by Bill Jacobs | Aug 7, 2014 | Non-profit, volunteer satisfaction
Go to any fundraising conference these days, and I will bet you a $2-bill that someone will be presenting that the best way of lifting your donors’ performance is by inviting them to volunteer. We’ve done a couple of research projects with volunteers, and I’m not so...
by Bill Jacobs | Jul 9, 2014 | Direct Mail, Major Donors
What? I know, most of our blogs address the unsustainable trends in fundraising, particularly in the area of direct mail acquisition. However, recently I completed an analysis that was so surprising, that it might breathe some new life. The graph below shows the...
by Bill Jacobs | Jun 3, 2014 | Agency
Check out this graph from Atlantic Monthly. I’ts comparing attention paid to different media (in terms of percentage of our time using that medium) to ad dollar spend in 2013. Houston, we have an unsustainable trend. Notice that the ad spend is out of balance...
by Bill Jacobs | Apr 29, 2014 | Agency
Jeff Brooks has developed into one of the icons of modern fundraising. His blogs (first Donor Power and currently The Future of Fundraising Now) and his podcast (Fundraising is Beautiful with Steven Screen) are some of the most consumed resources in the nonprofit...
by Bill Jacobs | Apr 21, 2014 | Agency
We just conducted a night of focus groups for a nonprofit organization that is fighting a chronic disease. In one of the exercises, we had the first group, which consisted of the organization’s donors, write letters to the later prospective donor group to...
