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Top Celebrity Resuscitates Cause

By far the biggest buzz at this week’s Association of Fundraising Professionals conference concerns the landing of Ted Danson as the spokesperson for the Flehner-Lathrop Syndrome Foundation. Says FLS Foundation director Paula Brooks: "Before this, the closest thing we had to a celebrity afflicted with FLS was a cousin of Al Jarreau’s. Obviously, this is […]

Learn More April 1, 2008

AFP and the Most Popular Girls in High School

The annual migration in our trade is underway. The Association of Fundraising Professionals opened its annual conference yesterday in San Diego. Consultants wooing clients, printers, envelope salespeople, new media application service providers … all there wooing everyone in sight, along with 1/3 of the attendees looking for new jobs and wearing their best smiles. Unfortunately, I can’t be […]

Learn More March 31, 2008

Is This “Just A Phase”?

Yesterday’s NY Times included an important article on the news habits of young Americans. Here’s the bottomline for us aging Boomers, and any communicator in a nonprofit … Voices of authority — in the sense of informed, seasoned media intermediaries who help us discovery what of importance is going on in the world … and […]

Learn More March 28, 2008

Is Human Rights Your Issue?

Then this is the place to be … Global Philanthropy Forum, April 9-11, Redwood City, CA A match-up of human rights activists from around the world with "elders" of philanthropy and cause advocacy. One of the elders … keynoter Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Roger & Tom

Learn More March 27, 2008

Online Campaigning … More Than Money?

The Wall Street Journal recently chronicled the ascendancy of small gift fundraising in the campaigns of Obama and Clinton. Everybody knows about the Obama online $$ phenom: about 90% of the $55 million he raised in February came from donors giving $100 or less … the vast preponderance online. Bur consider Clinton as well: in […]

Learn More March 26, 2008

Understanding Your Website Stats

If you job requires actually understanding the effectiveness of your nonprofit’s website, then here is a blog and a book on web analytics for you! Both are authored by Avinash Kaushik. He’s the guy Google sends out to tell their REALLY BIG customers (not you and me) how their websites are performing. Knows his stuff. […]

Learn More March 25, 2008