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Cool Tool – Charity Badges

Network for Good is developing a cool fundraising tool for the volunteer fundraiser. Called “Charity Badges,” the idea is to give any individual an easy way to promote the charities of their choice on their personal blogs, AIM page, websites and, soon, web pages on social networking sites like MySpace. You can build a badge […]

Learn More December 17, 2006

Stocking Stuffers

Santa's helper Claudia Zorn, whose day job is at GetActive, has been bugging The Agitator to steer folks toward socially-responsible shopping this holiday season. So now that we're down to the desperate last week or so of shopping, we figure it's time for some online gift purchasing. Our favorite online gift catalogues come from Oxfam […]

Learn More December 16, 2006

Boomers To Give $6000 Each in 2006!

That's a BIG number from a survey just completed by Fidelity Charity Gift Fund. But then read the fine print and discover the sample was limited to those who indicated they planned to give at least $1000 during the year. Headline hyperbole aside, The Agitator knows that Boomers are indeed ready to rock the charity […]

Learn More December 15, 2006

Is Your Online Presence Keeping Pace?

Internet users are becoming more and more comfortable with the medium, taking advantage of high speed broadband access to try more of what the Web has to offer. Nonprofits need to keep pace with their online strategies and implementation, because higher expectations will be created by donor and activist exposure to sophisticated tools and sites […]

Learn More December 14, 2006

Dumb Luck?

Can you “make” luck, or must you be content with waiting for it to happen? And why does this matter to nonprofit marketers and managers? Let me start with the latter. Most of the biggest marketing breakthroughs are just that … breakthroughs. They happen because someone applies gut instinct against the grain. Not shooting from […]

Learn More December 13, 2006

Mythological Brands

Writing in his blog about “mythological brands” like Apple and James Bond, Seth Godin got me thinking about the existence – or not – of such brands in the nonprofit world. To set the stage, Godin advises: So, if I were trying to invent a mythic brand, I'd want to be sure that there was […]

Learn More December 12, 2006