Award Winning Blog - Agitator

If We Build It, Will They Come?

According to Vinay Bhagat at Convio, online giving has grown from $250,000 in 1999 to more than $5 billion in 2006. So what do we know? Target Analysis Group and DonorDigital have collaborated to produce an excellent study on online giving patterns. Importantly, this report looks at online giving in the context of ongoing direct […]

Learn More January 26, 2007

Advice For Bill Gates

The Gates Foundation has been getting slammed by bloggers (see a compilation here assembled by Tactical Philanthropy) and other pundits for its head-in-the-sand (ooops, does that indicate a bias?) posture on the matter of socially responsible investing of its portfolio. In case you missed Gates' position statement, it essentially says they're too busy saving the […]

Learn More January 25, 2007

Gulliver’s Travels, Shock and Awe, and Other Recent Phenomena

Lord help the Lilliputians. Judging from the excited phone calls along the grapevine, the blog traffic, the hits on the search engines and the comments of the 50 or so folks who make up the high priesthood of the online fundraising world, youd think that last weeks $60 million+ cash acquistion by Blackbaud of TheTarget […]

Learn More January 23, 2007

American Optimism Suits 2007 Fundraising

Pew Research Center recently published survey findings regarding Americans’ attitudes about their financial prospects for the coming year. If optimism equates with donor largesse, nonprofits should be in for a good 2007. Some key findings: About four-in-ten American adults say they are living comfortably, while another three-in-ten say they have enough money to meet expenses […]

Learn More January 22, 2007

Vidmeter

If you need to monitor pop culture for professional reasons (sure!), or if you're just killing time before your next meeting, check out Vidmeter, a service that ranks viewing of online videos across all the major players — YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, MySpace, Atom Films, Revver and others. The first of our readers to […]

Learn More January 21, 2007

Lust

Did we say “lust?” We meant HOUTLUST, a nifty blog originating in The Netherlands that offers a worldwide window to current nonprofit advertising and social marketing campaigns. You're likely to see as much or more material regarding non-US initiatives as you will campaigns underway in the US of A, but all the better to get […]

Learn More January 20, 2007