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Is Your Nonprofit Fashionable?

To succeed as a nonprofit today, either in fundraising or advocacy terms, Seth Godin says you need to be "fashionable." What he means by that, as explained in this audio presentation well worth a listen, is that your organization needs to be worth talking about, at least to some critical mass of true believers. Your […]

Learn More September 19, 2008

Mobile Medical Care

Usually we write about communications technology in the context of nonprofit fundraising or issue advocacy. But we saw this impressive announcement from the UN Foundation and just had to pass it along. The UN Foundation and the Vodaphone Foundation have partnered to develop and introduce software that enables health workers in sub-Saharan Africa to collect […]

Learn More September 18, 2008

7 Fundraising Tips for Surviving 2008

The phone’s been ringing day and night as clients and colleagues attempt to figure out what do in a world that’s falling apart. You already know the litany of economic and financial disasters, so no need for background. The bottom-line question is: What’s the best course of action in this final, and generally most important […]

Learn More September 17, 2008

The Best E-Appeal I’ve Seen This Year

On Friday, Agitator reader Charlie Orasin, Senior VP for Marketing and Constituency Development at Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund sent us what has to be the best e-appeal I’ve seen this year. Designed to raise money to put a shocking video of what Defenders calls “Sarah Palin’s Wolf-killing Record” on TV, this exemplary appeal is […]

Learn More September 16, 2008

Alicia Keyes Video – Slick Or Stirring?

I’d really like your feedback on this one. As you know, I’m a big fan of using online video to help deliver calls to action, including fundraising appeals. Most of what I’ve seen has a homespun or cinema verite’ look to it. But here’s something quite different … a very high quality film, apparently now […]

Learn More September 15, 2008

AGITATOR WEEKEND: Ambient Awareness and Much, Much More

The Agitator’s Week In Review. This week the U.S. marked the 7th anniversary of 9/11 … in a huge tunnel under Geneva the biggest science project –10,000 scientists and $10 billion – got underway in an attempt to understand the secrets of the universe by recreating the moments just after the Big Bang … the […]

Learn More September 13, 2008