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Secret Riches and Why You’re Missin’ Em

David Love, Executive Director of The Conservation Foundation of Greater Toronto, who also happens to be an old friend, great fundraiser, wonderful cause hell-raiser, and reader of The Agitator wrote the other day noting, “I remain obsessed with social justice and green groups getting legacies. Ripping them out of the hands of universities and hospitals. […]

Learn More November 28, 2006

Tell All …and Send Your Secret Bedroom Photos

Here at The Agitator find ourselves immersed in a real and very heated debate. Tom says that, in the interest of “transparency” and “accountability” anyone's contributions should be public and readily available online. Roger says, “it's no one's damn business and this sort of mindset is a real and present danger to civil liberties.” Of […]

Learn More November 27, 2006

Give Thanks For Nonprofits At Thanksgiving

A recent report on MSNBC notes that America’s 1.4 million nonprofits (as registered with the IRS in 2004) account for 5.2% of the nation’s economic output and 8.3% of its wages and salaries. That’s a significant contribution indeed to the nation’s economic well-being, but it pales in importance to the enormous good work charities, cause […]

Learn More November 23, 2006

Youth & Politics – Treasury of Data

Agitator confesses to being asleep at the switch back in October when The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE, funded by Pew and Carnegie) released its massive study on the civic and political engagement of youth (ages 15-25). CIRCLE's 2006 National Civic and Political Health Survey is a massive treasury […]

Learn More November 22, 2006

Simple But Ignored

From Deb Levin at Refinery comes some very simple, straightforward but largely ignored advice on website user expectations and how to meet them. Just one teaser here: How many of you have a nonprofit website that includes — anywhere on it — a genuine donor or member testimonial? Anybody? Anywhere? Point us to yours and […]

Learn More November 21, 2006

Who’s Watching Online Videos?

A couple of days ago we reported on some intriguing testing of online videos by Marketing Experiments. Their test videos, reaching over 700,000 views over three months, re-confirmed the viral power of entertaining videos on sites like YouTube and Google Video. But who's actually watching these videos? And is it an audience that's relevant to […]

Learn More November 20, 2006