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AGITATOR WEEKEND: Fundraising Vital Signs
The Agitator’s Week In Review. This week brought an end to the seemingly never-ending presidential campaigns marked by highs and lows, necessary and unnecessary divisions, indelible characters and high drama. But in the end, grassroots engagement, and fundraising ‘firsts’ made possible by the brilliant use of technology-backed-by-philosophy combined to yield a record-shattering turnout that contributed […]
Fundraising Vital Signs 1 – Responses
Last week, with our “Vital Signs – 1” survey, we asked readers of The Agitator to share their prognostications regarding the fundraising outlook for the balance of 2008.We received 126 completed surveys, and 55 individual fundraisers offered to join a panel to report further assessments as the year plays out. Three-of-four respondents work in a […]
AGITATOR WEEKEND: Fundraising Countdown
The Agitator’s Week In Review. It’s countdown time. 72 hours ’til Election Day. 1,464 hours ’til the account books close on December 31. And while the pollsters (or at least most of them) are predicting an Obama victory it’s not nearly as clear how fundraisers will fare in the final 61 days to year’s end. […]
Must-Read Report On Holiday Online Giving
Thanks to Convio and JupiterResearch, nonprofit fundraisers have new and valuable insight into the expected online giving of Americans in the upcoming holiday season.As we read the data, the news is good: Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!For this report prepared by Convio, Jupiter asked 175.6 million adult online users in the US about […]
AGITATOR WEEKEND: Fundraising for Nail Biters
The Agitator’s Week In Review. As news of economic woes continued again this week tension and quiet terror grew even more noticeable among some fundraisers. Tom and I have quite different views over just how worried we all should be. So, we talked it over and put up our first audio post on Monday along with […]
Fundraising In Tough Times For Acme Food Bank
Yesterday, Roger published an audio-recording of a conversation he and I had about the impact of today’s traumatic economic conditions on fundraising. Here it is if you missed.www.theagitator.net/wp-content/uploads/file/Agitator-Talk.mp3A key take-away from the conversation was … don’t stop asking! Followed by … words matter! Present your message and need in a context that is relevant to […]
AGITATOR WEEKEND: Fundraising With Chicken Little
The Agitator’s Week in Review. No question that the seemingly endless chain of bad financial and economic news has created a heightened sense of foreboding in our community that the fundraising sky is falling. Meanwhile, the last of the presidential debates took place on Wednesday as the campaigns headed into the homestretch to Novemember 4th […]
More On Public Perceptions And The Economy
Here is yet another poll on public perceptions of the economy and personal finances … this one from Discover Financial.We’ve reported two similar polls from USA Today and Pew Research in the past few days.The Discover findings point to a consistent trend that might be of interest to fundraisers … people seem to be much […]
AGITATOR WEEKEND: Strange New World Fundraising
The Agitator’s Week in Review. In Christopher Columbus’ day navigators wondered whether they’d fall off the edge of the earth or be swallowed alive by sea monsters. This week, in the words of Yogi Berra, it was déjà vu all over again. As we waited for the global financial rescue plans to take hold and […]
AGITATOR WEEKEND: Bailouts and Debates
The Agitator’s Week In Review. This was a week for politics, beginning with the Washington, D.C. soap opera over the on-again-off-again bailout of the U.S. financial system and ending with the on-again Presidential Debates in Oxford, Mississippi. Regardless of where you stand on the bailout you have to feel a sense of pride last […]