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Look up now: Your donor is leaving! | No Small Change
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All things pertaining to communications, from the bunch of us at Barapani. Look up now: Your donor is leaving! Your donor is walking out of the door. And you’re so busy turning cartwheels for a potential donor that you don’t even notice. In the absence of donor attrition studies in India (if anyone is doing them, I’d love to hear all about it), here are some findings from the 2013 Fundraising Effectiveness Survey conducted by the Association of Fundraising Professionals and The Urban Institute in the US:.
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All things pertaining to communications, from the bunch of us at Barapani. The SDGs, Dobby and the Deathly Hallows. Just two days to go for the Quidditch World Cup 2015, oops, er. the UN meeting in New York to announce the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the successor to the Millennium Development Goals. The SDGs have been accused of being bloated, some of them impossible to measure, and my favourite, higgledy-piggledy. The emphasis on making every knut. Usually, once the grant ends, once the succe...
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A cold, hard look at the Ice Bucket Challenge #icebucketchallenge | No Small Change
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All things pertaining to communications, from the bunch of us at Barapani. A cold, hard look at the Ice Bucket Challenge #icebucketchallenge. Two weeks ago, I hadn’t heard of the Ice Bucket Challenge. Three days ago, I stared goggle-eyed at the tweets piling up on #icebucketchallenge. Two days ago, YouTube went crazy with vids of famous people dunking buckets of ice water on themselves. Yesterday, I watched every single one of them. Well, almost. Awww, wasn’t Bill Gates the best? But first, what is it?
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Finally! Retaining donors comes first | No Small Change
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All things pertaining to communications, from the bunch of us at Barapani. Retaining donors comes first. Donor retention jumps ahead of acquisition as a priority for non-profits, according to the just-released Nonprofit Communications Report 2015. The report, which surveyed more than 1,500 non-profits primarily in the US (a few in Canada and fewer still in the rest of the world) is indicative that non-profits are finally heading in the right direction. Acquiring new donors, and. January 20, 2015. Leave a...
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What is your donor’s creative impulse directed towards? And how does that affect your fundraising? | No Small Change
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All things pertaining to communications, from the bunch of us at Barapani. What is your donor’s creative impulse directed towards? And how does that affect your fundraising? Most human beings think of themselves as being creative. Paul Arden’s book, It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be takes a look at a human life’s creative cycle through this diagram. What is his creative impulse directed towards? Are you thinking about bringing out a generic brochure? A word of advice: Don’t! Look up...
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micro-chasms: August 2009
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Monday, 31 August 2009. I just need a way of hanging on to that feeling I get for the first five minutes when the real life we’ve returned to seems just a little bit skewed, a little bit bigger, and anything is possible. And if the house stays a little bigger, there will be room for the piano. Monday, 24 August 2009. In normal life, feeling a bit tense, irritable, overweight, under appreciated is, well, normal life. But when these emotions appear after a week of holiday frolics, it’s unacceptab...The won...
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micro-chasms: January 2010
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Friday, 29 January 2010. GUEST FRIDAY - Hazel Gould. Sleep is a precious commodity for the parents of the very young. Hours are collected like gold bars, as if we could stash them away for a rainy day; we barter on the nursery trading floor, selling midnight lullabies in exchange for lie-ins and cbeebies at dawn for breakfast. It’s a bear market, investor confidence is low, and all we really want are “just five more minutes”. Monday, 25 January 2010. Tell me on a Thursday. My husband loves change –...
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micro-chasms: Who do you think you are?
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010. Who do you think you are? A question was posed in the pub on Friday evening. It was the one of those rare spontaneous evenings where an unexpected babysitter lead to a last minute decision to head to Soho for drinks that taste much better and work much faster for the simple lack of organisation that went into them. Anyway, in this gin-fuelled hedonism granted by a small space on the heaving pavements of Dean Street, my husband posed the question. Who do you want to be? And the ...
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