by Marc A. Pitman | Jul 25, 2008 | Donor Evangelists
Sue Hoye over at the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s Prospecting blog offers disturbing statistics about donor experiences with nonprofits. The Great American Donor Survey, conducted by Campbell Rinker, a marketing research company in Valencia, Calif., that...
by Marc A. Pitman | Jul 23, 2008 | Fundraising Secrets, Samples & Tools
I promised to provide very practical advice. Here’s a quick tip that will improve virtually all your written communications: fold your letters so the donor names shows up when they open the envelope. This simple technique is powerful. Studies and experience show...
by Marc A. Pitman | Jul 22, 2008 | Ask Without Fear! products
Well, my intended guest Stephen Nill, founder and CEO of CharityChannel.com was embroiled in nasty network outages that kept him from being on the show. I guess this was bound to happen with a live radio show! 🙂 So I took the unexpected time to wax eloquent on...
by Marc A. Pitman | Jul 22, 2008 | 3. Ask
Estimated giving in 2007 grew about 3.9 percent from the previous year according to a recent press release from Giving USA, a group that has measured these statistics for decades. It appears that Americans gave about $306.39 billion. This in a year that had rising gas...
by Marc A. Pitman | Jul 21, 2008 | 2. Engage, Odd, Stories
Here’s another story in the growing collection of unassuming people that become noteworthy philanthropists by leaving millions of dollars to charity. The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that James Ebbert, the son of a sharecropper, left $10 million to...
