One (just one of many!) cool things about twitter is following people who provide constant inspiration to the work we do every day. Inspiration can come in many forms of course but when it arrives in bits of useful tips – well – it can be priceless.
I’ve been following John Bethel for some time now [...]

“Your mission, Agents of Good, is to create a thoughtful and inspiring donor-centred report.” – Interval House, September 2009
Agent Jen, Mark and John reporting for duty. Debrief and disclosure on a successful mission.

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Interval House’s 2009 Report is so donor-centred that it isn’t even an Annual Report: it’s a Gratitude Report. Our vision was donors [...]

Today I am thrilled to post this new entry by the Executive Director of the Conservation Foundation of Greater Toronto and Agent of Good operative, David Love. For those of you who know David, he needs no introduction – and there is none that I could provide that would do him the justice that his [...]

Agent Jen Love is firmly a 21st century digital gal. But I have an unexplainable predilection for Titanic references. No, I’m not talking about “I’m the king of the world”. I mean the real Titanic. The big boat. That sunk.
Here are 5 reasons I have a daily reason to reference the Titanic as a fundraiser:
1. [...]

Every time we turn around we are being told by the experts that we need to be blogging, be on twitter, dive into social media – and start making conversations and interacting with people – developing relationships. We are scolded and told we need we are not to be “all about me”. We are warned [...]

Here’s what you know: it’s way easier to raise money from people who have given to you before than to find a new donor.
Renewing your donors should take up a giant portion of your strategic focus, database analysis and campaign development.
You can raise a ton of money, gather insights into your donor file, convert your [...]

As his eyes widened, I realized it was his world that was actually expanding.
If you have a child in your life, you’ll know what I mean when I say that it’s a brave new world for our children and their use of technology. My son Mason, at 4, knows how to access YouTube, search [...]

Hopefully in the midst of all the busy work you do, you take the time to celebrate the successes and victories – not just the big ones, but the small ones too. But when was the last time you celebrated a failure? Certainly, there is more value to you in a failure than a success [...]

I’m Jen Love. And I am an Agent of Good.
In 2009 I was an undercover Agent, and I will share some of what I learned a little later in this disclosure and debrief. In 2010, I promise to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth about my life as an Agent of [...]

For the past few years, I’ve come up with a word that has helped define the year ahead and keep me on track. What’s your word of the year?