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Follow The Dollars

Monday, April 12th, 2010

The Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) opened its 47th annual conference in Baltimore MD last night with an agenda chock full of educational programs, and an exhibition hall packed with helpful tools and techniques—all aimed at aiding the process of "getting”. Of ...  Read more

Secret Millionaire In Your File

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Over the weekend Tom sent me a link to an ABC News piece entitled “Secret Donor”. Diane Sawyer sets forth an absolutely charming and moving story  about a Lake Forest College alumna named Grace Groner who died in January  at age 100 and left the college $7 million.  ...  Read more

5 Trends Reshaping Nonprofit Sector

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Here’s some food for the brain if you have some spare time over the Thanksgiving holiday.  Agitator readers outside the US, set it aside for your next long weekend. You won’t raise more money tomorrow from reading this report, but it might help you make better sense of the context ...  Read more

Best Nonprofit Taglines Announced

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Getting Attention blogger Nancy Schwartz today announced the 2009 winners of her annual "Nonprofit Taglines Awards" competition. More than 4,800 nonprofit professionals voted on sixty finalists from 1,702 entries. Says Nancy: "The awards program is designed to encourage nonprofits ...  Read more

Help Direct Google’s $10 Million

Monday, October 5th, 2009

Over a year ago, Google launched Project 10^100, issuing a worldwide call for "ideas to change the world." Over 150,000 ideas were submitted, from which Google has synthesized sixteen key themes, such as … Help social entrepreneurs drive change. Make government more ...  Read more

Giving: A Luxury Or A Need?

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Yesterday The Agitator asked how donors might be sizing up their financial situation these days, given that some surveys indicate increasing optimism about the economy. Is the glass half-empty, or half-full? Here’s an article from the Washington Post that looks more anecdotally at the ...  Read more

Glass Half-Full, Or Half-Empty?

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Recent surveys on consumer confidence and expectations about the economy will separate optimistic fundraisers from the pessimists. Typical of what I’m seeing is this survey released last week by Harris Interactive. It reports that only 24% of Americans see their own household’s ...  Read more

Anyone Excited Yet?

Monday, August 24th, 2009

In case you headed to the beach early last Friday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told a financial conference that the economy — U.S. and globally — is on the verge of growing again. As reported here in the NY TImes, despite his upbeat tone, he did say the recovery would be ...  Read more

Kid Philanthropy

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Here’s a great story from the Washington Post about young people — ages like 11, 12, and 13 — and their fundraising activities. Zach Bonner set out to help homeless kids in his area of Florida. Now his Little Red Wagon Foundation has generated 27 trailer trucks of aid, received a ...  Read more

Data Visualization

Monday, July 20th, 2009

Sounds like something you don’t want to do, right? Wrong! Seeing data is pretty cool. The Foundation Center last week launched "Philanthropy In/Sight", a data visualization platform designed for grantmakers or anyone seeking to understand the impact of philanthropy throughout the ...  Read more