Comments on: Fundraising Secret #15: People Give to People

By: Guest Post: Twitter for Nonprofits and Fundraising by Marc Pitman

Guest Post: Twitter for Nonprofits and Fundraising by Marc Pitman — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:40:37 +0000

[...] are the point. Relationships are always the point. The most basic of fundraising secrets is that people give to people. Twitter is simply one more tool to help people connect with each other.Can your nonprofit afford [...]

By: Are you guilting people into giving? « Annual Giving Talk

Are you guilting people into giving? « Annual Giving Talk — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 14:00:34 +0000

[...] Fundraising Secret #15: People Give to People [...]

By: Socialreporter | People give to people: meet the global intermediaries

Socialreporter | People give to people: meet the global intermediaries — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:33:39 +0000

[...] personal and significant? Globalgiving offers one route. The old adage about fundraising is that people give to people. If your gift is global you may need some personable [...]

By: » Fundraising Secret #18: Be human

» Fundraising Secret #18: Be human — Tue, 20 May 2008 12:49:04 +0000

[...] isn’t it? If people give to people, why do we make our fundraising letters so boring? As Jeff points out, noone’s forcing us to [...]

By: » Be human

» Be human — Thu, 08 May 2008 19:49:30 +0000

[...] isn’t it? If people give to people, why do we make our fundraising letters so [...]

By: The Justgiving charities blog

The Justgiving charities blog — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:56:14 +0000

Person-to-Person Fundraising…

At the beginning of the month, Peter Deitz, at the About Micro Philanthropy blog, asked the question, Is Person-to-Person Fundraising Dead, or Just Getting Started?. This was part of the Giving Carnival, which he describes as:a monthly event that gathe…

By: » Fundraising Secret #16: ALWAYS be interested in the donor as a PERSON

» Fundraising Secret #16: ALWAYS be interested in the donor as a PERSON — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:34:24 +0000

[...] the spirit of the last fundraising secret People give to people, I offer Fundraising Secret #16: ALWAYS be interested in the donor as a PERSON not as a [...]

By: Marc A. Pitman

Marc A. Pitman — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:15:16 +0000

Thanks Jonathan!

Sorry the comment came so late.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:42:49 +0000

Hi Marc, thanks for the comment the other day.

Reading through your blog, I can see that I agree with a whole load of your advice. Especially on this post, which is more or less the cornerstone of our business and our US sister site [insert shameless plug to http://www.justgiving.com and http://www.firstgiving.com here].

Look forward to reading more through my RSS feeds…