File under “fun”

A while ago I was sitting around thinking about all the cool twitter apps we SHOULD have because they would be quite handy… I’d also like to give @javaj9 and @unmarketing a bit of credit for the inspiration… Feel free to add your into the comments… SweetTweets: shows you your most popular tweets of all [...]

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10 Ways to Keep Your Donors at the Heart of it All

You’re entering the busiest time of year in fundraising. Which means, so is everyone else. Everyone is bombarding your donors with their messages, their missions and their important news… In other words, you need to be different, better and more important to your donor than everyone else to ensure you get heard. With that in [...]

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It starts with a conversation.

At times I feel slightly tired of myself saying over and over, “We don’t know what it will cost to do _______, we need to talk to you about the why’s, the how’s, the who’s, the what if’s and the want’s first… we need to have a conversation.” “What do you mean… con-ver-sa-tion?” “You know… [...]

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Time for a break

It’s the middle of July – otherwise known as “the hot and hazy days of summer” here in Ontario. You, our readers, and you, our clients have given us a lot to think about – and work on – in the first half of 2011. Some highlights for us have been: - Creating custom essential [...]

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Are we being clear?

What happened to the concept speaking and writing plainly? Recently I sat on an awards committee where part of my role was to review the all of the applications… but I realized (especially after having to read 1 paragraph like 6 times) that somewhere we have lost our way. I’ve sat in boardrooms, I’ve read [...]

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Holy Beep!

Holy Beep! Successful projects rock. And while it does feel a bit like beeping our own horn, when we celebrate our success here at Agents of Good, it is all the more awesome because in our work, it also means that the world is a little bit of a better place. And in the case [...]

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What Book Has Changed Your (Professional) Life?

Recently Nancy Schwartz asked this question on her blog and as part of the Nonprofit Blog Carnival and after a few twitter dm’s, she convinced me to write about my selection. This tough because I am more of a marketing fellow than a fundraiser like Jen, so I tend to read a lot of both. [...]

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Not a buzzword

If, and this is a very big if, if I wore a bonnet, I’d have a bee in it. A few weeks ago I asked a question on Linkedin, “Simple question today: when i say “donor centered” – what charity, agency or consultant do you think of ” The results were interesting and insightful and [...]

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Dear Donors

The best blog posts are the ones you don’t need to write yourself. They are even better when they are written by someone who you admire and look to as a gut check and reminder that what you do every day, you are doing right. Today’s post comes via Tom Ahern – and if you [...]

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Ten things we’ve learned from being Agents of Good

Our great pal and uber-passionate fundraiser, Josh Bowman who works along side the great folks at Second Harvest in Toronto has the market covered in Top Ten lists on his blog. This month he has been posting Top Ten lists from some of other favourite friends, bloggers and colleagues and we are honoured to be [...]

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