Here is their core observation:“… there is little […]

Learn More October 16, 2008

In Fundraising, The Words Count

In his Weekend Review of October 11, Roger snuck in a reference to a rant by fundraising copy craftsman, Bob Levy. I’ve been worrying that our weekday readers might have overlooked this nugget, so I’m touting it again. A lot of mail is scheduled to stream into mailboxes in the next ten weeks or so, […]

Learn More October 15, 2008