by Marc A. Pitman | Nov 6, 2007 | Fundraising Secrets
In Fundraising Secret #5: Use Blue Ink, I encouraged you to enhance your direct mail with a simple bit of color. Another oft overlooked tool in fundraising letters is the P.S. Postscripts are so important to fundraising letters, I often tell seminar attendees that...
by Marc A. Pitman | Oct 31, 2007 | 2. Engage
Nancy Schwartz at the Getting Attention Blog has a terrific post about the .media habits of people aged 12-24 and 25-50. Check read through the summary and see if it can help your fundraising and the way you interact with your donors and pre-donors. I bet alumni...
by Marc A. Pitman | Oct 25, 2007 | Odd
This is too odd a tale to be made up. Robbing a nonprofit? An employee of World Relief shooting someone? Especially when World Relief is part of the National Association of Evangelicals? Here’s the entire blurb as seen in today’s daily by the Chronicle of...
by Marc A. Pitman | Oct 25, 2007 | 2. Engage
The Chronicle on Philanthropy had a brief article this week about the growing practice of paying volunteers: Retired People Demand Pay for Volunteering at Charities. Huh? If you pay…doesn’t that make them employees? I thought the lack of pay was the...
by Marc A. Pitman | Oct 24, 2007 | 2. Engage
Ellen Goodman has a great editorial on the Al Gore Population. Here’s a brief part of the editorial: As a country, we are at the beginning of an enormous transition. Under the old compact, sixtysomethings were supposed to get out of the way and out of work. They...
