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Simone Joyaux Is Dead

Simone Joyaux, a beloved shit-disturber and hell-raiser, who battled tirelessly to improve our sector by applying deep devotion, abundant energy, and development skills highly honed by outrage against injustice and inequality, is dead. The 44-year veteran of board development, strategic planning and organizational management, died Sunday, May 2nd in Providence, Rhode Island of a […]

Learn More May 3, 2021

Give Your Supporters a Break

Breaks are necessary for our sanity and productivity. Not exactly a breakthrough statement. Yet, we rarely follow that advice. How many back-to-back calls did you have this week? Can you remember how you felt after the last one? In a recent study, Microsoft examined the effects of back-to-back video calls on stress, and engagement. They […]

Learn More April 30, 2021

Thank You Apple

Great news for privacy lovers. More specifically, great news for Apple iPhone and iPad users who received a new privacy feature on Monday called App Tracking Transparency (ATT). This new feature is a significant step for user privacy because it gives Apple users more control over their mobile phone app data and how it’s used […]

Learn More April 28, 2021

Our bias for addition over subtraction

Addition by subtraction. Less is more. Remove barriers. Mark Twain apologizing for the length of his letter, noting it would have been shorter if he had more time. All these expressions can’t hold a candle to our apparent bias towards addition over subtraction. “Engagement” is seen as both positive and additive to whatever you’re already […]

Learn More April 26, 2021

The Failed World of One Size Fits All “Nudges”

I don’t know how many times I’ve typed, spoken, yelled or cried in my beer (ok, whiskey..) that we have to get fundraising out of it’s one size fits all world. Actually, I do know because I’ve just counted and its 3,247 times. I’m clearly doing it wrong. But, hope springs eternal and so, here […]

Learn More April 23, 2021

An Earth Day Gift for Fundraisers

Tomorrow –April 22nd—we’ll celebrate the 51st anniversary of the first Earth Day. Here at The Agitator we’re also aware that somewhere north of Toronto in Canada’s Happy Valley Forest David Love will be marking his 51st year of raising money and raising hell on behalf of nature. I first met David 25 years ago while […]

Learn More April 21, 2021