by Marc A. Pitman | Sep 21, 2012 | 3. Ask
If you’re like many nonprofits, you’ve sent a fall fundraising appeal this month and you plan on sending one towards the end of the year. You might want to reconsider that plan. NPR did a great piece on political direct mail. It’s definitely worth...
by Marc A. Pitman | Sep 13, 2012 | 3. Ask, Fundraising Secrets
There have been some pretty high profile news stories of direct mail firms and telemarketers pocketing 75% to 85% of the money raised for a charity. The latest was reported yesterday on NPR reporting on a Bloomberg investigation of InfoCision’s work for...
by Marc A. Pitman | Sep 12, 2012 | 3. Ask, Education Opportunities
I’m honored to be doing a fundraising training in Lewiston, Maine today at 11:00. It’s open to Chamber members and non-members. I’m sure you can pay at the door but since lunch is included with the price, I bet they’d love a call so they can...
by Marc A. Pitman | Sep 11, 2012 | 3. Ask, Book Review, Fundraising Letters, Fundraising Secrets
Yesterday, I sent my Fundraising Kick members 3 contrarian tips on writing successful fundraising letters. Here are three more tips that seem to go against what we’d expect. These tips come from an amazing new book by Jeff Brooks called The Fundraiser’s...
by Marc A. Pitman | Sep 7, 2012 | 1. Research, 2. Engage, 3. Ask, 4. Love (Stewardship), Guest Posts, Samples & Tools
A few months ago, my colleague Pamela Grow released a new book specifically for nonprofits with a “one person” fundraising shop. This isn’t just theory for her, she actually has been successful as a one person shop. So, since I love small shops-and...
by Marc A. Pitman | Sep 4, 2012 | 3. Ask
It’s September! How are your fundraising goals going? Could you use 100 new donors by December 3rd? I know that sounds like “hype” that a snake oil salesman would use. But this isn’t hype, this a set of 12 action-oriented interviews for...
