by Marc A. Pitman | Sep 3, 2010 | 2. Engage, 3. Ask, 4. Love (Stewardship), Internet & Social Media
What would you do if your nonprofit’s only web presence and online fundraising were in Facebook? I recently loaded Facebook but got this page. Apparently, Facebook was experiencing instability. While it still happens frequently with Twitter, this is rare in my...
by Marc A. Pitman | Aug 17, 2010 | 3. Ask, 4. Love (Stewardship), Fundraising Secrets, Samples & Tools
Have you checked out Google Docs? I keep finding remarkable ways to use this for collaboration! For example, an organization I work with recently ran a phonathon that didn’t involve asking for money, but asking people to advocate for our cause. Our database...
by Marc A. Pitman | Aug 10, 2010 | 1. Research, 2. Engage, 3. Ask, 4. Love (Stewardship), Fundraising Secrets, Question Marc?
Lately I’ve been getting lots of questions about how individuals can fundraise for walkathon events and many other -athons: bike-a-thons, bowl-a-thons, etc. So I wrote down some of the basic advice I was giving. When I finished, it was a 5-page article!! Rather...
by Marc A. Pitman | Jun 26, 2010 | 1. Research, 2. Engage, 3. Ask, 4. Love (Stewardship), Book Review, Objections, Stories
I’m surprised by how many nonprofit professionals see “marketing” as a bad word, a practice that is somehow beneath them. If that’s your attitude, a new book called Guerrilla Marketing for Nonprofits will help you move beyond that and become...
by Marc A. Pitman | May 24, 2010 | 1. Research, 2. Engage, 3. Ask, 4. Love (Stewardship)
As I mentioned in an earlier post, Ask Without Fear! was listed on Amazon.com two years ago. Last week I asked for suggestions about songs that dealt with Research. Some of the answers were: “The Gambler” Kenny Rogers “Private Eyes are Watching...
by Marc A. Pitman | Apr 20, 2010 | 4. Love (Stewardship), Question Marc?
Q:My organization is building an endowment fund and several people have made generous donations in the past few months. Of course, we’ve thanked them personally, but we want to find a more “public” way of recognizing them. We will include them in a...
